King Crimson - People (Adrian And Robert Mix)

Stormy Mundy Selection (Occasional Series - Acts of Random Archive Rummaging) During the making of an album, the direction of a track is open to all sorts of possibilities. More drums? More guitar? More of this, less of that, and so on. During the making of THRAK, there were hundreds of individual tracks available on the mixing desk waiting for a choice to be made. This version of People, with isolated guitars, taken from the dance mix David Bottrill made at the time of the THRAK sessions, imagines what might have happened if a different choice had been made to the one they eventually took. Lifting the song’s outro from the rest of the band, Belew and Fripp leave the group’s orbit and are set adrift to float off into their own ambient space. This video is an edited extract from the latest Stormy Mundy Selection, as featured on