The Outpost

City Of Angels Sampler is a sampler CD released in 1997 for the Outpost label. It's a brief look at what the label represented in 1997, which included music by The Crystal Method, Uberzone, Chop Shop, and Mephisto Odyssey.

In the summer of 1881, Lt. Adolphus Greely of the Fifth United States Cavalry and a crew of twenty-one men set out on the Proteus to explore the then relatively-unknown Arctic Circle. During their three-year journey, the Lady Franklin Bay expedition, as it came to be known, was meant to ascertain new astronomical data, to establish an observation station, and to record other meteorological data. And while they did accomplish those tasks, the crew of the Proteus will instead forever be remembered for the catastrophe that they encountered, one that yielded few survivors.