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Happy holidays from Thom Yorke! His gift to us? Not something bought at an evil capitalist chain store, oh no. It's remixes of tracks from his solo debut, The Eraser, available for free download from the album's site. (There are no plans to release the remixes in any other format at the moment.)

Today on Radiohead's blog Dead Air Space, Yorke wrote:

"For anyone who has heard The Eraser, there are some remixes coming.

Yes.

I got excited. I've been listening through. I mean. There's some freaky shit.

They may start appearing soon. Gradually. Briefly.

Just a taste. And then gone."

Right now, only two have been posted, but it looks like there are more to come (four more, if the squiggly drawings of buildings you have to click on to access the remixes are to be believed). We hope that the Four Tet remix of "Atoms for Peace" finally sees the light of day this way.

Yorke's XL Recordings labelmates Various take on "Analyse", outfitting the skeletal track with stutters, bleeps and video game gunshots. Yes, it's another one of the mysterious duo's trademark dystopian creations.

On Dead Air Space, Yorke calls it "a deranged twist of 'Analyse' by Various Productions", adding, "i got into them after hearing Hater off their Lp The World is Gone."

English DJ/producer Surgeon crafts an unsettling club banger out of "The Clock", building on the original's broken garage undercurrent and amping up the throb.

"He has turned it into something really hard," Yorke writes. "And disco.

Well what i call disco anyhow.

It made me very proud.

I hope it gets played in a club somewhere.

Not that i get out much nowadays."

The shut-in did make it out to perform "The Clock" on the TV show "Later With Jools Holland", which was broadcast on December 1. The performance can be seen here.

And as previously reported, Yorke appears on Nigel Godrich's internet television show "From the Basement", premiering on a computer near you next week. He performs two brand new Radiohead songs, "Videotape" and "Down Is the New Up". Stay tuned to Pitchfork News for more information about the show--including an interview with Godrich.