Guerolito is the first remix album

Remix album

A remix album is an album consisting mostly of remixes or re-recorded versions of a music artists' earlier released material.One of the earliest remix albums was 1971's Aerial Pandemonium Ballet by Harry Nilsson, which was released by Nilsson after the successes of Everybody's Talkin and The Point!...

 by Beck

Beck

Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...

, released in December 2005. It features all of the songs from regular edition of Guero

Guero

Guero is the ninth studio album by American alternative rock artist Beck, first released in March 2005 on Interscope Records. It debuted on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart at #2 , and in the UK at #15 . To date, this is Beck's highest charting CD...

in remixed forms by a variety of artists, with the addition of "Clap Hands", originally found on the special limited edition of Guero.

Guerolito reached #191 on the Billboard charts. As of July 2008, Guerolito has sold 76,000 copies in the United States.

Background

In an interview with Wired magazine in September 2006, Beck challenged other artists to follow his lead—set by Guerolito—in abandoning the traditional concept of an album release:

Track listing

All songs were written by Beck Hansen and The Dust Brothers

Dust Brothers

The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles, California based, Grammy Award winning producers, E.Z. Mike and King Gizmo , famous for their sample-based music in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work on the albums Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Odelay by Beck, and the soundtrack to...

, except where noted.

1. "Ghost Range" (Hansen, Dust Brothers, Beastie Boys
   Beastie Boys
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   ) – 4:24
   • "E-Pro
     E-Pro
     "E-Pro" is the opening track on Beck's 2005 album Guero. It was released as the lead single from the album in March 2005. The song was Beck's second #1 on the Modern Rock chart and his first in eleven years...
     
     " remix by Homelife
2. "Qué Onda Guero" – 2:29
   • Islands
     Islands (band)
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      remix
3. "Girl
   Girl (Beck song)
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   " – 3:53
   • Octet remix
   • Originally released in the special edition CD/DVD package of Guero
     Guero
     Guero is the ninth studio album by American alternative rock artist Beck, first released in March 2005 on Interscope Records. It debuted on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart at #2 , and in the UK at #15 . To date, this is Beck's highest charting CD...
     
     
4. "Heaven Hammer" (Hansen, Dust Brothers, Marcos Vinicius de Moraes, Carlos Eduardo Lyra) – 4:54
   • "Missing" remix by Air
5. "Shake Shake Tambourine" (Hansen, Dust Brothers, Eugene Blacknell) – 3:37
   • "Black Tambourine" remix by Ad-Rock
6. "Terremoto Tempo" (Hansen, Dust Brothers, Mark Adams, Steve Washington, Daniel Webster, Mark Hicks) – 3:47
   • "Earthquake Weather" remix by Mario C
     Mario Caldato Jr.
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7. "Ghettochip Malfunction" – 2:39
   • "Hell Yes" remix by 8-Bit
   • Originally released on the Hell Yes EP.
8. "Broken Drum" (Hansen) – 5:36
   • Boards of Canada
     Boards of Canada
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      remix
   • Originally released in the special edition CD/DVD package of Guero
9. "Scarecrow" – 4:37
   • El-P remix
10. "Wish Coin" (Hansen, Dust Brothers, Jack White
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    ) – 3:44
    • "Go It Alone" remix by Diplo
11. "Farewell Ride" (Hansen) – 4:51
    • Subtle
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       remix
12. "Rental Car" – 2:59
    • John King
      Dust Brothers
      The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles, California based, Grammy Award winning producers, E.Z. Mike and King Gizmo , famous for their sample-based music in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work on the albums Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Odelay by Beck, and the soundtrack to...
      
       remix
13. "Emergency Exit" – 3:18
    • Th' Corn Gangg
      Th' Corn Gangg
      Th' Corn Gangg is an indie pop/hip hop band from Montreal, Canada. The band was founded by Jamie Thompson and Nicholas Thorburn as a direct off-shoot project of The Unicorns several months prior to their December 2004 break-up, but prior to the formation of Islands by those same two musicians.Th'...
      
       remix
14. "Clap Hands" – 3:19
    • Originally released in the special edition CD/DVD package of Guero

Bonus tracks on UK release

15. "Fax Machine Anthem (Hell Yes)" – 3:07
    • Dizzee Rascal
      Dizzee Rascal
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       remix
    • Originally released in the special edition CD/DVD package of Guero
16. "Qué Onda Guero" – 4:44
    • Nortec Collective
      Nortec Collective
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      remix