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Release: 1994 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Open Yellow Circle / O Yuki Conjugate

New Meridien

LP | 1994 | EU | Reissue (Optimo Music)

23,99 €*

Maiden Voyage Record Store Day 2024 Vinyl Edition

Release: 1994 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In 1994, UK ambient pioneers O Yuki Conjugate recorded their landmark Equator album. To mark the 30th anniversary of this musical milestone, many of the same personnel – Roger Horberry (co-founder of O Yuki Conjugate), Dan Mudford (ex-Sons of Silence and co-creator of the Shaun of the Dead soundtrack), Joe Lamb (ex-Sons of Silence) and Malcolm McGeorge – came together to make New Meridian, reflecting the range of influences they’ve picked up over the intervening years.

Generously described as “almost like normal music”, the eight tracks of New Meridian feature instrumentation ranging from classic analogue to actual wooden logs. The result takes you on a rain-drenched, open-top ride from Electronica Avenue to the drone caverns of Uranus, with various Fourth World ambi-dub diversions along the way. File under: duress.

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Global Communication

12" | 1994 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

34,99 €*

Release: 1994 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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7" | 1994 | US | Reissue (Tommy Boy)

Coolio

Fantastic Voyage

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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76:14 Crystal Clear & Transparent Green Vinyl Edition

Global Communication

2LP | 1994 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

38,99 €*

Release: 1994 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1995 | FR | Reissue (Ici D'Ailleurs)

Yann Tiersen

La Valse Des Monstres

Release: 1995 / FR – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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I Care Because You Do

Release: 1995 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Another Aphex Twinclassic back in print! Pressed 180 gram wax, download code included!

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LP | 1995 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Richard D. James Album

LP | 1995 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Release: 1995 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Another Aphex Twinclassic back in print! Pressed 180 gram wax, download code included!

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Boards Of Canada

Twoism

25,99 €*

Release: 1995 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Responding to popular demand, Warp Records is repressing its seminal Boards of Canada catalogue on vinyl for the first time in over five years. Each Warp reissue comes with a download code and an original BOC sticker design from the era.

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Nightmares On Wax

Smokers Delight

2LP | 1995 | EU | Reissue (Editions Mego)

Release: 1995 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Timely reissue with digital download card for digital smoking delights!

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General Magic & Pita

Fridge Trax Plus

39,99 €*

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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20th year anniversary reissue of the two milestone releases that kickstarted the entire Mego / Editions Mego imprint and initial aesthetic. This deluxe reissue brings together the first MEGO release, ‘Fridge Trax’ and the full length album that followed ‘Live and final Fridge’, originally released on Source in 1995.

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Autechre

Tri Repetae

Release: 1995 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor

No Protection

LP | 1995 | EU | Reissue (Virgin)

2LP | 1995 | US | Reissue (Astralwerks)

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This classic Massive Attack album finally gets an official reissue.

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Chemical Brothers

Exit Planet Dust

42,99 €*

Release: 1995 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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3LP | 1995 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Seefeel

Succour (Redux)

34,99 €*

Rising Deep Blue Vinyl Editoin

Release: 1995 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Just as paradigm-shifting ideas are met with some cautious scepticism when they first occur, the history of Seefeel’s second LP Succour is a little chequered. Coming in hot from the success of their 1993 debut Quique — regarded as a prophetic example of shoegaze’s eventual transformation into post-rock — a newly minted contract with Warp would prove symbolic of where the group would steer his project next. The few “rock” elements of its full-length predecessor had evaporated, and vast spaces of dub and ambient would come to inform 1995’s Succour. Skeletal rhythmic elements amalgamating into their brooding, elemental and completely singular sound.

Bookending tracks ‘Meol’ and ‘Tempean’ open up like two gaping mouths on a mottled, heavy beast of droning synthesis, laying the groundwork for the world-enveloping tones Stars of the Lid would later produce. The delicate balance of weights teeters throughout the LP, crushing up sheet metal percussion on the techno-minded ‘Fracture’ and ‘Rupt’, which both simultaneously recall Aphex Twin’s rhythmic experiments and large-scale dub textures. The latter style is heavily hinted in the third LP of mostly unreleased tracks in this expanded (Redux) edition, all delay-drenched and booming with bass.

Seefeel proselytised the limitless potential of the post-rock genre with Succour — and produced one of the 1990s’ greatest albums in the process.

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Pluto

2LP | 1995 | UK | Reissue (Glass Modern)

32,99 €*

LP | 1995 | UK | Reissue (Caroline)

Release: 1995 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following the release of 'The Weight Of The Sun' LP, Modern Studies shift from light to dark over two new EPs brought together as six track 12-inch 'Life Flows In Endless Song / The Body Is A Tide', a record that further cements their reputation for innovative craftsmanship.

'Life Flows In Endless Song' showcases the band's increasingly expansive sound, swelling with orchestrated drama behind the rich vocal pairing of Emily Scott and Rob St John, before their otherworldly dreaminess is pin-pricked at its height by Emily's beautiful alto on 'The Failing Light'.

'The Body Is A Tide' hails from ominous darker terrains, scratching further into their own psyche; it's heady and baroque, ornate and super-detailed, an opus that climaxes with 'High Hymn Summers' and its slowly-rolling drone, created by processing all the songs from 'The Weight of the Sun' played at once.

"The EP nods at the idea of our collective bodies weathering rough times, played out with massed strings, prepared guitars, slow bass grooves, hypnotic drums, wobbling saw, xaphoon and mellotron.

We shook off our usual song structures in favour of something repetitive, slow and heavy; life flows in endless song." Modern Studies // "Utterly enchanting." Mojo magazine // "Modern Studies make mood music of the highest order, drawing on the members' collective experience in the folk, pop and improvisational realms." The Scotsman // "There's a charm within Modern Studies' DNA which makes them, without fanfare or clamour, one of today's most mesmerising outfits." Prog magazine // "Melancholic magic." Uncut magazine // Track List Side A - Life Flows in Endless Song EP A1 - Endless Song A2 - Slow, then Sudden A3 - The Failing Light Side B - The Body is a Tide EP B1 - The Body is a Tide B2 - The Naked Eye B3 - High Hymn Summers

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Björk

Post

12" | 1995 | EU | Reissue (Transmigration)

Release: 1995 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Repress 2020 on 140g

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Isomise

The Intersection

12" | 1995 | EU | Reissue (after 6 am)

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Three choice cuts from the back catalogue of Isomise, oscillating between house and techno with a deeply psychedelic edge. Originally released on separate EPs throughout 1995 via the short lived but influential London based Flagbearer Records. The A side Intersection blends UK rave with a nascent tech house groove and hypnotic vocal while the B side is reserved for two expansive acid techno trips.

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Redeye

Resort Annexia

Do You Like My Tight Sweater

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Another quality gem on after 6 am in the rebound. A6a11 - Redeye - Resort Annexia from 1995 comes re-mastered in April.

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Moloko

2LP | 1995 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mantaray (Susumu Yokota & Ray Castle)

Numinous Island

LP | 1995 | EU | Reissue (Transmigration)

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Originally released in 95’ via CD on the seminal U.S ambient label, Silent, Numinous Island is the result of live jam sessions between Yokota and Castle. Several original tracks were recorded to DAT tape and then mixed to create a long form audio travelogue to an otherworldly destination. The result is something similar to the KLF’s Chill Out paired with Yokota’s unmistakable sound palette and Castle’s gift for storytelling. The vinyl edition has been faithfully edited by David Fogarty for uninterrupted hi–fidelity vinyl playback, maintaining the original track sequencing and energy of the CD version.

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The Black Dog

Spanners

Release: 1995 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Maxinquaye Black Remastered Edition

Tricky

LP | 1995 | EU | Reissue (Island)

35,14 €* 36,99 € -5%

2LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (Mo Wax)

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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UK Import.
‘Maxinquaye’ remains one of the most groundbreaking records in British music history. Upon its released in 1995, it was met with resounding critical acclaim receiving near perfect scores from music critics across the board – Melody Maker deemed it “gripping, original, sublime”, NMEsaid the record was “… unprecedented, spellbinding and revealed something new with every listen”, Q Magazine“… Tricky proves himself to be more challenging and eclectic than his peers”, Pitchfork “An unrepeatable record so unbelievably wrong it could only be right”… even David Bowie took it upon himself to write a letter to Tricky in the August of 1995 proclaiming “I’ve loved Maxinquaye for some time”. In more recent times The New York Times and Guardian have respectively said of it “… [an] album-length masterpiece” and “Time has not dimmed the impact of this extraordinary record”.

In its year of release, NME, Melody Maker and The Wire all named it their album of the year and it was nominated for a Mercury Prize(losing out to Portishead’s ‘Dummy’). It continues to be sited for its impact on music being a mainstay of “Greatest Albums Of All Time” lists such as NME’s 2013 list of the 500 greatest albums, Uncut Magazine’s 2016 200 Greatest Albums, Q Magazine’s 100 Greatest British albums, Mojo’s 100 Modern Classics, Rolling Stone’s ‘Essential Recordings of the 90s’ to name but a few. Celebrating Maxinquaye as it approaches its 30th Anniversary (2024) the Reincarnated 1LP package is a welcome reappraisal of this seminal album containing the original album remastered at Abbey Road Studios.

The album has brand new artwork featuring the only known photograph of Tricky with his late mother, of whom this album is named after. The image was recently discovered by his cousin.

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DJ Shadow

Endtroducing

44,99 €*

2LP | 1996 | US | Reissue (Kranky)

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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One of those albums everybody is refering to! Classic beats by the one and only DJ Shadow!

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Bowery Electric

Beat

45,99 €*

2LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (RCA)

Release: 1996 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kranky re-release Bowery Electric's second long-player, their 1996 album, Beat. Its horizontal, morphine-drip trip hop and drone-gazing really don't sound like something that could have come from the mid-nineties. But for the very Bristolian title track the tone of the album is actually far more in-keeping with either Spacemen 3-style eighties indie or modern day dream-pop. In addition to soaring effects-laden epics like 'Empty Words' and 'Fear Of Flying' there's some sensitive minimalism afoot on the self-explanatory ambience of 'Looped' and the sixteen-minute 'Postscript', all of which helps make Beat a worthy and seasonable reissue. A secret Downbeat gem from the middle of the 90s.

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Faithless

Reverence

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Coil Presents Black Light District

A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 1996 | US | Reissue (Dais)

2x12" | 1996 | EU | Reissue (Suction)

Release: 1996 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For those who shine darkly ... During the transitional period in which Coil's primary leadership, Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson and John Balance, reorganized their creative direction by taking on new membership in the group through their inclusion of Drew McDowall, Coil took a drastic turn towards the metaphysical unknown.

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Lowfish

Test(E)

12" | 1996 | EU | Reissue (F Communications)

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Originally self-released as a tape under the artist name Pest(e), this 1996 collection of IDM and analog electronics is in fact the debut Lowfish album. Intended as a demo, it caught the attention of infamous UK label Skam —but after months of fruitless phone tag with the label, it was time for Gregory De Rocher to strike out on his own. Dropping his Pest(e) moniker in favour of Lowfish, in 1997 De Rocher co-founded Suction Records with like-minded producer Jason Amm, aka Solvent. While that Test(e) tape wasn’t technically a Suction Records release, it served as the impetus for starting the label, and we’ve always referred to it as catalog # suction000.
Fans of mid/late-90s Artificial Intelligence classics from Autechre, Locust, Aphex Twin, u-Ziq, and Bola will recognize those hallmark sounds here, alongside traces of formative influence from Skinny Puppy, OMD, and Tangerine Dream. Recorded live to DAT with a bedroom full of analog classics (Roland Jupiter 6, TR-808, TR-606, Arp Odyssey, Korg MS-20), a sampler, and an arsenal of cheap FX units, the melodies here are lush and addictive, with layers of warm, lo-fi-ish (get it?) grit - often intentional, sometimes just a product of the process. Although largely on the armchair techno tip, the dense drum programming also nods to the burgeoning drum and bass movement, which De Rocher was firmly (but only briefly) obsessed with.
For the first time on vinyl and rightfully re-branded as a Lowfish release, we’re thrilled to have Test(e) officially join the Suction Records catalog

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A Reminiscent Drive

Flame One

2LP | 1996 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited edition remastered, originally released on F Communications 1996. For a long time, Jay Alansky has always had within him the complete music culture, from decadent folk to pre-punk. His Balearic House project 'A Reminiscent Drive' was electro reinvented without samples or computers, by hijacking Burt Bacharach and/or The Residents. For a long time, Jay Alansky has always had within him the complete music culture, from decadent folk to pre-punk. His Balearic House project 'A Reminiscent Drive' was electro reinvented without samples or computers, by hijacking Burt Bacharach and/or The Residents. Enriched with modal mutations, down-sampled drums and creeping tempos, created prophetic electronics by tapping into a giant jukebox, which served as its brain. Otherwise, simply caught up in the emotion, oblivious to references and obsessions.

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Seefeel

(Ch-Vox) Redux

Dub Narcotic Sound System

Release: 1996 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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If Succour was Seefeel’s departure from the cul de sac of shoegaze music to wander through the desert of abstract electronics, 1996’s (Ch-Vox) which has been out of print since its original release is the sound of a group building a civilisation in the remotest spot, revelling in their sound far away from the rest of the world, their tones arriving to us like strange signals through the air. Singular as each of Seefeel’s LPs are, (Ch-Vox) could well be their definitive statement, a compelling album fuelled by deepest mystery.

Chief among its mystique is that it’s often hard to tell what we’re hearing most of the time. The humid drones of ‘E-hix²’ could have been created using samples, guitar feedback or a string quartet. The clipped ambience of ‘Utreat (Complete)’ ambiguously suggests either a piano or a bass guitar, a grainy twang-thump which revisits the closing motif of Succour, signposting the maturation of the Seefeel project. Although, ‘maturation’ isn’t quite the right word; (Ch-Vox) is amniotic in nature, each of its tracks boiled down to elemental values, co-mingling with plentiful breathing space. ‘Hive’ gives us the first hint of a clangorous beat, rendered alien by its ambient backdrop of what sounds like the howling of wolves.

This expanded edition of (Ch-Vox) comes loaded with unreleased material on the second LP that’s just as thought-provoking, delivering an even more rounded experience for this immersive album.

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Boot Party Deep Red Vinyl Edition

LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (Glass Modern)

2LP | 1996 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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The classic debut LP by Dub Narcotic Sound System, originally released on K Records and unavailable on vinyl for 25 years. The oddball indie-funk collective Dub Narcotic Sound System was spearheaded by vocalist Calvin Johnson, the former frontman of the legendary Beat Happening as well as the founder of the famed K Records label. Named in honor of Johnson's own Olympia, WA-based basement studio Dub Narcotic, the project was begun in 1994 with a rapid-fire series of funk-, rap-, and reggae-influenced singles including "Bite," "Fuck Shit Up," "Booty Run," and "Shake-a-Puddin'"; from the outset Johnson was the group's sole constant member, although over the course of subsequent releases, including the EPs Industrial Breakdown, Ridin' Shotgun, and Ship to Shore, the revolving lineup grew to include Olympia scenesters like Lois Maffeo as well as Larry Butler, Todd Ranslow, and Brian Weber, all three members of the hip-hop unit Dead Presidents. The first Dub Narcotic Sound System full-length, Rhythm Record, Vol. One: Echoes From the Scene Control Room, appeared in 1995; later efforts included 1996's Boot Party and 1998's Out of Your Mind. Sideways Soul, a collaboration with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, followed in 1999. Trouser Press wrote that "when not delving deep into the usual sorts of ambient studio trickery, the songs hit a '60s R&B stride, bathing in the stoned soul picnic ambience with uplifting spirit."

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Autechre

Chiastic Slide

Release: 1996 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sounds From The Thievery Hi Fi Remastered Edition

Thievery Corporation

2LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (Virgin Music Las)

34,99 €*

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Freundlichbaracudamelodieliedgut

Schlammpeitziger

LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (Imara)

2LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Michael Mayer’s Imara imprint is proud to announce a reissue of German electronica maestro Schlammpeitziger’s second album, Freundlichbaracudamelodieliedgut. Originally released in 1996 by Köln’s A-Musik label, it was the first Schlammpeitziger release to signal to a much wider audience that there was something very special going on in the music of Jo Zimmermann, the mastermind behind Schlammpeitziger. And while he’s subsequently gone on to release a further eight albums for labels like Sonig, Pingipung, and Bureau B, Freundlichbaracudamelodieliedgut is where it really all started for this most singular musician, illustrator and performance artist. Named after the ‘Schlammpeitzger’ or Weather Loach, a fish that breathes through its intestines, moves through substrate, and is surprisingly sensitive to changes in barometric pressure – hence its name – Schlammpeitziger is a similarly remarkable, singular creature.

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Vangelis

Gift

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (!K7)

Kruder & Dorfmeister

DJ-Kicks

Endtroducing (25th Anniversary Abbey Road Half Speed Mastering Edition)

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The slo-beat pioneers Kruder &Dorfmeister of Vienna are among thehottest producers in the dance universe.Even though they only produced twounreleased maxis, big names like CountBasie, Bomb The Bass, Alex Reece orUnited Future Organization had some oftheir tracks remixed by these exceptionalproducers. Their productions oncompilations of Ninja Tune, SSR and WallOf Sound are considered mile stonesregarding the trip-hop genre.During the work for DJ-Kicks and theirdebut album they refused doing remixesfor U2, Grace Jones, Elvis Costello and theFantastic Four!

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DJ Shadow

2LP | 1996 | UK | Reissue (Pias)

Tribulations Extra Sensorielles

Release: 1996 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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As the first-ever album composed entirely of sampled material, "Endtroducing....." is a landmark in the history of electronic music. Its influence reverberates through the years, inspiring countless artists and solidifying DJ Shadow's place as a visionary in the realm of sample-based production.

Each track tells a unique story, from the hypnotic groove of "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt" to the cinematic atmosphere of "Midnight in a Perfect World." Shadow's meticulous craftsmanship shines through, showcasing his unparalleled skill in constructing beats that resonate with both intensity and emotion.

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La Funk Mob

LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (Love Supreme)

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (RCA)

Faithless

Reverence

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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3LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (Kompakt)

GAS

50,99 €*

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kompakt is proud to announce, finally, a reissue of the first, self-titled GAS album. Originally released on electronica imprint Mille Plateaux back in 1996, it’s been unavailable in its original form ever since – the version of GAS included in 2008’s Nah Und Fern box featured several different tracks. Here, however, GAS is restored in all its glory, the debut full-length from Wolfgang Voigt’s most enigmatic, quixotic project.

There had, of course, been signs of what was to come. Back in 1995, Voigt essayed the first GAS release, a slender, yet remarkable four-track EP, Modern. Its centre label featured a reduced symbol – an overhead or lamp light, switched on, its glow radiating outwards in four bold black lines – a perfect representation of the tight, stylised ambient electronic pop contained on that 12”. A few curious compilation tracks were floating around, too, for Mille Plateaux’s Modulation & Transformation and Electric Ladyland series. If you were attentive enough, you could tell something was up.

But nothing quite prepared us for the languorous, effervescing loops and regular-like-clockwork beats that Voigt folded together on GAS. Its six long tracks, all untitled, neither begin nor end but hazily fade into earshot, vibrate majestically in your cochlea for fifteen-or-so minutes – some a bit shorter, some longer – and then meander away, reading the mise-en-scène for the next example of Voigt’s drift and dream logic to unfold. The material is referential in the most distant way, and you can sense only the most evanescent of ghostly presences, haunting these six compositions.

GAS feels, also, like a more pliable hint at what’s to come, as the GAS concept really solidified on its successor, 1997’s Zauberberg, and reach its apotheosis on Königsforst and Pop. Those three albums share a very similar palette – blurred, hazy samples, often of classical music, stacked and cross-thatched across a muted 4/4 thud. GAS, then, is an outlier of sorts: it’s more expansive in its remit, lighter in its mood, perhaps more fleet of foot. This, of course, is part of its charm.

In clearing space for Voigt, by preparing the terrain, GAS sits both at the edge of the forest, and at the verge of an expansive, wide-eyed future; one where GAS would become truly eternal.

Text by Jonathan Dale

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12" | 1997 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Come To Daddy

Release: 1997 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Classic Aphex Twin 12" with four nice mixes!

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12" | 1997 | EU | Original (F Communications)

Crispy Bacon Part 1

13,99 €*

2LP | 1997 | UK | Reissue (Biophon)

Release: 1997 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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/ the hoe - 2 remixes

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Biosphere

Substrata

12" | 1997 | EU | Reissue (F Communications)

Release: 1997 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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One of the all-time classic ambient albums finally available on strictly limited edition 180gr vinyl.

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Ready Made

Opack

2LP | 1997 | EU | Reissue (Editions Mego)

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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25th Anniversary Edition. Originally released on F Communications 1997. Opack premier EP on F Communications had already stood out for its unique programming and production. It had traced a furrow for French electronica "and established Readymade as an essential composer / producer / arranger, developing a falsely crazy and deeply melancholy universe fed by hip-hop, pop, electronica, dub, house and techno.

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General Magic

Frantz

LP | 1997 | EU | Reissue (Editions Mego)

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First time vinyl issue of this 1997 Mego classic. General Magic, the duo of Ramon Bauer and Andi Pieper, who, alongside Pita, first pioneered the classic Mego sound on the Fridge Trax 12” in 1995. The following year proved to be formulative when Mego released Frantz alongside a slew of game changing releases from Farmers Manuel, Pita and Fennesz.

Originally released as Mego 010 Frantz presented a thrilling digression from what was in vogue in music at the time. This was the advent of portable computing and the Vienna based label was at the forefront of harnessing the potential of audio within this new technology.

At once smart and playful these releases reconfigured once disparate genres such as industrial, techno, glitch and the avant garde, folding them into a bright, audacious and euphoric new system of sound. The music on Frantz (named after the Austrian skier, Franz Klammer) still pushes the boundaries of acceptable audio constructions with it’s startling fried electricity and twisted sensibility. The sense of joy in the audio discovery is palatable as techno laced explorations unfold a variety of unexpected and unprecedented sonic manoeuvres.

Tyrell launches proceedings as schizophrenic stuttering handclaps simultaneously slice into pieces as it propels forward. The bending of the brain is on display with the likes of ‘Obvious’ and ‘Close, But Not Quien’. Temko skewers digital debris in which a ghost melody comes to the fore. Brazen rhythms mobilize the tracks ‘No Ketting’ and ‘Bonden’ whilst the Official GM Ski-WM Theme is a short stab of priceless pop wizardry skittering about a strange exhilarating melody in homage to the finest of winter activities.

This reissue also includes ‘Die Mondlandung’ which was released as a 12” in 1995 (Mego 002), and has never been released anywhere, physical or digital, since. This track is based on the live German TV coverage of the moon landing. An apt theme for the abundance of exploration contained within this classic release.

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Fennesz

Hotel Paral.Lel

Lunatic Harness 25th Anniversary Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hotel Paral.lel, released in 1997, marks the full length debut release from Austrian Christian Fennesz, originally released by Mego, following the twitching drone as found on the 1995 EP Instrument, also included in this deluxe 2LP reissue. Once launched, Hotel Paral.lel was to instigate a sublime exploration of a wide variety of forms, from formal abstraction to shimmering drone around to ground zero glitch pop. Recorded just before mobile computing devices became omnipresent it was an investigation into the sonic possibilities residing in guitar based digital music. Sz launches the career with a constantly buzzing sound that resembles a fax machine encountering a G3 laptop for the first time, realising the game is up. Nebenraum is the first foray into the style for which one would attribute to Fennesz. A glacial drone unexpectedly morphs into a gorgeous melody and microscopic groove. Adding pulse and melody was hearsay in the radical end of experimental music up until this point and with this single gesture, everything changed, for everyone. Blok M nails this trajectory home with a straight up 4/4 beat. Such rhythm also features on Fa with a euphoric mix of a thudding beat, sharp splinters of noise and a devastating exploding melody. Repetition plays heavily through this album as the hyper metronomic beat on traxdata lays a bed for all manner of buzzing electronics. On the closing “Aus” we see a glimpse of what was to come in the future works of Fennesz, an experiment in popping, bubbling pulse pop. A far more darker and experimental work than Fennesz’ subsequent work. This is an exquisite radical field of freeform noise, sliced techno beats and subtle ambient texture all coming together to create a timeless work. There’s little out there in the world of music, still to this day, that sounds remotely like Hotel Paral.lel. With a radical reinvention of music Hotel Paral.lel is an essential addition to collectors of pioneering music in the late 20th Century and sounds as enthralling today as it did to the shocked ears occupying 1997.

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µ-Ziq

4LP | 1997 | UK | Reissue (Planet Mu)

113,99 €*

Release: 1997 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1997 | EU | Reissue (Into The Deep)

Genuine

Nu Ambient Grooves

2LP | 1997 | EU | Reissue (One Little Independent)

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"For the very first time, Itdr spaceship travels back in time to unearth 4 tracks from 'Genuine' (aka Chris Zippel) finest productions originally released on Ninetysix sounds in 1997. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of this project, 'Nu Ambient Grooves' is the ultimate mindtrip experience for downtempo, IDM and Tb-303 lovers."

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Björk

Joga

Glow Transparent Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Repress von 2020

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Reef

LP | 1997 | EU | Reissue (Hassle Hindsight)

36,99 €*

12" | 1997 | EU | Reissue (Dualismo Sound)

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This is a brand new re-issue to celebrate the album's 25th anniversary since original release. Each variant is hand-numbered, and comes with a fold out insert with brand new liner notes included.

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Surya

Wide Tuning

11,04 €* 16,99 € -35%

LP | 1997 | US | Reissue (Sonic Youth)

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Surya is a project from Rome formed by Joe Casagrande, Matthew Mountford and Roberto Lycke. Born in 1995 with consistent dub roots influenced with breaks and ethnic music samples. The duo was quite active in the Roman scene in the late '90s, collaborating with clubs like GOA, Brancaleone, MCA and playing with seminal groups like ORB and Loop Guru. "Wide Tuning" is Surya's first record, an extremely unique debut that goes beyond dance music boundaries. Self-produced in 1997 and released only on cd until now.

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Sonic Youth

Slaapkamers Met Slagroom

LP | 1997 | UK | Reissue (Swim ~)

Release: 1997 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Unfettered by studio time limitations with their own home base of Echo Canyon, SYR 2 shows Sonic Youth chasing the shadows of predecessor SYR 1 and the series' distinct aesthetic: total exploration of freedom and further discovery. While the cover art evokes European contempo classical releases of yore, Sonic Youth distinctively reinvent their own personal output potential the way those kinds of records revolutionized a previously defined genre. Their ethos of utilizing the roots of the Ramones, Television, VU, Stooges, and No Wave to shape their first decade now find the band in later years bullet-pointing fascination in AMM, MEV, improvised music, free jazz and other outer-limit/organic refractions of traditional rock. While Sonic Youth's spontaneous-creation moments had long been showcased in their recordings, Peel Sessions, and live, SYR 2 sums up the band's state in 1997: rolling lots of tape, fine-tuning ideas and presenting great moments of exciting new directions, allowing deep-listener type fans to gain better insight into their sound process. Add to that the alchemy of Jim O'Rourke's gradual entry into the core band which would soon be fully on display for SYR 3, and this series is an X-ray of evolution, dissection and reconstruction.

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Colin Newman

Bastard

21,99 €*

LP | 1997 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1997 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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It was four years into the swim ~ label’s history before Bastard arrived. Like my previous albums, it was another collaboration – although this time only with my partner in life and crime, Malka Spigel.

There was a point in the ’90s when British music journalists basically didn’t get dance music and would refer to it as “facelesstechno bollocks”. It was that very attribute that Malka and I felt most attracted to. In instrumental music, you could be anyone fromanywhere. The only thing that mattered was how good your tunes were. In fact, for the first Immersion album, we pretended to befrom Germany and were photographed in wigs and masks. This had the unexpected result of the album selling more copies in Germany than anywhere else!

With Bastard, it took a while to get to the concept, which was essentially this: What if we subverted the whole ‘bloke from Wire’thing and had a Colin Newman album without any actual songs on it? These days, this is not such a big thing, but it was hugelytransgressive at the time. The language of Bastard is house, techno, breakbeat, drum and bass, and doubtless post-rock. The onlysinging is a one-line Malka sample on ‘Turn’. Not only did the album not play by the rules of what would these days be called musicby a ‘heritage’ artist, but it didn’t play by the rules of dance music either. Back then, dance music artists didn’t mix up styles as theydo today. This is one of the reasons the album’s called Bastard.

Upon release, Bastard was modestly successful in comparison to the label’s other releases, although widely misunderstood. Thetitle is intentionally multifaceted, referring to several ways in which the album is a misfit – a cuckoo in the nest. But it never meant‘Colin Newman is a bastard’ – even if Malka’s toy finger gesture on the cover tempted fate on that!

Malka and I have done more work together on swim ~ – and, of course, there has been plenty of Wire activity after its second hiatus during the 1990s – but I never felt the need to do another solo album. I don’t crave attention and certainly don’t feel I lackways to express myself. In many ways, it’s more creative to collaborate with others.

There is joy and beauty in collaboration. And collaborating with Malka has become so effortless that we almost don’t know whodoes what in the work we create. This has led us to throwing open our partnership via Nanocluster events and albums where webuild musical bridges and make partnerships that transcend the art. Maybe that’s the point? Surely, art should be about human connection and diversity of expression?

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Mono

Formica Blues

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Source)

AIR

Moon Safari

Music Has The Right To Children

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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180g Vinyl including download code.

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Boards Of Canada

2LP | 1998 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

2LP | 1998 | DE | Reissue (Virgin)

Release: 1998 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Massive Attack

Mezzanine V40 Edition

38,99 €*

2LP | 1998 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Release: 1998 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Massive Attack's third album "Mezzanine" finally gets the reissue treatment. Essential!

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Autechre

LP5

LP | 1998 | UK | Reissue (^ ^ (Double Circumflex))

Release: 1998 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Autechre sound reached even deeper levels of intricate programming and layered, subtle detail on this their fifth record for Warp.

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Jigen

Stone Drum Avantgardism

Atomic Odyssey! Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 1998 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kitchen sink Scuzz n’ Bass from 1998 Tokyo. Existing somewhere between Drum n Bass, Musique Concrète, Free Jazz and Noise, Jigen (aka Taro Nijikama) ran the cult Shi-Ra-Nui imprint and was a lynchpin of Tokyo's underground music scene, working as much behind the scenes as in front of them.

There is an inherent grit to the work on display here. Jazz-inflected drums, echoing bells, dissonant flutes, and haunting piano work coarsely interact with skipping breaks and industrial atmospherics, punctuated by tense gasps of silence. Samples disintegrate and reappear, creating a kind of elliptical narrative, and the 9 tracks here perhaps trigger a disorienting sense of dèjá vu.

Originally released on CD by Shi-Ra-Nui in 1998, Double Circumflex is proud to present the first officially licensed reissue of Stone Drum Avantgardism by Jigen and introduces the prescient sound of Shi-Ra-Nui for deeper excavation into its shadowy fissures. Mastered and cut with maximum precision by Beau Thomas at Teneightseven.

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David Javelosa

LP | 1998 | US | Reissue (Hyperspace)

22,39 €* 27,99 € -20%

LP | 1998 | US | Reissue (Hyperspace)

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ultimate synth lounge collection of last century modern tunes by David Microwave Javelosa from 1998, limited edition on pink vinyl! Space age, lounge electronica, chip tune, game sounds.

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David Javelosa

Modern Works Volume One

Corto Circuito Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Experimental electronic instrumentals reminiscent of early Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, euro and west coast synth wave. Haunting gatefold computer graphics by SF artist Ruby Ray

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99 Posse

2LP | 1998 | EU | Reissue (RCA)

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Keplar)

Kiln

Holo

12" | 1998 | EU | Original (Craft)

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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»Holo« by the US-American three-piece Kiln, first released in 1998, is one of those rare records that managed to carve out a niche of its own while also building bridges to variety of genres like Chicago-style post-rock, the ambient mysticism of projects like Rapoon or the music made at the intersection of shoegaze, and electronic music in the late 1990s. Lush textures, subtle rhythms, jazzy inflections and electronic experimentation seamlessly blend into each other over the course of the eleven tracks. This reissue through the German label Keplar makes the fully revised version, self-released by the group in 2007 under the name »Holo [re/lux],« available on vinyl for the very first time. »Twenty-five years later this newly mastered vinyl edition is evidence that the sound of ›Holo‹ continues to attract like-minded listeners,« says member Clark Rehberg III. »Which on many levels means that our mission was successful.«

Rehberg had embarked on this mission together with Kevin Hayes and Kirk Marrison in 1993. They had first worked together under the name Fibreforms as a live trio that used treated guitars, kit drums, and tapes of found sound to explore the balance between band composition and recording experiments, while Marrison made heavy use of the Akai S612 sampler as a fabricating strategy with the project Waterwheel. »Kiln seemed to encapsulate the evolution and melding of those previous approaches to one that insisted on the continual opening up of the compositional process, allowing more of the mystery that can be discovered through studio experiments—and accidents—to become important elements of creating our music,« says Rehberg of the trio that is still going strong after three decades. »The word Kiln implies heat and transformation, an attitude that we apply to every sound we use—we begin with notes and performance and then mosaic with shape and colour.«

»Holo« followed up on the trio’s debut self-titled EP that had been recorded in the summer of 1996. »That same year, during a lull in our collabs, Kirk began building pieces on a low-memory Mac using an early 8-channel DAW,« explains Rehberg. Enchanted by the unprecedented fidelity and energy of those recordings, the three reconvened to build upon them and make more music in that manner. »I’d say our intention was no different than any other time: create something immersive and compelling: dense melodic blasts of uniquely constructed but ultimately accessible audio moments.« The group worked individually and in pairs for about 18 months while being spread across the United States. »We poured everything into it that we had at the time, working dead-end jobs by day and on audio in every other open moment. I remember the struggle of that process, but also the pure joy as we pulled down countless moments of magic while the pieces took shape.«

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Epy

Alte Musik Von Morgen

17,99 €*

12" | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Conflict)

Release: 1998 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"This is the real 'shmoov' 5 banging electro flavoured abstract hop trax for quality chilling! + 1 experimental sound scape madness feat. J. Linschinger from Austria's harshest music/performance group Fuckhead." Limited stock.

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Andreas Leifeld

Move

13,99 €*

You've Come A Long Way, Baby

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Andreas Leifelt - Move (12") Re-mastered Re-issue From 1998 Highly Recommended!

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Fatboy Slim

2LP | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Skint)

2LP | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Balagan)

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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UK National Album Day Limited Release. You've Come a Long Way, Baby is the second album by Fatboy Slim. It was first released on 19 October 1998 in the United Kingdom on Skint Record and a day later in the United States by Astralwerks. You've Come a Long Way, Baby proved to be Cook's global breakthrough album, peaking at number one on the UK Albums Chart and number 34 on the US Billboard 200. Praised by critics for its sound and style, the album brought international attention to Cook, earning him a Brit Award in 1999, and was later certified four times platinum by the BPI and platinum by the Riaa. Four singles were released from the album: "The Rockafeller Skank", "Gangster Trippin", "Praise You", and "Right Here Right Now", all of which peaked within the top ten on the UK Singles Chart. "Build It Up – Tear It Down" was also released as a promotional single. The album has now been remastered at half speed into the best available audio quality possible.

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Bob Sinclar

Paradise

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Yasushi Ide Presents Lonesome Echo Strings

Purple Noon

LP | 1998 | JP (Toyokasei)

62,99 €*

Roseland Nyc Live 25th Anniversary Edition Remastered 2023 Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 1998 / JP

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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* Originally released in 1998 * Pressed on Black Vinyl * Produced and written by Yasushi Ide / Originally released on CD and Cassette in 1998, this awesome record is finally being reissued on vinyl for the first time ever!

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Portishead

2LP | 1998 | EU | Reissue (UMC)

42,99 €*

LP | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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25th anniversary edition of the album "Roseland NYC Live" by the trio from Bristol, which was recorded and filmed in 1997 in New York's Roseland Ballroom with a 28-piece orchestra and released in 1998.

The live album and the concert film have sold over 1 million copies to date. The album features the most acclaimed tracks "Glory Box", "Sour Times" and "Roads" from their debut and second album "Dummy" and "Portishead".

The track list has been remastered and expanded to include 'Undenied' and 'Numb' from the concert film, as well as the full-length performance of 'Western Eyes', part of which was featured in the film credits.

'Sour Times' and 'Roads' are also now the original Roseland versions (previously replaced on the album by recordings from other performances). All 5 of these tracks will be released on CD and vinyl for the first time.

- 2LP, pressed on solid red vinyl, with gatefold sleeve, a double-sided fold-out poster and a replica of the backstage pass used at the concert.

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Deep Forest

Comparsa

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1999 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Windowlicker

2LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Rawax)

Release: 1999 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Best coverartwork ever! And the track isn't too bad either.

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Kit Clayton

Nek Sanalet

LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Infinite Fog)

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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RAWAX proudly welcomes Kit Clayton the the family!
We're happy to represent you his epic album "Nek Sanalet"!
More to come!

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Peter Ulrich

Pathways And Dawns

Hôtel Costes 1 (France & Choiseul)

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We are very excited to bring you a new IFP release – the first vinyl edition of Peter Ulrich's debut solo album “Pathways And Dawns”. Widely known for his past work as drummer/percussionist with legendary Dead Can Dance and contributor to 4AD's This Mortal Coil, Ulrich emerges here as a writer of hauntingly beautiful melodies and deeply poetic lyrics. “Pathways And Dawns” is packed with driving rhythms and meditative ritual patterns of percussion. With some inspired guitar-work, arrangement and production from DCD mastermind Brendan Perry, the result is a pure delight...

The album was recorded in two parts, the first in England in 1990, and the second after a long time break in 1996-97, by Brendan Perry at DCD's Quivvy Church studio in Ireland. The album was released on CD in 1999 on the US label Projekt and was dubbed by critics as "the album the Beatles might have made had the group signed with 4AD instead of Capitol" and "a wonderful collection of songs that, while in the 4AD school, shimmers with an inner lightness that makes it very different ".

This absolute masterpiece of spiritual music, so badly wanted on vinyl for so long, is available now. Mastered from Original master takes by Martin Bowes (Attrition).

Reviews:

"His first album is a remarkable piece moving on the edge between ethnic and medieval art pop music" - SideLine "Ulrich's gifts as composer, percussionist and vocalist win over the listener... The excellent "Nocturne" is Beatlesque, with Spanish guitar and rich orchestral bridges, and "The Springs of Hope" sounds swiped from the same album the Fab Four might have made had they signed with 4AD instead of Capitol. The closing track "Time and a Word", recalls late 70s Eno, nicely rounding our a release that leaves one wanting more." - Alternative Press "Pathways and Dawns is a wonderful collection of songs that, while in the 4AD School, shimmers with an inner lightness that makes it very different from any other 4AD album." - Lexicon "Ulrich makes his own way... from the majestic epic of the ten years old soldier “Taqaharu” to the joyous celebration of the source of inspiration on The Springs of Hope... dreamy lyrics a la Sid Barrett... This is a fine album by an artist I'd love to hear more from soon." - Ink Nineteen "It’s beautiful... it's also very interesting in its choice of world-sound crossovers and skillful lyrics... Emotionally poignant, poetic and in its own way, experimental." - New Age Voice "Ulrich successfully incorporates graceful folk music, powerful tribal beats and soothing synths into one enchanting full length effort" - Outburn

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Stéphane Pompougnac

2LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Hôtel Costes / Pschent)

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hôtel Costes 2 (Costes La Suite)

Stéphane Pompougnac

2LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Hôtel Costes / Pschent)

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mysteerien Maailma Black Vinyl Edition

Suuri Shamaani

2LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Svart)

Contino Sessions Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited deluxe reissue on black vinyl Beherit’s first masterpiece, hypnotic “Drawing Down The Moon”, was unleashed in late 1993. However, by the release of this black metal classic, Laiho had drawn colossal interest in electronic music, and Beherit was soon turned into Laiho’s solo project. During the years 1994-1995, two characteristic studio recordings, namely “H418ov21.C” and “Electric Doom Synthesis”, were published under Beherit’s name. Experimental guitar-driven metallic assault was gone for good, as these records contained designated doses of ritualistic electronic music. Enter 1999. Helsinki-based Spinefarm Records, established in 1990 and mainly responsible for building up the international Finnish music scene during the last decade of the millennium, announced the signing of a new artist by the name of Suuri Shamaani – The Great Shaman in English. Behind Suuri Shamaani’s minimalistic musical landscape was – who else? – Marko Laiho. – Beherit’s widespread discography travels from relentless black metal to dark ambient and beyond. So, in some other time and space, Suuri Shamaani’s record “Mysteerien maailma” – “The World Of Mysteries” in English – could have been released under Beherit’s wings.

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Death In Vegas

2LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This Constant Chase For Thrills

The Aloof

2LP | 1999 | UK | Reissue (Acid Jazz)

2LP | 1999 | US | Original (Schematic)

Release: 1999 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Aloof formed in 1990 and forged a reputation as one of the hardest working bands around. While other acts incorporated an electronica into a general rock sound in the early ‘90s, The Aloof were always a pioneering electronic act. Touring alongside the likes of Massive Attack and Leftfield, they released three albums with Warner’s EastWest label: Cover The Crime (1994), Sinking (1996) and Seeking Pleasure (1998). After parting ways with Warner, they were in charge of their own destiny, and formed their own ‘Screaming Target’ label as they set about making a new record.

The resultant album ‘This Constant Chase For Thrills’ has established a reputation as a cult classic, but internal struggles and the wider pressure of the industry meant it didn’t get the coverage it deserved. Despite this, ‘So Good’ became a radio hit after featuring on the US version of Queer As Folk, and remains a fan-favourite. In anticipation of the release, it has finally issued as a single, setting the tone for the full reissue of the LP on Acid Jazz Records.

Defined by a positive DIY spirit as the band moved on their own, This Constant Chase For Thrills, has an Ibiza and Balearic feel, alongside its dark, moody and atmospheric moments. Aside from ‘So Good’ – described as ‘a dark cloud being lifted’ by founding member Dean Thatcher – there is the late night intensity of ‘Doing It For Money’, describing the need to make ends meet in difficult circumstances, which gained attraction when first released. Meanwhile, closing tune ‘Painted Face’ is arguably the album’s standout, infused with wide-eyed psychadelia and open adventure.

“I think ‘Constant Chase For Thrills’ was a return to form for The Aloof and I’m really chuffed this album is going to see the light of day properly and finally get the exposure it deserves” - Dean Thatcher, The Aloof.

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V.A.

Ischemic Folks

23,99 €*

Release: 1999 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (WRWTFWW)

Midori Takada

Tree Of Life

Door Open At 8 AM Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Wrwtfww Records is proud to announce the worldwide reissue of Midori Takada’s solo album from 1999, Tree of Life, available on vinyl for the first time ever in a new audiophile mix by the Japanese percussionist herself, and in full half-speed-mastered glory. The 180g LP comes in a heavy sleeve with a beautiful design by Kohei Sugiura. Tree of Life is also available in CD (digipack) and digital formats.

Originally recorded in September 1998 at legendary Ginza (Tokyo) studio Onkio Haus (founded in 1974 and where Ryuichi Sakamoto’s "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" and many more were recorded) and released on CD only for the Japan market in 1999, Tree of Life is Midori Takada’s best kept secret, a lost gem of minimalism and percussive ambient. The album is separated in two parts, the first one finds Takada exploring her trademark environmental soundscapes with precise mastery of marimba, drums, and bells, notably on the magnificent fan-favorite "Love Song Of Urfa". The second half is a collaboration with Chinese virtuoso Erhu player Jiang Jian Hua, allowing Midori Takada to unveil new layers of her artistic mind with a slightly more theatrical approach and a beautiful crystallization of complex simplicity.

The entire album was given a fresh new audiophile mix by Midori Takada herself and was mastered at Emil Berliner Studios, with half speed cutting for the vinyl version, to ensure an audio presentation aligned with the Japanese pioneer’s vision.

This Tree of Life reissue follows two newly recorded Midori Takada albums, Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter and You Who Are Leaving To Nirvana, both available on Wrwtfww Records, along with her 1983 masterpiece, Through The Looking Glass.

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Merzbow

LP | 1999 | MX | Reissue (Aurora Central)

54,99 €*

Zeitgeist Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 1999 / MX – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We are proud to announce a new edition of Door Open at 8 AM, Masami Akita's powerful masterpiece of melted jazz/noise, on red colored vinyl. This will be a limited edition of 300 copies Worldwide. Regarded as one of Masami’s best work, Door Open at 8 AM combines the harsh noise world into a jazz sample driven world, creating a blueprint of what experimental compositions could achieve.

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Schiller

2LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Sleepingroom)

39,99 €*

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Solid Brass)

Antarctica

81:03

39,99 €*

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Moonage Electric Ensemble

Calm

2LP | 1999 | UK | Reissue (Hell Yeah)

Intershop Remastered 2024 Repress Edition

Release: 1999 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following on from the warm reception to Hell Yeah and Music Conception reissuing Calm's cult Before album, the labels have come together once more to offer up a reissue of the Japanese master's highly sought-after long player Moonage Electric Ensemble. The hard-to-find original has been given an all-new mixdown from original stem files and then re-mastered by Calm himself, and the double LP will also come with a bonus 12" featuring his very own Daydream Dubs plus an obi-strip and original artwork by FJD. The blissful yet soul-stirring Moonage Electric Ensemble, which landed first in 1999, was Kiyotaka Fukagawa's stunning sophomore album and the one that kept the bar high following his debut Shadow of the Earth. It investigated all new worlds of future jazz, ambient and downtempo and has since become a cult classic that often fetches three figures on secondhand markets. He has released over 18 albums since including Before which was reissued in 2022, though Moonage Electric Ensemble remains a favourite with those who enjoy the most accomplished and innovative sounds from the first wave of chillout. This escapist charmer opens with the suspensory synths and piano keys of 'Unseen Small Steps' featuring spoken words from Dan Gamble, then 'Light Year' has gently tumbling rhythms and shimming synth moving about the soothing mix. 'Noon At The Moon' brings gorgeously fizzing future jazz drums and mellifluous piano playing full of subtle joy, and 'The Other Side Of The Moon' then layers up melancholic chords and chunkier rhythms that are detailed with gorgeous persuasive details and mystic flutes. 'Tsukiyo' is a new age charmer with paddy hand drums and romantic interplay between sax and trumpet, 'Between Worlds' is an ambient interlude with distant winds blowing and intimate whispers from Gamble before closer 'Authentic Love Song' rides on dusty trip hop breaks as lazy piano chords melt the heart and Gamble serves up another aloof monologue. This is another welcome reissue of a sublime album that is not only one of Calm's finest but also a true gem in the wider world of downtempo music.

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Dettinger

LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Kompakt)

LP | 1999 | US | Reissue (Tommy Boy)

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dettinger’s Intershop and Oasis have long been held, by many fans of ambient and electronic music, to be some of the finest albums in their field. Produced by the mysterious Olaf Dettinger, about whom not much is publicly known, they were some of the earliest full-lengths released by the then-nascent Kompakt, and in many ways, they both articulated and defined the sound that would come to be known as Pop Ambient, while also existing, somehow, to the leftfield of any clearly recognisable genre.

Beautiful, sui generis works, it is a rare pleasure to see them being reissued on vinyl for a new generation of listeners to embrace. Originally released on CD only in 1999, Intershop was Kompakt’s first artist full-length. The music here simmers and broods, with opulent banks of tone marking out territory for rhythms that seem to be built from the clacking detritus of technology – hisses, thunks, knocks. Bass is deployed carefully, each drop a dubbed-out depth charge; drones spin and spiral, warping and weaving between the beats.

Oasis, released in 2000, refined the palette that Dettinger had explored on its predecessor. A blurred crusade of ambient texturology, its unassuming patterns, and subtle, incremental dynamics, admit to real beauty, and a kind of abstract sensuality that you don’t often experience with music that is, perhaps, similarly tooled, but not as poetic. Through seemingly simple gestures – whether lushly expansive repetitions, hyper-acute tremolo tones, or ear-tickling rhythms – it builds complex emotional resonance. It’s no surprise to discover Oasis is held in high esteem by artists like Panda Bear of Animal Collective, who once said of Dettinger, “For us, he was the dude.”

There is, of course, other music to know Dettinger by, too – his three excellent EPs for Kompakt, Blond (1998), Puma and Totentanz (1999), the latter of which, Michael Mayer once argued, “invented dubstep.” There is also a small, yet graceful run of compilation contributions, many of which can be found on Kompakt’s Total and Pop Ambient series. All this music has plenty to recommend it, sharing a clarity of purpose, and a rare, human warmth and depth. But Intershop and Oasis are the releases that distil Dettinger’s singular vision, and allow him, should he wish, to claim his place as a modern master of ambient and electronic music.

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Amber

Release: 1999 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Keplar)

Shuttle358

Optimal.Lp

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Released in 1999 on Taylor Deupree’s 12k label, »optimal.lp« was the debut album by Dan Abrams under his Shuttle358 moniker. For its 25th anniversary, Keplar presents it on vinyl for the first time with three previously unreleased tracks—the digital version also includes a alternative version of »Tank«—as well as a new artwork recreated by Daniel Castrejón and a remaster by Andreas [lupo] Lubich based on the original pre-masters that were been restored and cleaned up for the reissue project by Abrams. »optimal.lp« was inspired by the rich tradition of ambient music and the rhythmic complexity of 1990s electronica while also sharing many traits with the then-emerging clicks’n’cuts movement, making it a true sui generis piece of work—both informed by tradition and visionary, idiosyncratic and seminal for many artists after him.

Abrams developed an interest in ambient music when he was still a child, scouring through cassette tapes of environmental sounds, new age music, and world percussion. Discovering Brian Eno’s »Thursday Afternoon« as a young teenager marked a turning point for him. »It gave me the idea that ambient music could be an intentional creative act, that tone itself is a legitimate form of expression,« he says today. During the 1990s, he increasingly immersed himself in the electronica scene and the output of labels such as Instinct, where Deupree worked as an Art Director and released his first records as Human Mesh Dance. Abrams found a home on 12k after sending Deupree a demo tape that would later evolve into »optimal.lp,« released as the label’s fifth catalogue number.

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2LP | 2000 | EU | Original (F Communications)

Unreasonable Behaviour

Release: 2000 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Man With The Red Face

12" | 2000 | EU | Original (F Communications)

2LP | 2000 | AT | Original (Subetage)

Release: 2000 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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/ 2 remixes

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V.A.

Fried Kutz

17,99 €*

2LP | 2000 | EU | Original (Parlophone)

Release: 2000 / AT – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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Beat sampler with tracks by Waxolutionists, Texta, DJ DSL and others!

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St. Germain

Tourist Remastered

Release: 2000 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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After selling 2.8 million copies in the last 12 years it was time to kick out a remastered version for 2012. Jazzy stuff for the dancefloor and your couch ...

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2LP | 2000 | FR | Reissue (F Communications)

Unreasonable Behaviour

19,49 €* 29,99 € -35%

Release: 2000 / FR – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country

Boards Of Canada

12" | 2000 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

22,99 €*

2LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (!K7)

Release: 2000 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tosca

Suzuki

2LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Hôtel Costes / Pschent)

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tosca's second album 'Suzuki' (Studio K7) takes a lighter, airier approach to the trip-hop terrain that Opera explored. The spare, shimmering title track's delicate synth textures, minimal beats, mellow rhythms, and breathy vocal samples set the tone for more moody musical fairytales from Richard Dorfmeister, this time with Rupert Huber under the guise of Tosca. Suzuki is--like his releases with Kruder and Dorfmeister--a sublime work that manipulates emotions through sound. Soft and sweet, subtle and supple, Tosca's tracks drift, sifting from one dream to the next. Though they patch hip-hop, jazz, ambient, and techno together, you can't hear where one begins and the other ends. "Annanas" pairs sneaky, squeaky scratching with a lusty female vocal and bossa-nova-inspired hip-hop breaks, while "Orozco" loops a playful riff, running it through reverbs and filters, creating something like pure bliss for the ears.

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Stéphane Pompougnac

Hôtel Costes Etage 3

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Sssound Of Mmmusic Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Bertrand Burgalat

2LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Tricatel)

23,24 €* 30,99 € -25%