{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2018}} {{Infobox album | name = The Mosquito Control EP | type = EP | artist = Isis | cover = Isis_Mosquito-Control.jpg | alt = | released = October 1998 | recorded = August 1998 | venue = | studio = | genre = Sludge metal, doom metal | length = 28:28 | label = Escape Artist<br /><small>(EA03.0)<br />(EA03.2) (re-release)<br />(EA03.8) (re-release)</small> | producer = Isis, Kurt Ballou<ref name="stylus mag">{{cite web|last= Lee|first= Cosmo|title= Kurt Ballou - Interview - Stylus Magazine|work= Stylus Magazine|date= June 22, 2006|url= http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/interview/kurt-ballou.htm|access-date= November 12, 2011|archive-date= April 20, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170420021800/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/interview/kurt-ballou.htm|url-status= dead}}</ref> | prev_title = Demo | prev_year = 1998 | next_title = The Red Sea | next_year = 1999 | misc = {{Extra album cover | header = Re-release cover | type = ep | cover = Isis - Mosquito Control re-release.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = The cover of the re-release. }} }}
{{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last=York|first=William|title="Mosquito Control" – Isis|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/r527613/review|publisher=allmusic|access-date=March 31, 2011}}</ref> |noprose = yes }}
'''''The Mosquito Control EP''''' is the first studio release by American post-metal band Isis, released in 1998 by Escape Artist. The piece runs fluently through all 29 minutes, and all four songs are linked through consistent bouts of chaos and lyrics glued by the metaphor of using mosquitoes as a symbol for mankind, society, and population control.
==Background== ''The Mosquito Control EP'' introduces Isis's first major theme, the mosquito. The reissue of this EP features cover art depicting control towers (the central theme of ''Celestial'').{{original research inline|date=May 2011}}
Although it represents Isis' first studio release, it is actually their third recording as a group after two demo productions. The EP was the last recording containing founding member Chris Mereschuk, and Randy Larson left the band shortly before its recording;<ref name="Self-Titled Turner interview" /> as such, “[t]here are things on this record that certainly would not {{sic|have}} been written were it not for those people, and it represented a set of voices that was no longer apparent in the subsequent recordings.”<ref name="Self-Titled Turner interview" /> Sonically, Aaron Turner feels that Isis “were starting to find [their] voice” with the release, citing “Life Under the Swatter” as “the beginning of a path on which we would synthesize heavy riffing with complex rhythmic patterns and textural/subdued passages”.<ref name="Self-Titled Turner interview" />
The recording process cost as little as $600 and lasted between three and four days. The first mix was deemed of insufficient quality, so a remastering was undertaken in 2002.<ref name="Self-Titled Turner interview" /> In 2018, a remastered version was released with new artwork under Hydra Head.<ref name="Hydra Head Merchtable Preorder"/>
"Relocation Swarm" features dialogue sampled from ''Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me''.
==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = ''The Mosquito Control EP'' | title1 = Poison Eggs | note1 = {{audio|Isis_-_Poison_Eggs_(Edit).ogg|sample}} | writer1 = Isis | length1 = 6:42 | title2 = Life Under the Swatter | writer2 = Isis | length2 = 5:50 | title3 = Hive Destruction | writer3 = Isis | length3 = 4:09 | title4 = Relocation Swarm | writer4 = Isis | length4 = 11:47 | total_length = 28:28 }} {{track listing | headline = Japanese edition bonus track | title1 = Streetcleaner | writer1 = Green, Neville, Broadrick | length1 = 5:42 }}
==Personnel== {{col-begin|width=50%}} {{col-break}} ;Band members<ref name=liner>{{cite AV media notes |title= Mosquito Control|others= Isis|year= 1998|publisher= Escape Artist Recordings|id= EA3.0}}</ref> * Jeff Caxide – bass guitar * Aaron Harris – drums * Chris Mereschuk – electronics, vocals * Aaron Turner – guitar, vocals, design, assembly {{col-break}} ;Other personnel<ref name=liner /> * Kurt Ballou – audio engineering, producing * Dave Merullo – mastering, audio editing {{col-end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Self-Titled Turner interview">{{cite web|title=PRIMER: Aaron Turner Revisits Isis' Entire Catalog|url=https://www.self-titledmag.com/primer-aaron-turner-revisits-isis-entire-catalog-and-shares-a-project-by-project-breakdown-of-whats-on-tap-next/|work=Self-Titled|publisher=Pop Mart Media|access-date=May 10, 2011|date=June 4, 2010}}</ref> <ref name="Hydra Head Merchtable Preorder">{{cite web|title=Hydra Head Merchtable The Mosquito Control reissue|url=https://hydrahead.merchtable.com/artists/isis/isis-mosquito-control-vinyl-ep-reissue/?no_redirect=true}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://isishydrahead.bandcamp.com/album/the-mosquito-control-ep-reissue ''The Mosquito Control EP''] at Bandcamp (streamed copy where licensed)
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