Although recorded in 1980 at the original Omega Recording Studios in Rockville, Maryland, the 5 songs on this EP were not released until 1996, when Victory Records put them out as the Omega Sessions.
Asked this question by Premiere Guitar, Doctor Know and Daryl Jenifer responded thusly:
Jenifer: Y’know, sometimes stuff like that is just a part of the life you’re living and it’s not really looked at like a product or something to be released. But I’d be the wrong guy to ask that—Doc would probably know more about that.
Doc: I don’t know what the heck happened, actually. We recorded it in a house. I was in the basement, Darryl was in one of the bedrooms, and H.R. was actually outside. We used a 4-track with big old knobs on the board—big ones. I think it was actually a Radio Shack [recording console] kit. I was, like, “What the hell is this?”