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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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2LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (Musique Pour La Danse)

Detroit Escalator Co.

Soundtrack [313]

34,99 €*

2LP | 1996 | EU | Reissue (Kontakt Audio)

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sublime and perfectly produced cutting-edge ambient techno masterpiece made in 1996 by unsung Detroit hero Neil Ollivierra, an album as underrated as it is essential. 25 years after its original release on UK label Ferox Records, Soundtrack [313] still provides a deeply futuristic aesthetic experience, warm and emotional electronics, along with glistening melody lines that create a peaceful, relaxed environment. This album possesses a formidable aptitude to always instill its listeners with a life-affirming feeling of serenity. A true timeless and unique classic that exists within its own genre and which still pushes the envelope of electronic music that transcends the club experience. This expanded release includes 4 bonus tracks, a liner note by the artist, and valuable photographic footage from his personal archives. This reissue has been mastered from original files by Sidney Claire Meyer at Emil Berliner (former Deutsche Grammophon studios in Berlin), using the half speed mastering process, and pressed on heavy vinyl. 25th anniversary audiophile edition. For fans of Detroit Techno, Global Communications, Black Dog, Manuel Goettsching, Tangerine Dream, Susumu Yokota, und Klaus Schulze.

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Ihor Tsymbrovsky

Come, Angel

37,99 €*

CD | 1996 | EU | Reissue (One Little Independent)

Release: 1996 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kontakt Audio and Infinite Fog Productions proudly present the 25-th anniversary reissue of the one of most unique albums on avantgarde/neoclassic music – Ihor Tsymbrovsky – Come, Angel.

Recorded in 1995 in Ukraine and released in 1996 just as a small run on cassette on Polish label Koka Records, the album without any promotion little by little became legendary and madly wanted by many fans all around the world. And from the first seconds, you can hear why it is so. Pretty hard to explain what songs play Ihor, moreover that would be senseless. “Come, Angel” is one of those albums which are so unique that takes you in a vacuum of verbal forms in an attempt to describe the record. In a few words, this is definitely very intimate and deeply emotional music with an absolutely incredible voice. The first associations could forward you to Antony Hegarty from Antony And The Johnsons, Marc Almond, Arthur Russell, Baby Dee, Bjork. Experienced listener familiar with these great artist knows that all of them are inimitable and Ihor Tsymbrovsky is totally inimitable as well.

In 2016 well-known German label Offen Music published 3 tracks from the album “Come, Angel” which brought a lot of attention to Ihor’s music. This time we’re excited to announce the first full album reissue on CD, Double vinyl, and tapes. Beside the full version of the album, you’ll find an exclusive bonus song from the cult compilation “Music The World Does Not See” – Nefryt Records 2000.

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“For me, music is a certain way of cultural survival. Here I do not set myself theoretical problems or experiments. The connotations of life are important: rhythms, melodies, their connection with language, poetry, real life, virtual or imaginary space. It is very important to me how the recitation of work sounds, how consonant and vowel sounds dissolve in singing, how they combine musically. I understand sound space as a field of my interpretations, preferences, priorities, and I do not use direct imitation. If I hear a melody or a musical phrase, and it is fixed in my memory, later I extract it in my own interpretation, as already formed by this field. In art, the goal is in the work itself, not outside it. For me, the expression “To be is to create a new reality” is another winged reality.” – Ihor Tsymbrovsky

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“Tsymbrovsky – an architect, musician, a poet, an artist; one of the most underestimated musicians in Ukraine’s artistic world. Many critics pulled their hair out trying to get to the bottom of Tsymbrovsky’s music. It has been inspired by jazz, minimal, modern, ethnic, and meditation music. Tsymbrovsky is not a virtuoso, however, he creates whole worlds with his astonishing falsetto. Although Cymbrovsky’s music is simple it is made of many elements. Filled with magic and unusual sensitivity and warmth it can be therapeutic for the listener. This is that kind of music, which can be listened to many times – in a different way each time.” – Koka Records.

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“Igor Tsymbrovsky’s only album “Come Angel” (1995) still remains perhaps the most bizarre phenomenon in Ukrainian music since independence. The story of its author is a vivid example of cultural amnesia. In the pre-Internet era, Tsymbrovsky was a prominent figure in the Ukrainian underground, performed on the “Red Route”, went on tour in Germany. However, he left a minimum of evidence of his activity and became a silent legend for a few. We talked to Igor to find out where he came from and where he was going.

The album “Come Angel” is eight compositions performed with a falsetto to the accompaniment of a piano. (Tsymbrovsky’s falsetto is a legacy of the Lviv Dudaryk choir, where he sang as a child.) It would seem that it could be easier. But, despite such ascetic tools, Tsymbrovsky managed to create a phenomenon unique to Ukrainian culture. Some people compare him to Benjamin Clementine and Anthony Hegarty, but no comparison will be exhaustive. The lyrics of the songs attract special attention: two of them were written by Tsymbrovsky himself, the others demonstrate his remarkable literary knowledge. Here and Guillaume Apollinaire, and Mikhaijl Semenko, and even less obvious poets, such as Mykola Vorobyov or Jozsef Attila.

The young performer’s first performance took place in 1987 in the club of the Forestry Institute. It is quite symbolic that this room used to be a Jesuit church because such a chamber environment suits his songs about angels much better than the noise of big festivals. However, there were also many festivals in Tsymbrovsky’s career: in 1989, Chorna Rada and Chervona Ruta, in 1991, Kharkiv’s Nova Scena and Ukrainian Nights in Gdansk, Alternativa in Lviv. Ihor calls his first performances musical performances and notes that they sounded completely different. Unfortunately, we will never know exactly how.” – Amnesia

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“The magicians at Dusseldorf’s Offen Music pluck a madly beguiling pearl of late-night songcraft by Ukraine’s Ihor Tsymbrovsky to follow their vital releases by Toresch and Rex Ilusivii. Come Angel was first recorded in Lviv, Ukraine, in 1995, and issued on cassette by Poland’s Koka Records in 1996. There appears to be no prior mention of the release or artist on the internet and quite how it came into of Offen Music possession is not disclosed, and that only ratchets the record’s enigma to astonishing degrees once you’ve heard the music. In a quivering, high register, androgynous trill, Ihor Tsymbrovsky beckons heavenly beings in the remarkable A-side Come, Angel against a swirling backdrop of phasing, subtly delayed organ. It was recorded in one take (this is the 2nd version), and, if we’re not mistaken, you can hear the keys being pressed rhythmically in the background, which seems to be the song’s only tangible connection to this mortal world as Ihor vaults octaves high and close-in-the-mix with the sort of alien, dreamlike vocal that requires pinching oneself to make sure you’re awake. Spellbinding is definitely the word. On the other side he (we’re assured it is a ‘he’ in the promo text) sets two poems by Mykola Vorobyov and Mykhal Semenko, respectively, to emphatic piano keys, this time more shy of FX save for some delay, placing that willowing, avian vocal at a dreamy arms reach in Roses for the Poet, and with a sort of liturgical dark jazz feel, sorta like Lewis repenting his sins as a castrato monk, in the spare atmosphere in By the Sea. This is gold-seal business, we tell ya. Clock the clips and clear some swooning room.” – Boomkat

credits: Music By – Ihor Tsymbrovsky Lyrics By: Ihor Tsymbrovsky (tracks: C2, D1) Atilla Joszef (tracks: B1) Mychajl Semenko (tracks: B2, C1,C3, D2) Mykoła Worobjow (tracks: A1,A2) Engineer – Edward Hryhorjew Remastering – Ihor Tsymbrovsky

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Björk

14,99 €*

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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12" | 1997 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

Aphex Twin

Come To Daddy

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

Release: 1997 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Classic Aphex Twin 12" with four nice mixes!

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Laurent Garnier

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

LP | 1997 | EU | Reissue (Island)

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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Portishead

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

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Finally, this Portishead classic is back in print!!

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Ready Made

Opack

CD | 1997 | EU | Reissue (Mille Plateaux)

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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Porter Ricks

13,49 €* 17,99 € -25%

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

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Porter Ricks is a collaboration between Thomas Köner and Andy Mellwig. After the Re-release of the legendary album “Biokinetics", which is superb subaquatic dub techno, we re-release Porter Ricks first album on Mille Plateaux. The album demonstrates the move to a kind of discoid funkyness with an underlying almost organic rhythmight. But still its not music for beautiful souls. Instead, it combines funkyness with alien sonic fluxes and the rhythm of a killing mover.

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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

CD | 1997 | CA | Original (Clover)

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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Vernal Equinox

Music For Art Galleries

16,99 €*

Release: 1997 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lunatic Harness 25th Anniversary Black Vinyl Edition

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

12,99 €*

CD | 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

Homogenic

14,99 €*

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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

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 €*

2LP | 1997 | CA | Reissue (Astralwerks)

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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Chemical Brothers

Dig Your Own Hole

32,99 €*

Release: 1997 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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

Surya

Wide Tuning

10,19 €* 16,99 € -40%

CD | 1997 | EU | Original (Out To Lunch)

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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Lowtec

The Early Portrait

6,99 €*

LP | 1997 | US | Reissue (Sonic Youth)

Release: 1997 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Excellent Ambient Techno/House album

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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 €*

Mixmaster Morris, Jonah Sharp, Haruomi Hosono

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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Quiet Logic

2LP | 1997 | EU | Reissue (WRWTFWW)

Mixmaster Morris, Jonah Sharp, Haruomi Hosono

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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WRWTFWW Records is flying high as it announces the reissue of the 1997 ambient masterpiece Quiet Logic by electronic music visionaries Mixmaster Morris (The Irresistible Force), Jonah Sharp (Spacetime Continuum), and Haruomi Hosono (Yellow Magic Orchestra). For the first time ever, this iconic album is available on vinyl as a double LP with a heavy 350gsm sleeve, as well as on digipack CD and digitally.
Quiet Logic invites listeners to embark on a captivating sonic odyssey, blending intricate rhythms and celestial environments that push the boundaries of electronic music. Co-crafted at Haruomi Hosono's Tokyo studio in 1997, this album represents a time of rapid transformation in the genre, with these three artists at the forefront of redefining soundscapes.
With its unique blend of influences from Hosono's immense contribution to electronic, pop, and experimental music to Morris' worldwide chill out DJ performances and Sharp's pioneering label, Reflective, Quiet Logic remains a timeless piece of ethereal electronica. It was originally only released in Japan in CD format on the Harry Hosono-curated Daisyworld Discs label.
Remastered for 2024, this reissue is a must-have for fans of Haruomi Hosono / YMO, The Irresistible Force, Spacetime Continuum, Dreamfish, Tetsu Inoue, FFWD, H.I.A., Fax +49-69/450464, and mind-expanding musics.
Immerse yourself now.
Quiet Logic is pressed on biovinyl, a sustainable alternative to traditional vinyl. Biovinyl replaces petroleum in S-PVC by recycling used cooking oil or industrial waste gases, resulting in 100% CO2 savings in bio-based S-PVC production. Furthermore, it is 100% recyclable and reusable, embracing the circular economy ideology.

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Quiet Logic

CD | 1997 | EU | Reissue (WRWTFWW)

18,99 €*

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

Release: 1997 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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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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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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Massive Attack

Mezzanine V40 Edition

38,99 €*

2LP | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Virgin)

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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Massive Attack

Mezzanine

45,99 €*

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 1998 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

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)

23,79 €* 27,99 € -15%

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 | JP | Reissue (Silent River Runs Deep)

Takashi Sekiguchi

Bamboo From Asia Plus

35,99 €*

Vibractance 25th Anniversary Yellow Cassette Edition

Release: 1998 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Originally released from "Crescent", the label of Sound Process Design Inc., founded by Satoshi Ashikawa, a pioneer of Japanese environmental music. First analog LP reissue of a collection of film music works by Takashi Sekiguchi, who is linked to Hiroshi Yoshimura, Inoyama Land, and other renowned catalogs! "Bamboo From Asia Plus" was released as a CD in 1998, and in addition to the content of Sekiguchi's personal work, which was independently produced only on cassette, it includes sound files composed for six video works released from 1984 to 1994. The acoustic sound of the guitar, percussion, and many Asian ethnic instruments is brilliant throughout the entire piece, accompanied by various images and overflowing with emotion. The essence of his music, which crosses borders to any extent, is concentrated here. ◇ Remastering for vinyl by Kuniyuki Takahashi ◇

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Merzbow

Tape | 1998 | MX | Reissue (Aurora Central)

19,99 €*

LP | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Keplar)

Release: 1998 / MX – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Originally released in France in 1998, Vibractance is one of the most unique and haunting titles in Merzbow’s vast catalog. It’s unique drone, noise, almost ambient like qualities makes this a great starting point for adventurer ears but also an essential album for the initiated. A true journey into the unknown where pulsating sonar waves swim between a sea of eerie beauty and tangible dreams. Celebrating it’s 25th anniversary, Aurora Central Records proudly presents its first ever vinyl and cassette release.

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Kiln

Holo

24,99 €*

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 €*

12" | 1999 | UK | Reissue (Warp)

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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Aphex Twin

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

2LP | 1999 | UK | Reissue (Mute)

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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Pole

Pole2

Release: 1999 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Infinite Fog)

Peter Ulrich

Pathways And Dawns

24,99 €*

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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Hôtel Costes 1 (France & Choiseul)

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

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hôtel Costes 2 (Costes La Suite)

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 €*

LP | 1999 | EU | Original (Fucky Laibel)

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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V.A.

Fucky Don't

CD | 1999 | EU | Reissue (WRWTFWW)

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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Midori Takada

Tree Of Life

18,99 €*

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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CD | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Pschent)

Hotel Costes 2/La Suite

13,99 €*

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Zeitgeist Blue Vinyl Edition

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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Kakusei Black Vinyl Edition

DJ Krush

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

37,99 €*

Moonage Electric Ensemble

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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Calm

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

Moon Safari 25th Anniversary 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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AIR

2CD+Blu-Ray | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

25,99 €*

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Intershop Remastered 2024 Repress Edition

Dettinger

LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Kompakt)

24,99 €*

2LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Keplar)

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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Shuttle358

Optimal.Lp

LP | 1999 | US | Reissue (Tommy Boy)

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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Amber

Release: 1999 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In a beautiful place out in the country

Boards Of Canada

MCD | 2000 | US | Original (Warp)

10,99 €*

Release: 2000 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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

Laurent Garnier

Unreasonable Behaviour

Release: 2000 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Man With The Red Face

Laurent Garnier

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

12,99 €*

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

In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country

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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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 | UK | Reissue (Mute)

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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Pole

Pole3

Release: 2000 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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

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)

24,79 €* 30,99 € -20%

Campi Magnetici Red Vinil Edition

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Record Store Day 2021 release. Bertrand Burgalat's first album 'The Sssound of Mmmusic', also known as TSOM, is released in an expanded reissue, twenty-one years after its first publication, on June 12th 2021 for the Record Store Day. Bertrand Burgalat combines lush arrangements, dreamy atmospheres and pop culture with class and humor.

In 2000, Bertrand Burgalat decided to evolve openly by releasing his first solo album 'The Sssound of Mmmusic' which had been in the works since the creation of the label 5 years earlier. This album, a true melancholic and sensual sonorama, reveals the very essence of Burgalat's art, fragile, nuanced, with a rare humility. Dotted with banjos and club bass, cascades of synthetic strings and soprano saxophone, geisha choirs and unblocked beats, 'The Sssound of Mmmusic' appears as a contrasting work where opposites unite in perfect alchemy.

Accompanied by previously unreleased tracks for the first time on vinyl, the album features songs like 'Gris métal' with a text by Michel Houellebecq, 'Vision of Love' his cover of Mariah Carey, or 'Kim' five minutes of intoxicating music.

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Franco Battiato

2LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (RCA)

37,99 €*

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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2x10" | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Alara)

Loren Mazzacane Connors

Portrait Of A Soul

23,19 €* 28,99 € -20%

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Beautiful reissue of the 2000 album on Fbwl, guitar ballads about Day, Evening, Night and Dawn. Remastered in 2014 by Taylor Deupree at 12k.

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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)

LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Keplar)

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Arovane

Tides

12" | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Tonal Oceans)

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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»Tides« marked a radical change in direction for Arovane. After Uwe Zahn had made a name for himself with cutting-edge IDM rhythms and slick ambient textures on a slew of releases, his sophomore album saw the prolific producer opt for a sample-based approach that resulted in a more organic sound and laid-back downbeat grooves. Having reissued Arovane’s seminal »Atol-Scrap« as a double LP in 2021, the Berlin-based Keplar label now makes »Tides« available on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 2000 through the legendary City Centre Offices. The new version has been remastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering and comes with a brand new cover artwork. It shines a new light on a release for which Zahn quite literally ventured into previously unknown territory — »Tides« is an album that emits a timeless, quiet calm and nonetheless stays constantly in motion.

»The idea for the album came to me after a vacation in France«, says Zahn. Inspired by the landscape, especially the coastline and the sea, he made field recordings throughout his trip that were also used on the record, giving it its sensual feel. The foundation of the album however, the loose yet gripping grooves at the heart of every track, result from Zahn working extensively with samples. »I wanted to make use of drum sounds and small excerpts from old jazz vinyl records«, he explains. He maintained the unique sound signatures and rhythmic flutter of the source material while building intricate beats with them. Most of the material was culled from the record collection of Christian Kleine, whose spontaneous guitar improvisations over the first musical sketches were recorded and edited by Zahn and can be heard on four tracks. Also employing the occasional cembalo or spinet sound, he worked with a hardware sequencer and a delay to integrate the different, discrete elements into nine tracks that feel both dense and light at once.

What’s astonishing still 22 years later is how spacious »Tides« sounds. This is due to the fact that Zahn not only paid close attention to the sonic idiosyncrasies of his source material, but also to what happened in between those sounds. »Mark Hollis’s solo album was a huge inspiration at that time«, says Zahn. »What I find fascinating about it until this day is how silence and the subtle hiss of the mixing boards were being used on that record.« Silence was also an important stylistic element on »Tides« and adds greatly to the overall atmosphere of an album that with the appropriately named »Theme« immediately sets the mood with intricate spinet melodies: Zahn opens a door for his listeners and invites them to follow him to see a specific part of the world through his very own lens.

As a whole, the album mirrors Zahn’s trip that took him along the steep cliffs on a foggy day (»Seaside«), to an abandoned house in which he found old maps (»A Secret«), along the coastline during a long car ride (»Deauville«), to a sleepy village and the slowly moving sea (»Tides«) and finally back home to his native Germany where he started reflecting upon his experiences, ultimately deciding to translate them into music (»Epilogue«). »Whenever I listen to this album now, the images and memories it evokes are incredibly vivid and vibrant«, he says. It’s not hard to see — or rather hear — why. »Tides« may have been a deeply personal project, but it effortlessly evokes universal feelings by (re-)building an entire world in the course of only a few pieces of music.

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Artificial

Stoner Classix Selected

16,99 €*

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hot on the heels of 001, Tonal Oceans proudly presents 6 carefully selected tracks from Nicole Skeltys' rather extensive catalog. Compiling tracks from her Artificial alias, Tnl-ocs002 consists of material which draws from her self-released 12"s, a long lost 7" lathe cut, as well as some CD-only material. Being active since the 90's, Nicole has paved her way through many genres and moods, which together represent all things "Antipodean Electronica" excellently. Also features a track from close friends Dark Network. Presented in a printed sleeve with psychedelic sticker. Artwork by Soft Turbo.

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Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Dais)

34,99 €*

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 Pink / Clear Splatter Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Dais)

34,99 €*