Pitchfork

Book your reservations now, revelers: former James Addiction/Porno for Pyros frontman Perry Farrell has a party planned that should make all that new rave hoopla look like your 1st grade Chuck E. Cheese's birthday non-bash. It's called Satellite Party, and as Farrell enthused to Pitchfork last fall, "it could be the best work I've ever done."

Satellite Party transmit their debut full-length-- a concept record, titled Ultra Payloaded Satellite Party, about partying it up on a satellite orbiting the Earth-- on May 15 (Columbia). The eleven-track set features contributions from a whole mess of folks, including New Order bassist Peter Hook, Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea and John Frusciante, Thievery Corporation, film composer Harry Gregson-Williams, and the mysterious pop product known only as Fergie.

Stoners will be especially pleased to learn that Jim Morrison makes an appearance on Ultra Payloaded as well: Farrell unearthed a previously unheard Morrison spoken-word vocal for the album's closing track, "Woman in the Window". Other Party jams include "Celebrate", "Awesome", "Mr. Sunshine", and first single "Wish Upon a Dog Star".

As for the disc's sound, thus spake Farrell: "[It's] this great hybrid of sound, using electronics and hip hop beats and the power and strength of rock'n'roll, and even symphony."

"We know that [2007] is our year," Farrell also told Pitchfork last October, so expect plenty of touring, late night TV appearances, promotional events, and partying. For now, the Party is slated to rock the ESPN Winter X-Games tomorrow (January 25) in Aspen, Colorado-- and don't be surprised to find them at Farrell's own Lollapalooza this summer.

Ultra Payloaded Satellite Party:

01 Wish Upon a Dog Star
02 Celebrate
03 Hard Life Easy
04 Kinky
05 The Solutionists
06 Awesome
07 Mr. Sunshine
08 Insanity Rains
09 Milky Ave
10 Ultra Payloaded Satellite Party
11 Woman in the Window [ft. Jim Morrison]