The album was first released in 1998 on the low budget label Eye Q, but they went bust shortly after. It then became relatively hard to find, until "the master tapes mysteriously appeared on Chemikal Underground's doorstep".[4] The album was re-released on the Chemikal Underground label in 2001, with an additional two tracks forming the basis for a second CD of Mogwai Fear Satan remixes, from My Bloody Valentine, and μ-Ziq.[5] In 1998, the album was licensed by Eye-Q to the now defunct label, Jetset. The version Jetset released contained all of the Mogwai Fear Satan remixes on a second disc.
Track listing
The following corresponds to the 1998 double CD release.[6] Single CD and double/triple vinyl releases also exist.
^Berman, Stuart (27 November 2012). "Mogwai – A Wrenched and Virile Lore". Pitchfork. Retrieved 27 November 2012. But despite its impressive cast and elaborate double-CD presentation, Dead Pig ultimately sounded like random attempts at applying Mogwai's metallic noise to the darker strains of electronic music of the era (drill and bass, digital hardcore), to the point of using its entire second disc to determine who could produce the most gonzo version of the band's epic signature track "Mogwai Fear Satan". (Shields' titanic take won in a landslide.)
