Serj Tankian And Jimmy Urine’s Long-Awaited Collaborative Fuktronic LP To See April 2020 Record Store Day Vinyl Release

Photo: Raymond Flotat

System of a Down lead vocalist Serj Tankian and Mindless Self Indulgence lead singer Jimmy Urine have announced a release date for their long-awaited Fuktronic LP. It will drop on vinyl on April 18 in celebration of Record Store Day.

The 12-track record was conceived as the ultimate electronic soundtrack for one-of-a-kind British Gangster Film. “Our dynamic is very chill, which is why we do this kind of stuff, especially because, with Fuktronic, it’s electronic-type soundtrack music, which we’ve both been doing a lot of on our own,” Urine said of the project. “Fuktronic is a 12-track journey; four instrumentals and eight tracks featuring original scripted and voice-acted dialogue that chronicle the trials and tribulations of a fresh-out-of-prison British gangster who hasn’t learned his lesson.”

Tankian first referenced Fuktronic in an interview with KROQ DJ Stryker in July 2012 before playing short set promoting his third studio album, Harakiri. This will be his first solo album since 2013’s Orca Sympony No. 1 and Jazz-Iz-Christ.

Record Store Day is a biannual event that started in 2008 and has since occurred on one Saturday in April and on Black Friday each year. Its purpose is to celebrate and support the culture of the independently-owned record store. Other bands participating in Record Store Day release events include Denzel Curry, Brandi Carlile and Mac DeMarco, releasing series of covers and unreleased demos, as well as the late Chuck Mosley, who will have his first-ever live album released in honor of his passing.

Curry’s released include covers of Rage Against the Machine’s “Bulls on Parade” and Bad Brains’ “I Against I.” Carlile will be dropping covers of Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” and “Searching With My Good Eye Closed.” DeMarco is dropping previously unreleased demos.

The Fuktronic album will be a limited release of 2,500 individually-numbered copies on blue marbled vinyl.

Track listing:

  1. Chase
  2. Parole
  3. Shot
  4. Frenchy
  5. Guns
  6. Ladies
  7. Kit Kat Klub
  8. Russian
  9. TTFO
  10. Flight
  11. Fail
  12. Credits

Photo Credit: Mauricio Alvarado

Luke Hanson: Born, raised and currently residing in up-and-coming Birmingham, Alabama (I promise!), with stops along the way in South Carolina and Oregon, I'm new to mxdwn, taking on the role of Monday Weekly News Writer. I have degrees in environmental studies and public health and am currently finishing up another in journalism. I've wanted to write about music since 2000 and am thrilled to have this opportunity with mxdwn.
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