Let's Go Swimming

Let's Go Swimming is the last track of World of Echo at 2:42, and was also released in 1986 as a 12-inch single on Upside and Rough Trade and on Logarythm as LR-1002-1, with dub mixes Gulf Stream Dub, Puppy Surf Dub and Coastal Dub. A fan page credits Walter Gibbons with the dubs, while a search snippet attributes two of them to Russell himself, so that is unresolved. Bandcamp Daily calls it probably the closest to a straight-up dance record Russell released under his own name, made at the same time as World of Echo, with a previously unreleased 11-minute piece, Make 1, 2, on the reissue.

David Toop writes that Let's Go Swimming, Go Bang! #5 and Schoolbell/Treehouse still push back the boundaries of dance, and, as paraphrased from a snippet of an interview, Russell described it as a futuristic summer record that some DJs said nobody would ever play. The Arts Desk says it failed to impress DJs on release and has gained appeal over time. A version from the June 1984 concert at Experimental Intermedia is on the 2025 live album Sketches for World of Echo, and Corn contains a sequel, See My Brother, He's Jumping Out (Let's Go Swimming #2). Gary Lucas covered it on Bad Boys of the Arctic in 1994. The upload on hypersongs names no version, so whether it is the 12-inch, the album cut or a dub could not be told.