KID Recordings teams up with acclaimed indie/synth-pop band Burnside Project to release the 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition of the band’s celebrated 2003 studio album, 'The Networks, The Circuits, The Streams, The Harmonies'.

The newly expanded 22-track collection features the classic original album, alongside bonus tracks, remixes and previously unreleased material including: a cover of Electronic’s seminal 1990 hit "Getting Away With It" with genre-hopping Brooklynite duo Sunrise HWY (aka Amy Douglas and Tim Wagner); "He Never Knew The Benefits Of Caffeine (Sack International Remix)” which was reimagined by Grammy-winning producer Peter Wade (MNDR), renowned WFMU DJ Duane Harriott, and famed music supervisor Alec Deruggerio; and a 2023 Pride Remix of their breakout single "Cue The Pulse To Begin". The song became a sync powerhouse appearing in a number of movies and TV shows, most notably Showtime’s groundbreaking series 'Queer As Folk', which unexpectedly transformed the quirky electronic alt-pop act into accidental LGBTQ+ cult heroes and allies.

Rewind back to 2002, before bands like The Postal Service, Cut Copy and LCD Soundsystem normalized indie guitars over electronic beats; a few recent NYC transplants turned in an album to indie stalwart Bar/None Records that adventurously combined Pavement-influenced songwriting, indie guitar riffs, breakbeat electronica, ‘80s synth lines, ‘90s house beats and more. The band was Burnside Project, and the album was 2003’s innovative 'The Networks, The Circuits, The Streams, The Harmonies.' Originally a duo of multi-instrumentalists (Richard Jankovich and Gerald Hammill), the group expanded to a trio with the addition of Paul Searing by the time the album was released.

The LP received enthusiastic press coverage from SPIN, The FADER and Rolling Stone (Editor’s Choice) and cosigns from tastemakers like filmmaker Cameron Crowe ('Almost Famous', 'Singles'), DJ John Richards (KEXP) and novelist Rick Moody (The Ice Storm). Even Pitchfork had to admit the songs were “catchy” and that “you can end up shaking your ass.”

Burnside Project heavily supported their genre-blurring opus with a string of successful US live dates playing alongside both critically acclaimed artists and newer buzz bands including The Notwist, Styrofoam, Death from Above 1979, HOME, Antietam and even ‘80s new wave icons Modern English.

A year later the band signed to Sony/DefSTAR and went on a sold-out tour of Japan where “Cue The Pulse To Begin” catapulted into the Top 30. They dropped another album on Bar/None in 2005 (‘The Finest Example Is You’) but by 2006, unable to translate their critical support into a sustainable career, they broke up. The concept of “indie synth-pop” would become codified by the late 2000s thanks to artists like MGMT, Passion Pit, Empire Of The Sun and more. Today, the idea of combining sparkling indie guitars over synthy ‘80s beats and contemporary dance grooves is so common it's almost hard to imagine this sound was once considered novel.