Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest is a 1993 ambient electronic album by The Fireman, a duo consisting of Paul McCartney and producer Youth, who is best known as a member of Killing Joke and The Orb. The album consists of samples of McCartney material, mostly from the sessions that spawned his Off the Ground album, as well as samples of "Reception" and "The Broadcast" from 1979's Back to the Egg, as remixed by Youth]. Neither McCartney nor Youth are credited on the album; rumours of McCartney's involvement were eventually confirmed by EMI. In a Melody Maker review, Michael Bonner wrote, Paul McCartney has discovered dance music - and the results are as staggeringly brilliant as those that came from John Lydon's similar road-to-Damascus-like conversion last year. Truly, we live in an age of miracles. Eschewing the easy option of making a remix album, McCartney and his collaborator, Youth, have chosen to follow the likes of Brian Eno down a more experimental and cerebral path. They take a melody and, with dexterous genre-hopping through ambient, trance and house, evolve a number of breathtaking variations. Like snowflakes, each song seems identical to the last, until closer inspection reveals that it has its own unique shape. The project began when McCartney asked Youth to remix several tracks from McCartney's ''Off the Ground'' album for use on possible 12" singles. McCartney stated, The brief from me was that he should only use stuff from our recordings, because dance mixes