Vapor Transmission by Orgy

Vapor Transmission, Orgy's second album, came out on Reprise on October 10, 2000, with Josh Abraham producing. The Los Angeles band stick close to the synthetic industrial rock of Candyass, but this time the guitars back off a notch and the melodies step forward, with Jay Gordon's cool croon riding over Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck's guitars, Paige Haley's bass and Bobby Hewitt's drums.

"Fiction (Dreams in Digital)" is the hit, a sleek, pulsing cyber-anthem that climbed to number 6 on the modern rock chart. "Opticon" followed, built partly on a drum sample Gordon says came from Billy Squier's "The Stroke", and it landed on the soundtrack of the 2001 horror film Valentine. The first 1000 copies hid a bonus track, "The Spectrum", tucked away inside the closer, "Where's Gerrold".

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