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Release: 1998 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1998 | ES | Original (Ufo Waves)

Object One

Connecting People

19,99 €*

Release: 1998 / ES – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2x12" | 1998 | US | Reissue (430 West)

Octave One

The Collective

12" | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Only One Music)

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Cracked corners. 1998 repress.

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ACME

Soul Of Life

12,99 €*

African Head Charge Versus Professor Stretch

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Only ONE Music presents Acme - Soul Of Life!

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Drums Of Defiance

2LP | 1998 | Original (On-U Sound)

24,99 €*

Release: 1998 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2 Times Yellow Vinyl Edtion

Ann Lee

12" | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Dance On The Beat)

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1998 | UK | Original (Hope)

Jan Driver

Drive By

Release: 1998 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1998 | UK | Original (Autonomy)

Waiwan

Goddess

Release: 1998 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1998 | UK (Not On Label (Ralph Fridge))

V.A.

Five Dancing Men

9,99 €*

Release: 1998 / UK

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Stardust vs. Zhané / Kool & The Gang vs. First Choice

Music Sounds Better vs. Hey Mr. DJ / Celebration vs. Let No Man

12" | 1998 | UK ('Arf Inched Records)

19,99 €*

Release: 1998 / UK

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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

Deep Forest III

Comparsa

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Automatic / Same Old Show

Banana Kru

12" | 1998 | UK (Not On Label)

Release: 1998 / UK

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1998 | US | Original (Soundmen On Wax)

Foremost Poets

The Spy-Chiatrist

79,99 €*

Show Me Free Love / I Want Ultra Flava

Release: 1998 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Unknown Artist

12" | 1998 | UK (Not On Label)

Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam

Release: 1998 / UK

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Eclektronics

LP | 1998 | FR | Original (Basetonic Records)

15,99 €*

Release: 1998 / FR – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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2LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (One Little Indian)

Sneaker Pimps

Splinter

29,99 €*

12" | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Only One Music)

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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remastered from the original master tapes and presse on 200g audiophile vinyl

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Head Nodding Society

The Trio EP

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Only One Music)

Ron Trent

I Feel The Rhythm

World, Sky & Universes (Ron Trent)

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ron Trent's masterpiece from 1993 "I Feel The Rhythm" in the rebound! For the first time together on one record with the remixes by Paul Johnson & Inner Experience which came out 1999 on Prescription Records - a must have!

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The Answer

12" | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Only One Music)

Contino Sessions Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Only One Music proudly presents another classic release by the Master Ron Trent! This time it's the former Prescription 5018 from 1999 called "The Answer". The re-issue contains on the b side for the first time the unlereased extended version of the Brookly World Mix Instrumental!

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Death In Vegas

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

33,99 €*

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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

Sasha

Xpander

31,99 €*

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Look Into You Eyes / Chica / Twilight Manouvres

Lovable Rogues

12" | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Evasive)

LP | 1999 | EU | Original (Fucky Laibel)

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lovable Rogues is the brainchild of Tech House duo Lee Humphreys and Evasive head honcho Rob Pearson. 3 Groove laden tracks from the golden era, being the early years of 'Proper' South London Tech House!

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V.A.

Fucky Don't

15,99 €*

12" | 1999 | DE | Original (Tetsuo)

Release: 1999 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Original old stock. "Perplexing innocence and modern pop. All included. Try something a little out of the routine, and join our diehard fans. We've got Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot) in the depths of the universe. Enjoy Console and Hanayo with their version of the national anthem, magically turning it into a smurfy soft-house number. Hop along with Neoangin's Jim Avingnon, a playmobile cowboy riding through a lonely prairie of freedom. Re-live your teen years with the Sitcom Warriors, a beat band starting in the footsteps of Jonathan Richman, the Velvet Underground, the Fall... Tune into Monsieu Morio's lo-fi chansons trickling out of the old-time radio. Re-tarnish your vocoder with the Visions, bringing back the 60s for the urban hipster. Go trawling with Komeit over quack-like harmony waves. There is so much to experience, your head will open like a flower. You will blossom with hits from the Jeans Team, Pinknoise, Milch, Disz Play, King Carlic, Ming, and Art of Kissing. You will become strong and stoic by the songs from Doc Schoco and Rike Schuberty, and Tayfun Fyrrarumare. Dry yourself off in the warmth of Die Welttraumforscher. Rock away with Eigentlich Glucklich's house ballads. Finally Gott 30 leads you out of this music adventure and back into the fucked up reality of the everyday, but the music has left you a better person. Remember: there is no true life with wrong music. Guitars are not excluded here, although the instrumentation tends to be more electronic. Analog fleamarket studios and Atari sounds meet modern digital production.."

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Nature One & DJ JamX

Lost In Emotions

4,49 €* 5,99 € -25%

Release: 1999 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1999 | DE | Original (X-IT Records)

John B. Norman

I Can't Stop

Release: 1999 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kakusei Black Vinyl Edition

DJ Krush

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

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2x12" | 1999 | UK | Original (One Little Indian)

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kakusei (覚醒) is the fifth solo studio album by Japanese hip hop producer DJ Krush, originally released in 1998. Krush combines minimal beats, hip-hop, trip-hop and ambient to create an exceptional album. The album received critical acclaim and includes guest appearances by Esthero, A.S.A., DJ Sak, Mista Sinista (of The X-Ecutioners) and many more.

In 2014, Metro Weekly included it on the “20 Great Stoner

Albums” list.

This 2-LP set Kakusei (覚醒) is available on black vinyl and includes an insert.

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Emiliana Torrini

Baby Blue

Don't Lose The Magic (Java Mixes)

Release: 1999 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Shawn Christopher

12" | 1999 | UK (Not On Label (Shawn Christopher))

Release: 1999 / UK

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tom Wax & Jan Jacarta Present No Ufos

The Weekend Of Love

12" | 1999 | DE | Original (V2)

Release: 1999 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1999 | DE | Original (Tetsuo)

Nature One & DJ JamX

Lost In Emotions

7,99 €*

Release: 1999 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1999 | UK | Original (Dope On Plastic)

Kitachi

Boost Dem

12" | 1999 | UK (Not On Label (The Blindsiders))

Release: 1999 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Blindsiders

Smoking Barrels

29,99 €*

Release: 1999 / UK

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Infiniti Feat.: Juan Atkins

Never Tempt Me

CD | 1999 | DE | Original (Tresor)

9,99 €*

Release: 1999 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1999 | SE | Original (Refill)

Pat H / Section One

Pat H vs Section One EP

Release: 1999 / SE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1999 | DE | Original (Pulse)

Mass In Orbit

Fear (Remixes)

Release: 1999 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1999 | DE | Original (Urban)

Jan Driver

Yo! What?

Angels (The Dutch Remixes)

Release: 1999 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sequential One

12" | 1999 | DE | Original (House Nation)

Release: 1999 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Stefano Gamma vs. Jenny B.

Shine Into My Life

2x12" | 1999 | UK | Original (Undiscovered)

12" | 1999 | DE | Original (Fuel)

Release: 1999 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Doc In The Box

Seven Steps (Remixes)

Release: 1999 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1999 | UK | Original (Locked On)

Antonio

Bad Funk

Release: 1999 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Steve O'Sullivan & John Beer

Undercurrents

12" | 1999 | UK | Original (Mosaic)

12" | 1999 | EU | Original (Not On Label)

Release: 1999 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Unknown Artist

Untitled

16,99 €*

12" | 2000 | EU | Reissue (CSM)

Release: 1999 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Seltav / Csm

Spqr / Shine

11,39 €* 11,99 € -5%

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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John Selway presents another big record from the past. It's the re-issue of his split ep as CSM & Seltav from 2000! The vinyl is expected in the 3rd week of 2021!

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Musick To Play In The Dark 2 Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2000 | CZ | Reissue (Dais)

Release: 2000 / CZ – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First vinyl reissue, available on LP for the first time in 20 years - Completely remastered audio and restored artwork - Side D lunar vinyl etching art // After leaving London in 1999 for the sleepy seaside retiree town of Weston-super-Mare, Coil co-founders John Balance and Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson set up shop in a palatial eight-bedroom estate to pursue the outer reaches of the group's heightening cabalistic chemistry. Among the staggering string of late-era masterpieces they produced is lunar opus Musick To Play In The Dark, widely hailed as an artistic zenith upon its release. The sessions that birthed it were in fact so fruitful that a second LP took shape during the creation of the first one. Aided by the recent addition of Welsh multi-instrumentalist engineer Thighpaulsandra, Coil mined further into the recesses of surrealist eldritch electronica Balance termed "moon music" - post-industrial spellcasting at the axis of narcotic and nocturnal energies. Musick To Play In The Darký spans a full witching hour of bad acid sound design, synthesizer voyaging, opiated balladry, Luciferian glitch, and subliminal hymnals, alternately ominous, oracular, and absurd. Scottish gothic icon Rose McDowall guests on vocals for two tracks but otherwise the album is a hermetic affair, tapping into the group's limitless insular synergy. Opener "Something" is stark and incantational, a spoken word experiment for windswept voids. "Tiny Golden Books" unspools an aerial whirlpool of cosmic synth, both whispery and widescreen. "Ether" is an exercise in funeral procession piano and intoxicated wordplay ("It's either ether or the other"), while "Where Are You?" and "Batwings - A Liminal Hymn" lurk like liturgical murmurings heard on one's death bed, framed in granular FX and flickering candlelight. As a whole the collection skews more muted and remote than its predecessor, as if having grown accustomed to the nether regions of these darkening seances. But music box hallucination "Paranoid Inlay" captures the group's oblique comedic side, always glimmering beneath: over a warped, wobbly beat Balance intones an opaque narrative of serenity, Saint Peter, and suicidal vegetables, accompanied by spiraling harpsichord and stuttering squelches of electronics. "It seems concussion suits you," he repeats twice, like a macabre pickup line, before dictating a dear diary entry about risks and failures, finally concluding with as close to a self-portrait as Coil ever came: "On a clear day I can see forever / that the underworld is my oyster."

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Musick To Play In The Dark 2 HHV Exclusive Cloudy Orange Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2000 | US | Reissue (Dais)

31,99 €*

LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Alcazar

Casino

25,99 €*

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil Pink / Clear Splatter Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Dais)

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The turn of the millennium ushered in an apex visionary phase for English esoteric duo Coil. Relocating from the city to the coastal quiet of Westonsuper-Mare freed them to follow even more fringe obsessions, fully untethered from peer influence. During a single six-month stretch in 2000 they released the devious underworld sequel to Music To Play In The Dark, arcane drone summit Queens Of The Circulating Library, and a malevolent hour-long synthesizer exorcism prophetically titled Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil. This latter work remains one of the group's most miasmic and mind-expanding creations, on par with Time Machines - a sustained divination of shuddering, psychoactive noise, rippling with the motion sickness of an all-seeing eye. Thighpaulsandra characterizes the album as "an exercise in brutality," born from a thorny patch of his Serge modular unit that Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson found entrancing. Processing this sliver of electronics into a ravaged labyrinth was a trial and error process, aided by Christopherson's visual sense of sound, stretching and manipulating it for maximum spatial disorientating. Frequencies nauseously crawl across the stereo field, burrowing into the ear like a sinister brainwashing experiment. An outlier / centerpiece is the 13-minute alien tribalist sea shanty, "I Am The Green Child," guided by John Balance's sung-spoken free verse concerning vengeance, oblivion, and insanity, culminating in the memorable refrain, "We're swimming in a sea of occidental vomit." But the rest of the record seethes in unhinged instrumental chaos, divided into 18 micro-movements of a composition called "Tunnel Of Goats." Intended to scramble the functionality of a CD player's shuffle mode, the piece throbs, thrashes, and flatlines in compressed frenzies of twisted synthesis, at the threshold of some bottomless purgatory, forbidding and unknown.

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Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Dais)

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil Clear Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2000 | US | Reissue (Dais)

37,99 €*

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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CD | 2000 | EU | Reissue (One Little Independent)

Selma Songs

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Rawax)

T.A.C.

Funny Money

12,99 €*

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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3rd release on Steve O'Sullivan's own Rawax series comes from T.A.C. aka Chris McCormack & John Beer. "Funny Money" was originally released in 2000 on Mosaic. 22 years later it will be out on vinyl (re-mastered) again.

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Queens Of The Circulating Library Baby Blue / Clear Splatter Vinyl Edition

LP | 2000 | US | Reissue (Dais)

16,79 €* 23,99 € -30%

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Queens Of The Circulating Library stands alongside Time Machines and Nurse With Wound's Soliloquy For Lilith as a post-industrial pinnacle of sensory-warping long-form drone. Crafted by the distilled duo of Thighpaulsandra and John Balance, the 49-minute piece unfurls in swirling, cyclical waves, tidal as much as textural, channeling the spirit of levitational minimalism pioneered by La Monte Young. Touted as the first part in "a continually mutating series of circulating musickal compositions" upon its initial release in 2000, the album remains a compelling case study in Coil's exceptional capacity for mutation and extremes. The theatrical introductory monologue delivered by Thighpaulsandra's mother - a career opera singer, in her 80's at the time of recording - sets the stage for a grandiose ascension. Written by Balance, the text is declamatory but dreamlike, refracted through megaphone echo: "Return the book of knowledge / Return the marble index / File under "Paradox" / The forest is a college, each tree a university." As her voice fades, the lulling synthetic infinity deepens, congealing into transient crests of volume and haze, like slow-motion surf misting in moonlight. Thighpaulsandra describes their aesthetic intention as a "bliss out," static but shape-shifting, an amniotic drift towards an eternal vanishing point. A supreme sonic embodiment of the slogan on the sleeve of Time Machines, two years prior: "Persistence is all."

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Queens Of The Circulating Library Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 2000 | US | Reissue (Dais)

26,99 €*

En-Core Ft. Eska Mtungwazi & Stephen Emmanuel

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Queens Of The Circulating Library stands alongside Time Machines and Nurse With Wound's Soliloquy For Lilith as a post-industrial pinnacle of sensory-warping long-form drone. Crafted by the distilled duo of Thighpaulsandra and John Balance, the 49-minute piece unfurls in swirling, cyclical waves, tidal as much as textural, channeling the spirit of levitational minimalism pioneered by La Monte Young. Touted as the first part in "a continually mutating series of circulating musickal compositions" upon its initial release in 2000, the album remains a compelling case study in Coil's exceptional capacity for mutation and extremes.

The theatrical introductory monologue delivered by Thighpaulsandra's mother - a career opera singer, in her 80's at the time of recording - sets the stage for a grandiose ascension. Written by Balance, the text is declamatory but dreamlike, refracted through megaphone echo: "Return the book of knowledge / Return the marble index / File under "Paradox" / The forest is a college, each tree a university." As her voice fades, the lulling synthetic infinity deepens, congealing into transient crests of volume and haze, like slow-motion surf misting in moonlight. Thighpaulsandra describes their aesthetic intention as a "bliss out," static but shape-shifting, an amniotic drift towards an eternal vanishing point. A supreme sonic embodiment of the slogan on the sleeve of Time Machines, two years prior: "Persistence is all."

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Coochy Coo

12" | 2000 | UK | Original (VC)

1,79 €* 3,99 € -55%

Release: 2000 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Dance On The Beat)

Y.O.M.C.

Oasis / Wiedergeburt

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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12" | 2000 | UK | Original (Eve Nova)

Jon Laprevote

Shades

Release: 2000 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We Are Stardust (We Are Golden)

Dibaba

12" | 2000 | FR (Not On Label (Dibaba))

12" | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Evasive)

Release: 2000 / FR

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lovable Rogues

Integer 2024 Repress

Tape | 2000 | UK | Reissue (Tru Thoughts)

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lee Humphreys and Evasive head honcho Rob Pearson returned to the imprint for their 2nd EP together as Lovable Rogues. This followed on from their first collaboration which launched Evasive Records : Look Into Your Eyes / Chica / Twilight Manouvres (eva001).

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Bonobo

Animal Magic

17,99 €*

Release: 2000 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2000 | UK | Original (UG)

Jon The Dentist

Music Takes You High

Release: 2000 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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IMPULZ! vs. Marc B Goldberg

Trip On Nippon

12" | 2000 | DE | Original (Not On Label)

Release: 2000 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2000 | IT | Original (Sigma)

Opus One

Plastic Age

Release: 2000 / IT – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2000 | DE | Original (M.O.S. Mit Ohne Sound)

Andreas Fragel

Komikon

10,99 €*

12" | 2000 | US | Original (Fragile)

Release: 2000 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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John Arnold

Universal Mind

22,99 €*

Release: 2000 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2x12" | 2000 | JP | Original (Ki/oon)

V.A.

Wire 00 Compilation

10,99 €*

2LP | 2001 | EU | Reissue (Just Music)

Release: 2000 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vinyl 2 ONLY (Side C / D)

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Jon Hopkins

Opalescent

26,99 €*

Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2001 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This extraordinary debut uniquely combines the light with the dark, the beautiful with the mysterious, in a glorious atmosphere where the worlds of trip hop beats and chill out are made Jon's own personal domain. Sometimes eerie, sometimes majestic, but always profoundly musical.

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Jan Jelinek

2LP | 2001 | EU | Reissue (Faitiche)

12" | 2001 | EU | Reissue (M-Plant)

Release: 2001 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Faitiche presents a long-lost vinyl album: for the last 14 years, Jan Jelinek's Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, originally released in 2001 on ~scape, existed only as a download. Now the landmark album is available again on vinyl, as a double LP with two bonus tracks (B-sides from the Tendency EP, 2000).

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Floorplan

On The Case / The Deal

11,99 €*

Idiology White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2001 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following the re-mastered re-release of Robert Hood's 'Underestimated EP' in March, we continue the Perpetual Masters series on M-Plant with a vintage Floorplan double-header. 'On The Case / The Deal' was originally released on M-Plant's subsidiary label, Duet back in 2001. At the time Floorplan was still in its infancy with just a handful of releases on Drama in the '90s, the seminal 'Paradise' album had yet to be conceived and Robert's daughter Lyric Hood hadn't joined the party.

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Mouse On Mars

LP | 2001 | US | Reissue (Thrill Jockey)

Release: 2001 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Idiology was originally released in 2001 and is now finally back on vinyl. This re-issue is pressed on white color vinyl and presented in a die cut jacket with artworked inner sleeve and free download card. From their beginnings in 1992, Cologne native Jan St. Werner and Dusseldorfer Andi Toma have consistently challenged electronic music's paradigm in often surprising and always intriguing ways. Idiology is the duo's seventh album and is no exception to this rule, as Mouse on Mars surround themselves with strings, woodwinds, brass and the band's own heavily modified fleet of machines in the St. Martin's Tonstudio. Fans should once again brace themselves for the inevitable shock of the new as Germany's most irreverent audio renegades have created the perfect soundtrack for a highly sinister dance party. Kicking off with "Actionist Respoke", the album's first single, Mouse on Mars officially declare their independence from glitchtronica's shoegazing legions. Longtime collaborator Dodo Nkishi lends a uniquely warped vocal sensibility to the track which already features Mouse on Mars's darkest grooves to date. The rest of the album continues to thicken the group's sonic stew. Tracks such as "Presence" and "Catching Butterflies With Hands" have their populist intentions undermined by Werner and Toma's meddling hands, while the duo reprise their flirtation with the orchestral as heard on the opening tracks from 2000's Niun Niggung. At the other end of the spectrum, "Introduce" is a truly evil slice of twisted lympho-zoid hip-hop. Idiology takes no prisoners in its dual-pronged assault on the conventions of modern music. Only with the loungy closing number, "Fantastic Analysis" (a term Werner and Toma invented to describe their working process), do Mouse on Mars let the arrangements breathe a long sigh of relief, the calm after the storm. To enable these stylistic achievements Mouse on Mars enlist the help of partners in crime such as: Nkishi, the multi-talented Harald "Sack" Ziegler, house icon Matthew Herbert on piano, violinist Matty Arouse, in addition to fellow programming wizards Adam "Vert" Butler and F.X. Randomiz. The latter two toured with Mouse on Mars in 2000 as they successfully triumphed over audiences around the globe.

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CD | 2001 | EU | Reissue (One Little Independent)

Vespertine

Release: 2001 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2001 | DE | Original (Not On Label)

Stashrider

Voodoo E.P.

9,49 €* 9,99 € -5%

12" | 2001 | UK | Original (Square One)

Release: 2001 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Deep Roots

Carve / Epidemic

6,64 €* 6,99 € -5%

LP | 2001 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

Release: 2001 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Wally Badarou

Colors Of Silence

27,99 €*

Stanley (Stanley's In A Trance Mix)

Release: 2001 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Synth pioneer and musical polymath, Wally Badarou is a genius. But you know that already. A vinyl version of his majestic Colors Of Silence has been craved by the Balearic cognoscenti ever since its low-key 2001 release. Indeed, when we first started work on Be With, we asked some pals with exquisite taste what their dream release would be. We asked Balearic legend Moonboots and, without hesitation, he said Colors Of Silence by Wally Badarou. We didn't know Wally had made this album. And most still don't. But that's about to change.

Colors Of Silence is ostensibly a new age album. As ever though, Wally's sophisticated synth textures and expressive keyboard runs are so full of character, so full of life, that this work of art transcends any easy genre categorisation. It's simply stunning, throughout. It sounds like A.r.t. Wilson or Suzanne Kraft, with traces of Cfcf and Jonny Nash. But it was made a good decade earlier than the work of these modern giants. Sometimes, it doesn't seem far from some Larry Heard albums.

Island Records founder Chris Blackwell's friend Nathalie Delon asked Wally to provide music for the yoga DVD she was to release. Lack of time on both sides made them agree on using "quality demos" Wally had in his ideas bank. It's understandable why Colors Of Silence remains somewhat of a lost gem. As Wally explains: "Total lack of promotion made it an 'intimate' release, which was exactly what I was looking for: just a buzz-maker and time-buyer that would allow me to concentrate on the real thing as soon as I'd have time, which could also turn into a rare collecting item later, once the final versions made their way to success. You never know."

Over the years, Colors Of Silence has become a true cult record for the ambient/Balearic heads.

The beguiling but brief "Dance In The Dust" is the shuffling, hyper-percussive, hypnotic opener. It gives way to the deep serenity of "Amber Whispers". It's a gliding, divine, mini melodic masterpiece. It'll make you swoon in its extreme beauty. The bright and breezy "Where Were We" follows, a tropical, reggae-tinged bounce through the islands.

The uptempo groove is maintained on the keys-drizzled soca-funk of "The Lights Of Kinshasa" before Side A is rounded out with "Pictures Of You". It starts with stately, melancholic, unadorned piano and this alone would make for a beautiful song. But Wally always gives us that bit extra and he effortlessly introduces warm, dreamy pads and minimal, slo-mo percussion to augment a frankly stunning piece of work.

Ushering in Side B, Wally's mesmeric piano playing is to the fore again, in the intro to uber-chilled "Serendipity For Two". The playing becomes more mellifluous as the track progresses and adds warmth through exotic percussion, woodwind, sweeping synths and digi-drums. It has echoes of, er, Echoes. It segues seamlessly into the more propulsive, wavy "Smiles By The Millions". If you're not nodding and grinning along widely to the gently throbbing bassline underpinning this, we can't help you. The meditative "Higher Still" follows, cinematic in feel and ever so slightly sinister with the strings. It sounds particularly Badalamenti-esque, if you ask us.

That unmistakable, almost peculiar Badarou funk - so lyrical, so texturally rich and so rhythmically spacious - is all over "Oriental". Next up, "Days To Wonder" brings the serenity back, insistent yet melodic keys, as if played in a place of worship, coupled with birdsong, conjure a kind of instant nostalgia for halcyon days of youth. The contemplative "Dawn Of Europa" is a sombre, beatless, ambient journey whilst the glorious, too-brief "Crystal Falls" features soft percussion and sparkle before fully glistening with some gentle head-nod beats. Wally brings this incredible collection to a mellow, tender close with the graceful "Purple Lines".

There can be few artists more under-appreciated given their vast influence than Wally Badarou. His solo work practically defined the sound of the Balearic DJs of the 1980s, and thus the more sophisticated sound of dance culture thereafter. A synth specialist, Badarou was the long-time associate of Level 42. He was one of the Compass Point All Stars (with Sly and Robbie, Barry Reynolds, Mikey Chung and Uziah "Sticky" Thompson), the in-house recording team of Compass Point Studios responsible for a series of albums in the 1980s recorded by Grace Jones, Tom Tom Club, Mick Jagger, Black Uhuru, Gwen Guthrie, Jimmy Cliff and Gregory Isaacs. Badarou's keyboard playing could also be heard on albums by Robert Palmer, Marianne Faithfull, Herbie Hancock, M (Pop Muzik), Talking Heads, Manu Dibango and Miriam Makeba. He also produced Fela Kuti. Phew!

Meticulously remastered and cut by both Simon Francis and Cicely Balston respectively, it has been pressed to the highest possibly quality at Record Industry in Holland. Special thanks must go to Apiento from Test Pressing who first introduced us to Wally and facilitated all those early zoom meetings. It couldn't have happened without his help. Not least on pulling the art together, too, which features striking original photography by Mads Perch. Benji Roebuck of Roebuck Press did his thing brilliantly in art working the whole package to completion. All in all: essential.

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Airheadz

12" | 2001 | UK (Not On Label)

Release: 2001 / UK

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Silicone Blondes

Heaven

Open Close Open EP Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2001 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Robert Lippok

10" | 2001 | Reissue (Morr Music)

23,99 €*

Magnificent Romeo / Dreadlock Woman

Release: 2001 / Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In 1998, Carsten Nicolai, also known as Alva Noto, visited a sound installation created by Robert Lippok for a group exhibition in Weimar, Germany. Soon after, he invited Lippok to release music on his label raster-noton. "Open Close Open" was released in 2001 and marked the beginning of Lippok"s solo career. Before, Lippok had already played in Ornament und Verbrechen (with his brother Ronald Lippok) and To Rococo Rot (with Ronald Lippok and Stefan Schneider). The source material for "Open Close Open" initially served as a soundtrack for a video by Takehito Koganezawa, a visual artist from Japan. For this remastered vinyl reissue, Lippok revisited the original sound material and produced a new track called "Licht."

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2 Many DJ's

12" | 2001 | EU | Original (Not On Label (2 Many DJ's Self-released))

48,99 €*

7" | 2001 | US | Original (Three One G (31G))

Release: 2001 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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Black Dice

Peace In The Valley

Release: 2001 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Jean-Michel

Sixpack

John Thomas / Charles Siegling

Release: 2001 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Star Tracks 03

12" | 2001 | HK | Original (Star Tracks)

Release: 2001 / HK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Stereo Jack & Johnny Flash

End Of Line

12" | 2001 | DE | Original (Confused)

Release: 2001 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Loop Finding Jazz 2024 Repress

Jan Jelinek

2LP | 2001 | EU | Reissue (Faitiche)

28,99 €*

12" | 2001 | US (Not On Label (Stevie Wonder))

Release: 2001 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In February 2021, Jan Jelinek's seminal album "Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records" turned 20. The anniversary repress, a double LP with two bonus tracks (B-sides from the Tendency EP, 2000), is a little late to the party.

What the press said about Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records:

“Don’t be misled by the title, though for there isn’t a finger-snapping rhythm c bebop lead anywhere on the album. Instead, Jelinek chooses to explore the visual effect moiré - two shifting patterns creating an implied third dimension - in the audio realm.” (Alternative Press)

“The title acts as explanation for the studio technique that provided the basis for this album, snippets of other people’s arrangements deconstructed through a sampler into loops and then splashed onto an audio canvas.” (atm)

“Jelinek’s sound evolved out of his dislike for (and inability to play) keyboards.” (rpm)

“Jelinek has abstracted his sources beyond recognition, looping his millisecond samples into flickering patterns of sonic moiré laid atop a dub Techno framework. (...) Jelinek might as well have sampled a horn player’s hissing intake of breath – it would have been ‘jazz’ enough for his purposes.“ (The Wire)

“It’s a perfect inversion of conventional music, a sonic negative. Everything that would typically be foreground is moved back or pushed off the screen altogether, and the flecks of sonic debris that would normally be covered by other sounds are left to carry the melody and rhythm.” (Pitchfork)

“All you need to know is that these onomatopoeic non-specific songs (...) are warm, paradisical creations”. (nme)

“Listen carefully and you’ll hear textures slowly unfolding and mutating. Presuming you’ve not fallen asleep of course.” (iDJ)

“At times, it’s all a bit dripping tap Japanese water torture; so sedentary it drowns in its own motionlessness” (dj)

“Loop Finding Jazz Records' is a genuine modern classic whose re-release is anything but a cynical mortgage repayment exercise. Consider this a second chance, then pretend you had it all along.” (Boomkat)

PS:

“I’ve been fortunate enough to see Jan Jelinek live once, at Tonic NYC (...). Wearing a black and white striped shirt, he looked like a nihilistic Charlie Brown.” (beachsloth)

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Stevie Wonder / D'Angelo

In My Mind / Da Joint

Release: 2001 / US

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Gene Farris

DBZ EP

5,99 €*

12" | 2001 | US | Original (7th City)

Release: 2001 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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John Tejada

Timebomb

9,99 €*

Release: 2001 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2002 | EU | Original (One Little Indian)

Greatest Hits

59,99 €*

Release: 2002 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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2LP | 2002 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Nightmares On Wax

Mind Elevation

36,99 €*

2LP | 2002 | EU | Reissue (Faitiche)

Release: 2002 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Nightmares' instant classic "Mind Elevation" finally re-issued, including a donwload card!

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Farben (Jan Jelinek)

Textstar+

29,99 €*

2LP | 2002 | EU | Reissue (Keplar)

Release: 2002 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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On textstar+ Jan Jelinek brings together the material from the Cmyk series, four EPs he released between 1999 and 2002 under the pseudonym farben (the German word for both colours and paints), on a vinyl double LP for the first time. The selection of tracks has been remastered from the original tapes, joined by two additional pieces that appeared on compilations during the same period. ________________________________________ A Polaroid. Still life with tangled leads and consumer electronics, late twentieth century. Black and various shades of dirty white are the dominant non-colours. The image’s spatial depth remains diffuse, the links between its elements speculative. A note stuck to the wall (a legend, perhaps, or an all-explaining blueprint in text form?) is impossible to decipher. You can’t see what connects the picture’s signs. You have to hear it. farben says: Every sound is a text. A bearer of meaning in search of a reader. Hoping the ideas inscribed in its autonomous existence will be understood as intended. While its beauty lies precisely in misunderstanding, in reading the coded message a new way every time. A thousand colours of sound, a thousand different ways to hear, to see, to understand. On textstar+ Jan Jelinek brings together the material from the Cmyk series, four EPs he released between 1999 and 2002 under the pseudonym farben (the German word for both colours and paints), on a vinyl double LP for the first time. The selection of tracks has been remastered from the original tapes, joined by two additional pieces that appeared on compilations during the same period. Another new element is the Polaroid, showing the origins of a world: Jelinek’s home studio in Berlin at the time. farben says: Move your body! The project has its roots in Jelinek’s love of house as a reductionist vision of soul. Of four to the floor as a proposition that can be accessed anywhere. Of electronic dance music as a realm of possibility that can be continually expanded. farben was written as contemporary house music. As a text about excitement and euphoria. The arrangements were made directly while recording to DAT, on a twelve-channel mixing desk. Several track titles suggest a link to live concerts, coupled with the context of machine music and bedroom recording. Others affirm pop music’s most extravagant stock phrases about various states of love. Jelinek produced the tracks with the aim of making music for dancefloors. An idea that failed very productively. In the locations to which it was originally addressed, the project barely figured. But people did listen, and they listened all the more closely to this music that opened up new acoustic and associative scope for house. farben is the opposite of genre: a music spawning new terms (clicks & cuts, micro-house) that never manage to fully capture it. farben says: Signifiers. The four Cmyk EPs are designed as a network of references that cannot be missed but that can also never be precisely deciphered. The vectors of sound, word and image point to Isaac Hayes and Ornette Coleman, to Detroit and the first generation of the Red Army Faction, to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. So multifarious that they are distorted to the point of recognition. Overall we hear sonic docufictions whose appealing vagueness derives precisely from this oscillation between clarity and ambiguity, which is also the source of their poetry: the lyricism of the pure circulation of signs. The artwork is based on photographs of former Red Army Faction members, broken down into the four colours of the Cmyk model. The motifs dissolve into individual dots of a single colour, so close to the faces that their expressions are only hinted at. Taken together, the individual colours compose a new whole out of fragmentary material, defying definition and thus maintaining their vibrancy. The same occurs on the level of sound. The sampler Jelinek used for these tracks had to be fed with floppy disks, imposing a memory limit of 1.44 megabytes per audio quotation from soul or jazz records. As a necessary consequence of this, the individual references, like the dots of colour, are dissolved into details and abstractions. They appear as splinters that recombine in new ways to create new meanings. The joy of collapsing metaphors. farben says: New departures. Even two decades after its original release, textstar+ does not come across as an epitaph to the modern era. Instead, it appears as a euphoric affirmation of the utopias of the twentieth century, translated into new sound texts via the aesthetic strategies of abstraction, collage, networking and speculation. 1.44 megabytes of history, one thousand signifiers, one album. From “Live ...” to “... Love”. Arno Raffeiner, 2021

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Ekkehard Ehlers

Plays

33,99 €*

Release: 2002 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ekkehard Ehlers' seminal plays series was originally released on three 12inches (Staubgold) and two 7inches (Bottrop-Boy) in very limited runs. The entire series was previously only available as a CD compilation or digitally. Keplar finally presents it on double vinyl for the first time, featuring a new cover artwork. Domestic ethnology: Ekkehard Ehlers plays. ‘Play’ is a word in English with many meanings attached. Each one sends you down a different cognitive pathway. When I think of ‘playing’, in the sense of a game, I think of an activity involving more than one person. When Ekkehard Ehlers plays, he is very much on his own. Or, at least, alone but at the same time keeping intimate company with the artistic innovators named in his titles. Robert Johnson. John Cassavetes. Albert Ayler. Cornelius Cardew. Hubert Fichte. Is he playing with them, against them, about them, for them, to them? This can never be known. It is certainly a mistake to try to hear the ‘work’ of these originals in the sounds played by Ekkehard. They’re not cover versions. They’re hardly tributes in the conventional sense. Cassavetes and Fichte are not even musicians, although music played an important part in both their careers. Sure, there are little nods and flashes of recognition – tiny guitar licks among the minimal beats of ‘Robert Johnson 2’; rich bowed instruments in ‘Albert Ayler’, recalling the violin, cello and double bass arrangements on Ayler’s 1967 Live in Greenwich Village LP; the elongated organ lines of ‘Cornelius Cardew 1’ gesturing towards passages in Paragraph 1 of the British composer’s 1971 Marxist monolith, The Great Learning. Ekkehard is not so much playing these figures as allowing himself to be played by them. Playing as an activity also suggests freedom. Maybe the only thing all five named persons have in common is that they were all quiet radicals. In music, literature and cinema, they all stepped, without self-promotion or fanfare, into unmapped territories. Once there they found it necessary to invent new languages in order to survive. Necessity was the mother of their inventiveness. They were also uncomfortable avant gardists. Lonely types, fighting their corners out on the margins, with little reward, often misunderstood, ridiculed or ignored. All died unfairly young. Fichte a victim of Hiv/aids, Cassavetes of cirrhosis of the liver. (‘Cassavetes 2’ sounds like a tender farewell played across the 59 year old alcoholic director’s death bed.) The deaths of Johnson, Ayler and Cardew have never been satisfactorily explained, and remain shrouded in myths and conspiracy theories. The pioneering expeditions of all five began in that spirit of playful freedom, but inexorably drew them towards the heart of darkness. So these ‘plays’ are micro-dramas, sonic soliloquies, monolog-ins to the private accounts of various geniuses in Ekkehard’s ‘follow’ list. Hacked sensibilities. Artistic manifestos boiled down and distilled, skinned and dried in the digital smokehouse. (Ekkehard Ehlers Flays.) Each of these plays was originally floated out into the world alone on its own disc. The collected works play well as a team – a tranquil, introspective experience where each artist has his own identifiably unique sound character. As an album, Plays is a ‘Plattenragout’ – a ‘record stew’ – which was the title of Hubert Fichte’s LP review column in the leftist culture magazine konkret in the 1960s. The novelist’s work investigating the cultures of South America and the Caribbean islands has been called ‘domestic ethnology’. The writer himself referred to his ‘ethnopoesie’. Ekkehard Ehlers’s intuitive electronic portraits are a form of domestic ethnology in themselves. Invoking another of Ekkehard’s musical aliases, they are portraits of cultural ‘autopoiesies’ – creators whose works were strong enough to have their own self-regenerating life force. (by Rob Young)

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CD | 2002 | EU | Original (One Little Independent)

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