Briefly renamed Spiritualized Electric Mainline,Pure Phaseexpanded on the amount of personnel involved in making a Spiritualized record, with Sean Cook joining on bass and the BalanescuQuartestadding string arrangements.The record sounds like no other as there are two mixes running together concurrently. Commenting on the album today Jason Pierce recalls:

You cant really compare this record to any other because of how we mixed it; in such an incorrect way.We mixedthe trackstwice but I couldnt decide which one I liked better so wesaidlets have them both.Both of themwere on tape so we spent hours cutting them into usable sections. If you run two things together in parallel you get this kind ofHawkwindeffect (phase), which gets deeper as they drift away from being locked,so we had to keep re-locking on a bass drum everyeight or ten bars and it took forever.