This is a limited edition EP of tracks recorded during the "Up The Downstair" sessions.

This is the original mix without the re-recorded drum parts.

Up the Downstair feels noticeably different in tone from On the Sunday of Life -- the humor is nearly invisible, if present at all, and the focus is more explicitly up to date in keeping with Steven Wilson's long-stated belief that progressive music means incorporating the now instead of rehashing what progressive was.

This is the original and extremely rare US C & S Records release with "Stars Die" incorporated into the track list in place of the track "Prepare Yourself". Also, the individual "movements" of the two phases of the title track are titled and separately tracked.

Complete 40 minute "Moonloop" improvisation.

This fourth and final Transmission PT information service release (only available to subscribers) contains a complete improvisation from 1994, part of which was used as the basis for The Sky Moves Sideways era track "Moonloop".

Originally released in 1998 as a limited-edition double 10", Metananoia collects several instrumental studio jams Porcupine Tree recorded during the 1995-1996 sessions for its Signify album.

Bad News, the parody of a bad heavy metal band, began as a 1982 episode (pre-This Is Spinal Tap) from the Comic Strip, an English comedy troupe whose members numbered three of the four Young Ones (Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmonson, and Nigel Planer) and writer Peter Richardson (other members included Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders).

Originally released on Glitterhouse in Europe in 1991 but only seeing an American issue two years later as Caroline took advantage of the band's newfound major-label status, 25........Tab for many remains the high point of Monster Magnet as extreme downer psych/space rock.

The music is vibrantly spacey while maintaining a solid rock presence. Grinding guitars crash with glee, alternating between overtly nasty guitar assaults and delicately strummed acoustic guitar strains.

Played and recorded on vintage instruments and equipment, Farflung's fourth album, The Belief Module, continues to reflect their fascination with Krautrock and space-rock, with a harder edge by way of Hawkwind.

In short: a great album - the songs are permanently switching between heavy and powerful rock-sequences - pushed forward by huge riffs - and inventive, strange and atmospheric soundscapes.

From Los Angeles, Farflung plays a high energy, often punkish brand of spacerock that is more like a stealth bomber than an acid trip.

A hidden gem among the many Parliament/Funkadelic-affiliated albums released during the mid- to late '70s, Eddie Hazel's only official solo album may not sport any perennial classics and may be a bit short on content, yet it became incredibly revered in subsequent years following its quiet release.