Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai

Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai is a collaborative remix album by Mentallo & The Fixer and Mainesthai, released in 1994 by Zoth Ommog Records.[1][2][3]

Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai
Remix album by Mentallo & The Fixer and Mainesthai
Released	1994
Studio	The Slum (Austin, Texas)
Genre	Electro-industrial
Length	56:02
Label	Zoth Ommog
Producer	Dwayne Dassing Gary Dassing Michael Greene
Mentallo & The Fixer chronology
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1994) Meets Mainesthai (1994) Continuum (1995)
Mainesthai chronology
Out to Lunch (1994) Meets Mainesthai (1994) A Collection of Rare, Unreleased & Remastered (2012)
Alternative cover
1998 remaster cover

Music

The band originally sent the recording sessions that comprised Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai to Zoth Ommog as a work in progress and the album was released early before it could meet the band's approval. On June 23, 1998 the album was re-released by Metropolis Records in remastered form with an alternate track listing that replaces several of the songs on the original issue.[4][5][6]

Reception

In their review of Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai, Ink 19 commended the remixes for improving the originals and commented that the album would be a good introduction to Mentallo & The Fixer for new listeners.[7] Sonic Boom gave the album a positive review and noting the standouts as being the "Basket Case remix of 'Wartime' with its brutal cadence and the Tribulation mix of 'Power Struggle' with all of its Demon Seed samples."[5]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Rapid Suffocation" (Lesionary Mix)	Dwayne Dassing Gary Dassing	6:21
2.	"Black Illusion" (Immaculate)	Dassing Dassing	5:15
3.	"Grim Reality" (Malnourished)	Dassing Dassing	7:43
4.	"Battered States of Euphoria" (Acoustical)	Dassing Dassing	3:19
5.	"Wartime" (Basket Case)	Dassing Dassing Michael Greene	4:58
6.	"Spectral" (Angel of Death Mix)	Dassing Dassing Greene	4:20
7.	"Powerstruggle" (Tribulation)	Dassing Dassing	2:47
8.	"Therapy" (Molestation Mix)	Dassing Dassing Greene	6:17
9.	"Exit" (Lesionary Mix)	Dassing Dassing Greene	9:26
22.	"Silence"		1:09
23.	"Silence"		3:27

Notes

• Tracks 10–21 consist of five seconds of silence each.

1998 remaster track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Rapid Suffocation" (Lesionary Mix)	Gary Dassing	6:22
2.	"Decomposed" (Grimpen Ward)	Gary Dassing	4:29
3.	"Bleek Seclusion" (Immaculation)	Dwayne Dassing	5:16
4.	"Sacrilege" (Angel of Death Mix)	Dwayne Dassing Gary Dassing	7:12
5.	"Grim Reality" (Malnourished)	Dwayne Dassing	7:46
6.	"Battered States of Euphoria" (Acoustical)	Gary Dassing	3:20
7.	"Wartime" (The Basket Case Mix)	Dwayne Dassing Michael Greene	5:00
8.	"Spectral" (Angel of Death Mix)	Dwayne Dassing	4:21
9.	"Powerstruggle" (Tribulation)	Dwayne Dassing	2:48
10.	"Therapy" (session)	Dwayne Dassing	1:08
11.	"Therapy" (Molestation Mix)	Michael Greene	15:46
12.	"Y" (Mama's Crazy Kitchen Mix)	Dwayne Dassing Gary Dassing Michael Greene	7:02
13.	"Exit" (Stage Left)	Dwayne Dassing Gary Dassing Michael Greene	5:13

Personnel

Adapted from the Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai liner notes.[8]

Musicians

• Dwayne Dassing (as The Fixer) – programming, producer, engineering and mixing
• Gary Dassing (as Mentallo) – programming, producer, engineering and mixing
• Michael Greene – vocals, producer, engineering and mixing (5, 6, 8, 9)

Production and design

• Ric Laciak – recording (23)
• André Menge (as Menge Design Group) – cover art
• Chris Spoonts – mastering

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Germany	1994	Zoth Ommog	CD	ZOT 119
United States	1998	Metropolis		MET 088

References

1. "Mentallo & the Fixer: Meets Mainesthai > Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
2. Bush, John. "Mentallo & the Fixer > Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
3. Zlaya Zgombic, Zlatko (August 28, 2017). "Mentallo and The Fixer - Rearranging Molecules: Interview With Gary Dassing of Mentallo and The Fixer". Wire Trap. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
4. Alexander, Kim Ann (June 30, 1997). "An Evening With Mentallo & Fixer". Last Sigh Magazine. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
5. Christian, Chris (December 1, 1996). "Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai: s/t". Sonic Boom. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
6. Barnhart, Becky (1999). "Schwann Spectrum". Schwann Spectrum. Stereophile, Incorporated. 9 (2): 173. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
7. West, Drew (November 25, 1998). "Mentallo and the Fixer: Mentallo and the Fixer Meets Mainesthai". Ink 19. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
8. Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai (booklet). Mentallo & The Fixer. Hesse, Germany: Zoth Ommog Records. 1994.CS1 maint: others (link)

External links

• Meets Mainesthai at Discogs (list of releases)