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LONDON (CNN) -- The Beatles are making another attempt for the charts with a dance track put together by Sir Paul McCartney.

Former Beatle McCartney has announced he plans to release a new dance mix next week featuring outtakes from original recording sessions by the Fab Four.

"Free Now," a club mix he made with the help of the Welsh band Super Furry Animals, will be featured on the new CD "The Liverpool Sound Collage."

McCartney described the track as a "manic Beatles single." It is the first original work by the Beatles since McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr regrouped in 1995 to record the John Lennon song "Free as a Bird" in memory of their slain colleague.

"It's a new little piece of Beatles," he said. "It's more underground than what you usually hear from me, but I like to be free enough to do this sort of thing."

The track mixes recordings of the Beatles chatting during studio sessions between 1965 and 1969 with previously unheard guitarwork by the group.

McCartney created "The Liverpool Sound Collage" to accompany an exhibition at the Tate Liverpool gallery by artist Peter Blake, best known for designing the "Sergeant Pepper" album cover in the 1960s.

McCartney worked with Welsh band Super Furry Animals on the track

It takes the form of an ambient "soundtrack" of life in the northern England city, featuring everything from interviews with local shoppers to quotes from students.

"Free Now" will be released as a promotional single for disc jockeys only, and it will be available to the public only in album form.

To make his sound collage, McCartney wandered out onto the streets of Liverpool to interview astonished shoppers and passers-by on his tape recorder.

He then mixed snatches of chat that ranged from students at the Liverpool Fame school to "The lady who gets me my chips."

These were inter-woven with more than 20 Beatles out-takes and other Mersey sounds.

"Peter Blake asked me to create a sound collage about Liverpool. I compiled sounds and made the basic collage," McCartney said in a statement.

He then asked Cian Ciaran of the Super Furry Animals "to mix something from it, which he kindly did."

The Associated Press & Reuters contributed to this report.

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