Gravity's Rainbow (song)

Gravity's Rainbow (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Gravity's Rainbow


Artist = Klaxons
from Album = Myths of the Near Future
B-side =
Released = 27 March 2006
9 April 2007 (Re-release)
Format = 7", CD
Recorded =
Genre = New rave, Psychedelic pop, Dance-Punk
Length = 2:36
Label = Angular
Writer = Klaxons
Producer = Ant Chapman, James Ford, Erol Alkan
Certification =
Chart position = * #35 UK
Last single =
This single = "Gravity's Rainbow"
(2006)
Next single = "Atlantis to Interzone"
(2006)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternative cover
Type = Single


Lower caption = Original 7" release

Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Klaxons singles
Type = Single
Last album = "Golden Skans"
(2007)
This album = "Gravity's Rainbow"
(2007)
Next album = "It's Not Over Yet"
(2007)

"Gravity's Rainbow" is a song by British act Klaxons which appears on their album "Myths of the Near Future". It is named after Thomas Pynchon's novel of the same name. The song was first released on Angular Records as a Double A-side with "The Bouncer" in March 2006 and was limited to 500 copies on 7" vinyl only [ [http://www.klaxons.net/release.php?releaseID=1 Official Klaxons site] ] . In September 2006 it was released on 12" vinyl with three remixes of the track.

The track was re-released in 2007, with a remix from Soulwax, a new Erol Alkan-produced track "Electrickery" and a live version of the track. For the re-release of "Gravity's Rainbow" the band reshot the music video.

The track was also used in the new Tony Hawk game 'Project 8'.

The track has now been covered by rave veterans Kicks Like A Mule (Klaxons covered KLAM's "The Bouncer" on the "Xan Valleys EP"). Jamie from the band posted on KLAM's MySpace page that they "couldn't be more honoured."

The track has also been covered by The Central Band of the Royal British Legion, and in a short instrumental by Muse at Wembley Stadium on June 17th.

French electro artist Kavinsky has also made a remix version.

There are two videos for this track, the original was shot in a basement using props belonging to the band members and took in total total 72 hours to complete. Interestingly (during the babies scene) in the original video an album cover from Frankie Valli and his band the Four Seasons is shown- Klaxons later covered their track "The Night" as a b-side of their single It's Not Over Yet. The new version of Gravity's Rainbow was made to accompany the re-release of the single and includes scenes reminiscent to those in the original, this version is also one of only two Klaxons videos that feature their drummer Steffan Halperin.__NOTOC__

Track listing

Original Release

7"
# "Gravity's Rainbow" – 2:36
# "The Bouncer"

12"
# "Gravity's Rainbow" – 2:36
# "Gravity's Rainbow" (Van She remix)
# "Gravity's Rainbow" (Nightmoves remix)
# "Gravity's Rainbow" (To My Boy remix)

Re-release

CD
# "Gravity's Rainbow" – 2:36
# "Gravity's Rainbow" (Soulwax remix)

7"
# "Gravity's Rainbow" – 2:36
# "Electrickery" "produced by Erol Alkan

Etched 7"
# "Gravity's Rainbow" (Live in Glasgow)

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