"What happened was that I went into the studio to record the album, which was basically 8 tunes," Marks explains. "During the process of recording, we ended up recording the track as it was arranged and was written but then most days we'd end up spending the end of the session just playing around doing live mixes and dub mixes and just messing about to see what would happen. We actually ended up at the end of 10 or 12 days with like 7 1/2 hours of mixes, a lot of which I thought were really, really good. Suddenly I had this dilemma because most of what's on the first CD was supposed to be the album, but we ended up with these long mixes and other mixes which were just as good. And I thought, oh shit, how am I going to work this one out? So I convinced the record company to let us do a double CD and triple vinyl, which meant we were able to get a lot of the other mixes on there. Even then, it was only 2 hours and there was still more stuff that I wanted to get on. So I convinced them to do a limited edition triple CD as well. Some of those mixes were like an hour, an hour and a half to start with. So I had to spend a lot of time just editing stuff down and sorting out the bits that worked and didn't work, trying to make it fit on an album. It could have been a ten album boxed set. "

In total, "Last Train to Lhasa" took six months to write and record, though that was spread out. It then took a month to edit down to something short enough to release.

"There was talk of releasing the album and then the remix album a few months later," adds Marks. "But to me that always seems a bit like saying well here's the proper one and this remix album is stuff we played around with and some of it's alright and some of isn't. I really didn't want to do it that way. Because it's taken me the same amount of time to write three albums as I intended for one album, it seems in some ways unfair to go and charge three times the price for it. I'd done the work for an album, which happens to be three CDs long. But I was quite happy, so I didn't feel the need to turn it into two albums or three albums. Because the technology enables you to do more, it seems a bit unreasonable to cash in on that and use it to make more money rather than just sharing the extra benefit."