LP, Black vinyl with Printed Inner
Territory: Sales Only to: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France
Veneer made an indelible mark in its understated, expressive brilliance and cemented José González as a meticulous sonic craftsman and
songwriter of singular talent. It’s hard to believe an album recorded with the most basic equipment in a cramped Gothenburg flat could end up
going platinum, not only in Sweden but also the UK, selling well over 1 million copies worldwide. It’s harder still when one acknowledges that,
aside from one brief trumpet solo and the slightest hint of percussion, the record features just one hushed voice and the dexterous picking of an
acoustic guitar’s nylon strings. But 2003’s Veneer was such an album, charting in several countries in the world, and eventually making Top 10
in the UK thanks in part to its delicate, evocative cover of The Knife’s “Heartbeats”.
Praise for José González:
Magical... a supreme talent, reminiscent of the late Arthur Russell The Guardian
Veneer draws you in, it’s easy to believe that the young Swede could begin his own cult The Times
Spine-tingling The Sunday Times
Jose Gonzalez really is a rare find The Times (live review)
Gorgeous, in a word Observer Music Monthly
A fresh and intriguing talent The Independent
Affecting soulful poignancy, a quietly impressive debut The Daily Telegraph
Enormous talent The Sunday Telegraph
An intense talent Time Out
In a world of musical clones, the Argentinian Swede is a thrillingly original new talent The Sun
It's an exquisite, almost solemn privilege to be invited into Gonzalez's world Metro
Extraordinary Uncut
The most intimate music you’ll hear all year Q
Dark, still, yet oddly powerful Mojo
Wonderfully accomplished... a serious talent to watch out for, this year
and beyond Clash
Jawdroppingly special, a rare talent Fact
TRACKLISTING:
Slow Moves
Remain
Lovestain
Heartbeats
Crosses
Deadweight On Velveteen
All You Deliver
Stay In The Shade
Hints
Save Your Day
Broken Arrows
Save Your Day
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Veneer made an indelible mark in its understated, expressive brilliance and cemented José González as a meticulous sonic craftsman and
songwriter of singular talent. It’s hard to believe an album recorded with the most basic equipment in a cramped Gothenburg flat could end up
going platinum, not only in Sweden but also the UK, selling well over 1 million copies worldwide. It’s harder still when one acknowledges that,
aside from one brief trumpet solo and the slightest hint of percussion, the record features just one hushed voice and the dexterous picking of an
acoustic guitar’s nylon strings. But 2003’s Veneer was such an album, charting in several countries in the world, and eventually making Top 10
in the UK thanks in part to its delicate, evocative cover of The Knife’s “Heartbeats”.
Praise for José González:
Magical... a supreme talent, reminiscent of the late Arthur Russell The Guardian
Veneer draws you in, it’s easy to believe that the young Swede could begin his own cult The Times
Spine-tingling The Sunday Times
Jose Gonzalez really is a rare find The Times (live review)
Gorgeous, in a word Observer Music Monthly
A fresh and intriguing talent The Independent
Affecting soulful poignancy, a quietly impressive debut The Daily Telegraph
Enormous talent The Sunday Telegraph
An intense talent Time Out
In a world of musical clones, the Argentinian Swede is a thrillingly original new talent The Sun
It's an exquisite, almost solemn privilege to be invited into Gonzalez's world Metro
Extraordinary Uncut
The most intimate music you’ll hear all year Q
Dark, still, yet oddly powerful Mojo
Wonderfully accomplished... a serious talent to watch out for, this year
and beyond Clash
Jawdroppingly special, a rare talent Fact
TRACKLISTING:
Slow Moves
Remain
Lovestain
Heartbeats
Crosses
Deadweight On Velveteen
All You Deliver
Stay In The Shade
Hints
Save Your Day
Broken Arrows
Save Your Day
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More records from José González
1
José González - How Low
2
José González - Down The Line
3
José González - Killing For Love
4
José González - In Our Nature
5
José González - Teardrop
6
José González - Abram
7
José González - Time To Send Someone Away
8
José González - The Nest
9
José González - Fold
10
José González - Cycling Trivialities
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On his sophomore album, the Swedish singer and guitarist takes the basic elements of an acoustic troubadour's
craft and explores their possibilities, not only as ingredients of songs, but as sounds to be enjoyed in their own
right. A stray breath, the buzzing of guitar strings, a hand scraping across the frets: these are all shades in
González's palette. The biggest embellishment you're likely to hear is a metronomic foot-tap, subtle hand
percussion, or a backing vocal by Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagamo. Where the Knife's "haunted house" sound is
informed by minimal techno, González's lo-fi acoustic guitar music could be dubbed "minimal folk."
TRACKLISTING:
How Low
Down The Line
Killing For Love
In Our Nature
Teardrop
Abram
Time To Send Someone
Away
The Nest
Fold
Cycling Trivialities
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On his sophomore album, the Swedish singer and guitarist takes the basic elements of an acoustic troubadour's
craft and explores their possibilities, not only as ingredients of songs, but as sounds to be enjoyed in their own
right. A stray breath, the buzzing of guitar strings, a hand scraping across the frets: these are all shades in
González's palette. The biggest embellishment you're likely to hear is a metronomic foot-tap, subtle hand
percussion, or a backing vocal by Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagamo. Where the Knife's "haunted house" sound is
informed by minimal techno, González's lo-fi acoustic guitar music could be dubbed "minimal folk."
TRACKLISTING:
How Low
Down The Line
Killing For Love
In Our Nature
Teardrop
Abram
Time To Send Someone
Away
The Nest
Fold
Cycling Trivialities
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1
José González - With The Ink Of A Ghost
2
José González - Let It Carry You
3
José González - Stories We Build, Stories We Tell
4
José González - The Forest
5
José González - Leaf Off / The Cave
6
José González - Every Age
7
José González - What Will
8
José González - Vissel
9
José González - Afterglow
10
José González - Open Book
LP
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Sweden’s José González is just such a voice. He first charmed his way into the UK’s earshot via the murmurous and
elegant, classically finger-picked folk pop of his 2005 album, Veneer, which has since sold over a staggering 430, 000
copies in UK alone. Two years later came In Our Nature, a further exploration of José’s influences (Argentinian
Folklore, the ’60s US folk tradition and the British pastoral folk-pop style of the same era), on which he resisted the
temptation to beef up his alluringly introvert aesthetic. The albums made the UK Top 10 and Top 20 respectively.
It may be seven years since he released a solo record, but José has been anything but idle in that time. He’s delivered
two albums with the band Junip, his more fulsome, electronic-edged, pop project and has toured with both the
Berlin/Göteborg String Theory orchestra (in 2011), co-performing 11 reworking’s of his songs, Sidi Touré and played
with Malian desert blues troupe Tinariwen (both in 2012). In 2013, Hollywood came calling when Ben
Stiller commissioned José to work with Theodore Shapiro on the soundtrack to his remake of ‘The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty’ and most recently, he’s contributed his version of ‘This is How We Walk On the Moon’ to the Red Hot
charity compilation honouring Arthur Russell. Community and collaboration are obviously satisfying in their own ways,
but now José is again stepping centre stage solo, with Vestiges & Claws.
Conceived as the natural third part in an acoustic trilogy, Vestiges & Claws is a(nother) hushed and delicate solo set
that forefronts the artist and guitarist’s compellingly intimate vocal style and intricate playing technique, but it’s often
strikingly rhythmic in nature and cohere’s perfectly, with hand claps and taps on the body of his instrument underlining
the songs’ mantric rise-and-fall pattern, while elsewhere, over-dubbed guitar parts and multi-tracked vocal harmonies
entwine to sweetly immersive effect.
The title refers to both cultural practices and biological features that survive despite having lost their original function,
and to currently useful tools, ie the “claws” of modern life.
Vestiges & Claws was recorded almost entirely by José and self-produced, mostly in his Gothenburg home, using
computer plug-ins to achieve a warm, analogue sound. He prefers working alone, mainly for artistic reasons. “There
were a couple of things that enabled me to complete this record: one was curiosity, to be able to play percussion and
do a lot of harmonies and also to produce and mix the album; the other was aesthetics. I love to listen to Arthur Russell
and Shuggie Otis, to music that has been done mostly by one person in their solitary state.”
As José sees it, the record is his personal, “zoomed-out eye on humanity on a small, pale blue dot in a cold, sparse
and unfriendly space. The amazing fact that we are all here, an attempt at encouraging us to understand ourselves and
to make the best of the one life we know we have – after birth and before death."
TRACKLISTING:
With The Ink Of A Ghost
Let It Carry You
Stories We Build, Stories We Tell
The Forest
Leaf Off / The Cave
Every Age
What Will
Vissel
Afterglow
Open Book
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Territory: Sales Only to: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France
Sweden’s José González is just such a voice. He first charmed his way into the UK’s earshot via the murmurous and
elegant, classically finger-picked folk pop of his 2005 album, Veneer, which has since sold over a staggering 430, 000
copies in UK alone. Two years later came In Our Nature, a further exploration of José’s influences (Argentinian
Folklore, the ’60s US folk tradition and the British pastoral folk-pop style of the same era), on which he resisted the
temptation to beef up his alluringly introvert aesthetic. The albums made the UK Top 10 and Top 20 respectively.
It may be seven years since he released a solo record, but José has been anything but idle in that time. He’s delivered
two albums with the band Junip, his more fulsome, electronic-edged, pop project and has toured with both the
Berlin/Göteborg String Theory orchestra (in 2011), co-performing 11 reworking’s of his songs, Sidi Touré and played
with Malian desert blues troupe Tinariwen (both in 2012). In 2013, Hollywood came calling when Ben
Stiller commissioned José to work with Theodore Shapiro on the soundtrack to his remake of ‘The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty’ and most recently, he’s contributed his version of ‘This is How We Walk On the Moon’ to the Red Hot
charity compilation honouring Arthur Russell. Community and collaboration are obviously satisfying in their own ways,
but now José is again stepping centre stage solo, with Vestiges & Claws.
Conceived as the natural third part in an acoustic trilogy, Vestiges & Claws is a(nother) hushed and delicate solo set
that forefronts the artist and guitarist’s compellingly intimate vocal style and intricate playing technique, but it’s often
strikingly rhythmic in nature and cohere’s perfectly, with hand claps and taps on the body of his instrument underlining
the songs’ mantric rise-and-fall pattern, while elsewhere, over-dubbed guitar parts and multi-tracked vocal harmonies
entwine to sweetly immersive effect.
The title refers to both cultural practices and biological features that survive despite having lost their original function,
and to currently useful tools, ie the “claws” of modern life.
Vestiges & Claws was recorded almost entirely by José and self-produced, mostly in his Gothenburg home, using
computer plug-ins to achieve a warm, analogue sound. He prefers working alone, mainly for artistic reasons. “There
were a couple of things that enabled me to complete this record: one was curiosity, to be able to play percussion and
do a lot of harmonies and also to produce and mix the album; the other was aesthetics. I love to listen to Arthur Russell
and Shuggie Otis, to music that has been done mostly by one person in their solitary state.”
As José sees it, the record is his personal, “zoomed-out eye on humanity on a small, pale blue dot in a cold, sparse
and unfriendly space. The amazing fact that we are all here, an attempt at encouraging us to understand ourselves and
to make the best of the one life we know we have – after birth and before death."
TRACKLISTING:
With The Ink Of A Ghost
Let It Carry You
Stories We Build, Stories We Tell
The Forest
Leaf Off / The Cave
Every Age
What Will
Vissel
Afterglow
Open Book
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1
José González - 1. Slow Moves
2
José González - 2. Remain
3
José González - 3. Lovestain
4
José González - 4. Heartbeats
5
José González - 5. Crosses
6
José González - 6. Deadweight On Velveteen
7
José González - 7. All You Deliver
8
José González - 8. Stay In The Shade
9
José González - 9. Hints
10
José González - 10. Save Your Day
11
José González - 11. Broken Arrows
12
José González - 1. Deadweight On Velveteen (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
13
José González - 2. Save Your Day (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
14
José González - 3. Storm (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
15
José González - 4. Crosses (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
16
José González - 5. Hints (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
17
José González - 6. Suggestions (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
18
José González - 7. Heartbeats (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
19
José González - 8. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
20
José González - 9. All You Deliver (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
21
José González - 10. Stay In The Shade (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
22
José González - 11. Remain (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
23
José González - 12. Hand On Your Heart (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
24
José González - 13. Cello Song (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
Limited Hand Numbered 2LP Blue Vinyl with 24 page book
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”Twenty years ago, something magical happened. In the space between technology and ideology, two terms that have been
fighting each other to define the days that have come since, an album appeared. A collection of songs that seemed defiantly out
of place. Yet somehow these songs knew themselves. Which, thinking back on it now, better explains why their creator, a young
Swedish musician called José González, felt so familiar to us so quickly.” Zane Lowe on José González’ Veneer.
Today visionary singer-songwriter and guitarist José González has announced the release of a 20th Anniversary Deluxe version of his
uncompromising, candid, game-changing debut album (2003) Veneer. It features newly remastered audio of the seminal album as well as a
bonus disc, comprising 13 intimate recordings from his historic 2003 performance at Gothenburg Concert Hall.
The 20th Anniversary Deluxe Version of Veneer will see release on limited edition double blue vinyl and digitally on October 27th, 2023 via
Peacefrog Records. It features a hand-numbered gatefold and a 24-page booklet filled with archival photos, essays, a song-by-song guide
from José and more.
Veneer made an indelible mark in its understated, expressive brilliance and cemented José González as a meticulous sonic craftsman and
songwriter of singular talent. It’s hard to believe an album recorded with the most basic equipment in a cramped Gothenburg flat could end up
going platinum, not only in Sweden but also the UK, selling well over 1 million copies worldwide. It’s harder still when one acknowledges that,
aside from one brief trumpet solo and the slightest hint of percussion, the record features just one hushed voice and the dexterous picking of an
acoustic guitar’s nylon strings. But 2003’s Veneer was such an album, charting in several countries in the world, and eventually making Top 10
in the UK, thanks in part to its delicate, evocative cover of The Knife’s “Heartbeats”.
Praise for Veneer:
Magical... a supreme talent, reminiscent of the late Arthur Russell The Guardian
Veneer draws you in, it’s easy to believe that the young Swede could begin his own cult The Times
Spine-tingling The Sunday Times
Jose Gonzalez really is a rare find The Times (live review)
Gorgeous, in a word Observer Music Monthly
A fresh and intriguing talent The Independent
Affecting soulful poignancy, a quietly impressive debut The Daily Telegraph
Enormous talent The Sunday Telegraph
An intense talent Time Out
In a world of musical clones, the Argentinian Swede is a thrillingly original new talent The Sun
It's an exquisite, almost solemn privilege to be invited into Gonzalez's world Metro
Extraordinary Uncut
The most intimate music you’ll hear all year Q
Dark, still, yet oddly powerful Mojo
Wonderfully accomplished... a serious talent to watch out for, this year
and beyond Clash
Jawdroppingly special, a rare talent Fact
Tracklisting:
DISC 1: Veneer Remastered:
1. Slow Moves
2. Remain
3. Lovestain
4. Heartbeats
5. Crosses
6. Deadweight On Velveteen
7. All You Deliver
8. Stay In The Shade
9. Hints
10. Save Your Day
11. Broken Arrows
DISC 2: Live In Gothenburg 2003
1. Deadweight On Velveteen
2. Save Your Day
3. Storm
4. Crosses
5. Hints
6. Suggestions
7. Heartbeats
8. Love Will Tear Us Apart
9. All You Deliver
10. Stay In The Shade
11. Remain
12. Hand On Your Heart
13. Cello Song
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”Twenty years ago, something magical happened. In the space between technology and ideology, two terms that have been
fighting each other to define the days that have come since, an album appeared. A collection of songs that seemed defiantly out
of place. Yet somehow these songs knew themselves. Which, thinking back on it now, better explains why their creator, a young
Swedish musician called José González, felt so familiar to us so quickly.” Zane Lowe on José González’ Veneer.
Today visionary singer-songwriter and guitarist José González has announced the release of a 20th Anniversary Deluxe version of his
uncompromising, candid, game-changing debut album (2003) Veneer. It features newly remastered audio of the seminal album as well as a
bonus disc, comprising 13 intimate recordings from his historic 2003 performance at Gothenburg Concert Hall.
The 20th Anniversary Deluxe Version of Veneer will see release on limited edition double blue vinyl and digitally on October 27th, 2023 via
Peacefrog Records. It features a hand-numbered gatefold and a 24-page booklet filled with archival photos, essays, a song-by-song guide
from José and more.
Veneer made an indelible mark in its understated, expressive brilliance and cemented José González as a meticulous sonic craftsman and
songwriter of singular talent. It’s hard to believe an album recorded with the most basic equipment in a cramped Gothenburg flat could end up
going platinum, not only in Sweden but also the UK, selling well over 1 million copies worldwide. It’s harder still when one acknowledges that,
aside from one brief trumpet solo and the slightest hint of percussion, the record features just one hushed voice and the dexterous picking of an
acoustic guitar’s nylon strings. But 2003’s Veneer was such an album, charting in several countries in the world, and eventually making Top 10
in the UK, thanks in part to its delicate, evocative cover of The Knife’s “Heartbeats”.
Praise for Veneer:
Magical... a supreme talent, reminiscent of the late Arthur Russell The Guardian
Veneer draws you in, it’s easy to believe that the young Swede could begin his own cult The Times
Spine-tingling The Sunday Times
Jose Gonzalez really is a rare find The Times (live review)
Gorgeous, in a word Observer Music Monthly
A fresh and intriguing talent The Independent
Affecting soulful poignancy, a quietly impressive debut The Daily Telegraph
Enormous talent The Sunday Telegraph
An intense talent Time Out
In a world of musical clones, the Argentinian Swede is a thrillingly original new talent The Sun
It's an exquisite, almost solemn privilege to be invited into Gonzalez's world Metro
Extraordinary Uncut
The most intimate music you’ll hear all year Q
Dark, still, yet oddly powerful Mojo
Wonderfully accomplished... a serious talent to watch out for, this year
and beyond Clash
Jawdroppingly special, a rare talent Fact
Tracklisting:
DISC 1: Veneer Remastered:
1. Slow Moves
2. Remain
3. Lovestain
4. Heartbeats
5. Crosses
6. Deadweight On Velveteen
7. All You Deliver
8. Stay In The Shade
9. Hints
10. Save Your Day
11. Broken Arrows
DISC 2: Live In Gothenburg 2003
1. Deadweight On Velveteen
2. Save Your Day
3. Storm
4. Crosses
5. Hints
6. Suggestions
7. Heartbeats
8. Love Will Tear Us Apart
9. All You Deliver
10. Stay In The Shade
11. Remain
12. Hand On Your Heart
13. Cello Song
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More records from Peacefrog Records
Format Details: 35th Anniversary Edition obi strip. Smokey Vinyl 2LP.
Listen Link: https://open.spotify.com/album/4C7ElGvtR8zpI19ixN8Y8G?si=aG4kEAvDSzaeH3b830PL6A
Tracklist
Black Slaves = Israel
Sun, Moon & 12 Stars (Guess Who Mix)
Keep The Hidden Treasures (Tech-No Jaz Mix)
Servants Jaz House
H-Dance
Negro Cry
To The King O.I
There Is A Time
Trance O Israel
There Is A Time
OVERVIEW:
Glenn Underground is the founding member of the Strictly Jaz Unit. He was raised on disco classics and freeform jazz in Chicago's Southside, the place where house music was born. Taking inspiration from Chicago's original pioneers, Larry Heard, Ron Hardy, Lil' Louis, and the like, Glenn has produced many sought after house gems for some of the most well respected deep house labels such as Prescription and Guidance. The Jerusalem EP's, GU's second album for Peacefrog originally released in 1997 still sounds so fresh, so deep and so soulful. Blending jazz-tinged chord progressions with sax accents, and rolling basslines the album evokes the sound of late-’90s hypnotic Chicago house. Timeless, quality, underground house music for the mind, the body and especially the soul.
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Listen Link: https://open.spotify.com/album/4C7ElGvtR8zpI19ixN8Y8G?si=aG4kEAvDSzaeH3b830PL6A
Tracklist
Black Slaves = Israel
Sun, Moon & 12 Stars (Guess Who Mix)
Keep The Hidden Treasures (Tech-No Jaz Mix)
Servants Jaz House
H-Dance
Negro Cry
To The King O.I
There Is A Time
Trance O Israel
There Is A Time
OVERVIEW:
Glenn Underground is the founding member of the Strictly Jaz Unit. He was raised on disco classics and freeform jazz in Chicago's Southside, the place where house music was born. Taking inspiration from Chicago's original pioneers, Larry Heard, Ron Hardy, Lil' Louis, and the like, Glenn has produced many sought after house gems for some of the most well respected deep house labels such as Prescription and Guidance. The Jerusalem EP's, GU's second album for Peacefrog originally released in 1997 still sounds so fresh, so deep and so soulful. Blending jazz-tinged chord progressions with sax accents, and rolling basslines the album evokes the sound of late-’90s hypnotic Chicago house. Timeless, quality, underground house music for the mind, the body and especially the soul.
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Format Details: 35th Anniversary Edition obi strip. Smokey Vinyl 2LP.
Listen Link: https://open.spotify.com/album/3yAlW3nGdarm5HxZfHBuLZ?si=nRooQgztRCeccKeBmTdZGQ
Tracklist:
Hour Glass Figure
Fantasise
4 The World
Time Of Love
Caught Up In Your Love
Bump Talkin
Bouncing Bed Springs
Autobahn Cruise
Tenacious
OVERVIEW:
Born and raised in the birthplace of House Music, Paul Johnson was known for his raw, soulful, and infectious sound, that helped shape Chicago's house scene and inspired generations of DJs worldwide in particular he was a massive inspiration to Daft Punk and the 'French Touch' scene.
Releasing a vast amount of music throughout the 1990s for some of the most consistently underground dance labels including legendary Chicago imprints Cajual, Relief and Dance Mania he finally gained global fame with his 1999 hit “Get Get Down,” a dancefloor anthem that topped charts across Europe. Despite facing physical challenges, including losing both legs in accidents, he remained an unstoppable force in music—touring, producing, and uplifting others with his resilient spirit and signature groove. Re-pressed for our 35th anniversary, Paul Johnson’s classic 1995 debut album on Peacefrog, Bump Talkin is a timeless showcase of Paul’s signature deep, soulful house sound, blending irresistible peak-time, piano-driven anthems with a playful touch of bouncy Ghetto House energy. They dont make em like this anymore... RIP Paul Johnson.
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Listen Link: https://open.spotify.com/album/3yAlW3nGdarm5HxZfHBuLZ?si=nRooQgztRCeccKeBmTdZGQ
Tracklist:
Hour Glass Figure
Fantasise
4 The World
Time Of Love
Caught Up In Your Love
Bump Talkin
Bouncing Bed Springs
Autobahn Cruise
Tenacious
OVERVIEW:
Born and raised in the birthplace of House Music, Paul Johnson was known for his raw, soulful, and infectious sound, that helped shape Chicago's house scene and inspired generations of DJs worldwide in particular he was a massive inspiration to Daft Punk and the 'French Touch' scene.
Releasing a vast amount of music throughout the 1990s for some of the most consistently underground dance labels including legendary Chicago imprints Cajual, Relief and Dance Mania he finally gained global fame with his 1999 hit “Get Get Down,” a dancefloor anthem that topped charts across Europe. Despite facing physical challenges, including losing both legs in accidents, he remained an unstoppable force in music—touring, producing, and uplifting others with his resilient spirit and signature groove. Re-pressed for our 35th anniversary, Paul Johnson’s classic 1995 debut album on Peacefrog, Bump Talkin is a timeless showcase of Paul’s signature deep, soulful house sound, blending irresistible peak-time, piano-driven anthems with a playful touch of bouncy Ghetto House energy. They dont make em like this anymore... RIP Paul Johnson.
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TRACKLIST:
1. Israelee
2. Night Falls
3. Entercourse Of The New Age
4. Rising Son
5. May
6. Datroit Colouration
7. Dance Slam
8. Sound Struck
9. Midnight Groove
LP FORMAT DETAILS: VINYL - 35th Anniversary Edition of Peacefrog - 2LP Smokey Vinyl
PRIVATE LISTEN LINK: https://shorturl.at/CUtlY
OVERVIEW:
Glenn Underground is the founding member of the Strictly Jaz Unit. He was raised on disco classics and freeform jazz in Chicago's Southside, the place where house music was born. Taking inspiration from Chicago's original pioneers, Larry Heard, Ron Hardy, Lil' Louis, and the like, Glennhas produced many sought after house gems for some of the most well respected deep house labels such as Prescription and Guidance. 'Atmosfear' Glenn Underground's debut album was originally released in 1996 and set the standard for sophisticated dance music. Dreamy melodies, heavy bass lines and acid grooves blend beautifully with jazz vibes and Detroit techno. Essential!
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1. Israelee
2. Night Falls
3. Entercourse Of The New Age
4. Rising Son
5. May
6. Datroit Colouration
7. Dance Slam
8. Sound Struck
9. Midnight Groove
LP FORMAT DETAILS: VINYL - 35th Anniversary Edition of Peacefrog - 2LP Smokey Vinyl
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OVERVIEW:
Glenn Underground is the founding member of the Strictly Jaz Unit. He was raised on disco classics and freeform jazz in Chicago's Southside, the place where house music was born. Taking inspiration from Chicago's original pioneers, Larry Heard, Ron Hardy, Lil' Louis, and the like, Glennhas produced many sought after house gems for some of the most well respected deep house labels such as Prescription and Guidance. 'Atmosfear' Glenn Underground's debut album was originally released in 1996 and set the standard for sophisticated dance music. Dreamy melodies, heavy bass lines and acid grooves blend beautifully with jazz vibes and Detroit techno. Essential!
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Paul Johnson - Relax With Me
2
Paul Johnson - A Little Suntin Suntin
3
Paul Johnson - You Make Me Say Do Be Do
4
Paul Johnson - Hear The Music
5
Paul Johnson - About Your Love
6
Paul Johnson - Summer Heat
7
Paul Johnson - I Wonder Why
8
Paul Johnson - The Groove
TRACKLIST:
1. Relax With Me 04:46
2. A Little Suntin Suntin 05:37
3. You Make Me Say Do Be Do 04:40
4. Hear The Music 05:21
5. About Your Love 04:56
6. Summer Heat 05:28
7. I Wonder Why 05:24
8. The Groove 04:16
LP FORMAT DETAILS: 35th Anniversary Edition of Peacefrog - 2LP Smokey Vinyl
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OVERVIEW:
Born and raised in the birthplace of House Music, Paul Johnson was known for his raw, soulful, and infectious sound, that helped shape Chicago's house scene and inspired generations of DJs worldwide in particular he was a massive inspiration to Daft Punk and the 'French Touch' scene. Releasing a vast amount of music throughout the 1990s for some of the most consistently underground dance labels including legendary Chicago imprints Cajual, Relief and Dance Mania he finally gained global fame with his 1999 hit "Get Get Down," a dancefloor anthem that topped charts across Europe. Despite facing physical challenges, including losing both legs in accidents, he remained an unstoppable force in music-touring, producing, and uplifting others with his resilient spirit and signature groove. Originally released in 1996 Feel The Music was Paul's second album for Peacefrog Records. Containing some of the classiest house music to hail from the Windy City. Classics such A Little Suntin Suntin , Summer Heat and I Wonder Why will have you smiling while you're jackin' and the irresistible and infectious Hear The Music was fthe opening track for Daft Punks legendary Radio 1 Essential Mix.
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1. Relax With Me 04:46
2. A Little Suntin Suntin 05:37
3. You Make Me Say Do Be Do 04:40
4. Hear The Music 05:21
5. About Your Love 04:56
6. Summer Heat 05:28
7. I Wonder Why 05:24
8. The Groove 04:16
LP FORMAT DETAILS: 35th Anniversary Edition of Peacefrog - 2LP Smokey Vinyl
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OVERVIEW:
Born and raised in the birthplace of House Music, Paul Johnson was known for his raw, soulful, and infectious sound, that helped shape Chicago's house scene and inspired generations of DJs worldwide in particular he was a massive inspiration to Daft Punk and the 'French Touch' scene. Releasing a vast amount of music throughout the 1990s for some of the most consistently underground dance labels including legendary Chicago imprints Cajual, Relief and Dance Mania he finally gained global fame with his 1999 hit "Get Get Down," a dancefloor anthem that topped charts across Europe. Despite facing physical challenges, including losing both legs in accidents, he remained an unstoppable force in music-touring, producing, and uplifting others with his resilient spirit and signature groove. Originally released in 1996 Feel The Music was Paul's second album for Peacefrog Records. Containing some of the classiest house music to hail from the Windy City. Classics such A Little Suntin Suntin , Summer Heat and I Wonder Why will have you smiling while you're jackin' and the irresistible and infectious Hear The Music was fthe opening track for Daft Punks legendary Radio 1 Essential Mix.
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“ Originally released in 1998 "First Floor” is Detroit/Chicago auteur Theo Parrish’s debut album. Released on vinyl in two parts for maximum playability; the raw bluesy, soulful offbeat grooves have long since buried themselves deep under the skin of the house community. ”
Private Listening Link: https://on.soundcloud.com/IoiiJGy2hzXDqzvvGI
Tracklist:
First Floor Metaphor
Only The Beginning
Sweet Sticky
Paradise Architects
Love Is War For Miles
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Tracklist:
First Floor Metaphor
Only The Beginning
Sweet Sticky
Paradise Architects
Love Is War For Miles
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Tracklist:
Electric Alleycat
JB's Edit
Dark Patterns
Heal Yourself And Move
Sky Walking
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Tracklist:
Electric Alleycat
JB's Edit
Dark Patterns
Heal Yourself And Move
Sky Walking
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TRACKLIST:
When She Follows (Original 18 Minute Version) Rectify Dirty Little Bonus Beats When She (Reprise)
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OVERVIEW:
Released in limited numbers in tandem with Black Mahogani back in 2004 and never repressed. Black Mahogani II was a departure from Kenny Dixon Jr's usual house based music and featured cuts from Kenny Dixon Jr's late night jazz band sessions The centrepiece is the eighteen minute 'When She Follows', a deep jazz session skittering live drum rolls into an electric Fender Rhodes, loping acoustic bass and distant saxophone all wrapped up in an amorphous vocal that drifts ever onwards like some epic detroit techno cut replayed by Gil Scott Heron's band in 1970. Incredible music. 'Rectify' follows in a similar mode, jazz in a detroit techno framework, while the final two tracks 'Dirty Little Bonus Beats' and 'When She (Reprise)' are revisions of the main cut, the former altering the bassline, adding vocal sighs and more rhythmic drums, while the latter shifts up the tempo with a wigged out techno synth element. Stone, cold.
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Holiday Roberta Jean Machine I Need You So Much Runaway I'm Doing Fine Shades Of Jae Riley's Song Back At Bakers (On Livernois) Mahogani 9000 Black Mahogani
LP FORMAT DETAILS: Smokey colour vinyl 3LP with obi-strip
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OVERVIEW:
It’s been over 20 years since Kenny Dixon Jr., better known as Moodymann, released Black Mahogani—an album rich in atmosphere and emotion, offering a quintessential journey through deep house, soul, and jazz. Timeless yet modern, it’s an immersive and emotionally resonant experience that reflects the singular character of Detroit’s deep musical heritage. Originally released in 2004, Black Mahogani is arguably one of Moodymann’s most revered and sought-after works. It completes the puzzle laid out by his rare and elusive KDJ 12” releases from the mid to late '90s. With the help of Detroit legends like the late Amp Fiddler, Roberta Sweed, and Norma Jean Bell, Dixon infused his analog soundscapes and samples with a new organic warmth—expanding the deep house genre while simultaneously paying homage to 1970s soul and cinematic soundtracks. Dixon’s masterful control of tension—knowing exactly when to hold back and when to let go—makes Black Mahogani an enduring masterpiece. It's not just a landmark in electronic music, but a definitive statement in 21st-century Black American music.
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Holiday Roberta Jean Machine I Need You So Much Runaway I'm Doing Fine Shades Of Jae Riley's Song Back At Bakers (On Livernois) Mahogani 9000 Black Mahogani
LP FORMAT DETAILS: Smokey colour vinyl 3LP with obi-strip
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OVERVIEW:
It’s been over 20 years since Kenny Dixon Jr., better known as Moodymann, released Black Mahogani—an album rich in atmosphere and emotion, offering a quintessential journey through deep house, soul, and jazz. Timeless yet modern, it’s an immersive and emotionally resonant experience that reflects the singular character of Detroit’s deep musical heritage. Originally released in 2004, Black Mahogani is arguably one of Moodymann’s most revered and sought-after works. It completes the puzzle laid out by his rare and elusive KDJ 12” releases from the mid to late '90s. With the help of Detroit legends like the late Amp Fiddler, Roberta Sweed, and Norma Jean Bell, Dixon infused his analog soundscapes and samples with a new organic warmth—expanding the deep house genre while simultaneously paying homage to 1970s soul and cinematic soundtracks. Dixon’s masterful control of tension—knowing exactly when to hold back and when to let go—makes Black Mahogani an enduring masterpiece. It's not just a landmark in electronic music, but a definitive statement in 21st-century Black American music.
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A landmark in Detroit deep house, Forevernevermore is Moodymann’s second full-length album on Peacefrog Records. This 2000 release sees Kenny Dixon Jr. at his most soulful and experimental, blending dusty samples, live instrumentation, and hypnotic grooves into a deeply personal sonic collage. Drawing from his earlier KDJ releases, the album reimagines rare cuts into a cohesive, emotionally rich journey through love, loss, and the spirit of the Motor City. Essential for fans of deep, narrative-driven house music.
Smokey 2LP with limited edition Obi Stip to celebrate the labels 35 year anniversary
TRACKLIST:
1.Meanwhile Back At Home
2.Wednesday Night People
3.The Set Up
4.Don't You Want My Love
5.(Logo)
6.Your Sweet Lovin
7.The Thief That Stole My Sad Days (Ya Blessin Me)
8.Forevernevermore
9.Tribute
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A landmark in Detroit deep house, Forevernevermore is Moodymann’s second full-length album on Peacefrog Records. This 2000 release sees Kenny Dixon Jr. at his most soulful and experimental, blending dusty samples, live instrumentation, and hypnotic grooves into a deeply personal sonic collage. Drawing from his earlier KDJ releases, the album reimagines rare cuts into a cohesive, emotionally rich journey through love, loss, and the spirit of the Motor City. Essential for fans of deep, narrative-driven house music.
Smokey 2LP with limited edition Obi Stip to celebrate the labels 35 year anniversary
TRACKLIST:
1.Meanwhile Back At Home
2.Wednesday Night People
3.The Set Up
4.Don't You Want My Love
5.(Logo)
6.Your Sweet Lovin
7.The Thief That Stole My Sad Days (Ya Blessin Me)
8.Forevernevermore
9.Tribute
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TRACKLIST:
A1. Entrance To The Garden
A2. People
A3. Backagainforthefirsttime?
B1. LiveinLA 1998
B2. P.B.C.
B3. Shine
C1. Yesterdays Party Watta Bout It
C2. Silence In The Secret Garden
D1. On My Way Home
D2. Sweet Yesterday
LP FORMAT DETAILS: 2LP Smokey colour w/ limited addition with Obi Strip
Silence In The Secret Garden is an intensly personal and spiritual journey into the heart & soul of black music.
From the reckless dark minimalism of the title track Silence In The Secret Garden to the irresistible funk of Yesterday’s Party… this classicalbum has continued to surprise and inspire.
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TRACKLIST:
A1. Entrance To The Garden
A2. People
A3. Backagainforthefirsttime?
B1. LiveinLA 1998
B2. P.B.C.
B3. Shine
C1. Yesterdays Party Watta Bout It
C2. Silence In The Secret Garden
D1. On My Way Home
D2. Sweet Yesterday
LP FORMAT DETAILS: 2LP Smokey colour w/ limited addition with Obi Strip
Silence In The Secret Garden is an intensly personal and spiritual journey into the heart & soul of black music.
From the reckless dark minimalism of the title track Silence In The Secret Garden to the irresistible funk of Yesterday’s Party… this classicalbum has continued to surprise and inspire.
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Little Dragon - Twice
2
Little Dragon - Turn Left
3
Little Dragon - No Love
4
Little Dragon - Recommendation
5
Little Dragon - Constant Surprises
6
Little Dragon - Forever
7
Little Dragon - After The Rain
8
Little Dragon - Place To Belong
9
Little Dragon - Stormy Weather
10
Little Dragon - Test
11
Little Dragon - Wink
12
Little Dragon - Scribbled Paper
LP: Black Vinyl With printed inner
Territory: No sales to: Japan, UK, Eire, Benelux and Americas
The debut album from soulful electronic pioneers Little Dragon originally released in 2007 was initially a record
slept on as no one in their right mind would have expected the future of soul music to come from Gothenburg,
Sweden. But there it is in the dreamy, rhythmical, shifting, moody rainbow creature that is Little Dragon. With
hindsight it is easy to see why some of the world’s top musical luminaries went onto fall over themselves to work
with them.
Includes the must own classics “Twice”; a master class in low key pop, with a sparse piano line offset by classy
strings and woozy synth wobbles; it is restrained, but never detached (over 100 million streams across multiple
DSPs) and “Constant Surprises” where Yukimi’s delicious vocal skips and glides atop hi-hats and bubbling bass
laying down the bands distinct soulful credentials (30 million streams)
Tracklist:
Twice
Turn Left
No Love
Recommendation
Constant Surprises
Forever
After The Rain
Place To Belong
Stormy Weather
Test
Wink
Scribbled Paper
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The debut album from soulful electronic pioneers Little Dragon originally released in 2007 was initially a record
slept on as no one in their right mind would have expected the future of soul music to come from Gothenburg,
Sweden. But there it is in the dreamy, rhythmical, shifting, moody rainbow creature that is Little Dragon. With
hindsight it is easy to see why some of the world’s top musical luminaries went onto fall over themselves to work
with them.
Includes the must own classics “Twice”; a master class in low key pop, with a sparse piano line offset by classy
strings and woozy synth wobbles; it is restrained, but never detached (over 100 million streams across multiple
DSPs) and “Constant Surprises” where Yukimi’s delicious vocal skips and glides atop hi-hats and bubbling bass
laying down the bands distinct soulful credentials (30 million streams)
Tracklist:
Twice
Turn Left
No Love
Recommendation
Constant Surprises
Forever
After The Rain
Place To Belong
Stormy Weather
Test
Wink
Scribbled Paper
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Little Dragon - A New
2
Little Dragon - Looking Glass
3
Little Dragon - My Step
4
Little Dragon - Feather
5
Little Dragon - Thunder Love
6
Little Dragon - Never Never
7
Little Dragon - Runabout
8
Little Dragon - Swimming
9
Little Dragon - Blinking Pigs
10
Little Dragon - Come Home
11
Little Dragon - Fortune
LP
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Little Dragon return with a spectacular second album offering in the fall, a pulsating electro pop epic
that Prince would be proud of! Machine Dreams, with its nagging hooks and gloriously infectious tunes, should finally see the
band break out into the mainstream. Having toured relentlessly since the last record, Little Dragon found themselves to be very
popular on the West coast. After appearing on KCRW’s popular ‘Morning Becomes Eclectic’ show, their album became the
most played on the station after Radiohead. No mean feat for the little dragons from Sweden, especially when the record was
only release digitally! The track ‘Twice’ even got played on hit ABC show Grey’s Anatomy, and After The Rain got licensed to
the Hollwywood motion picture 'The Women' starring Meg Ryan. The band soon came to the attention of David Sitek who
became an instant fan (as did notorious basement dweller DJ Shadow) and he wasted no time asking them to support TV On
The Radio on their US tour in May 2009.
Tracklist:
A New
Looking Glass
My Step
Feather
Thunder Love
Never Never
Runabout
Swimming
Blinking Pigs
Come Home
Fortune
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Little Dragon return with a spectacular second album offering in the fall, a pulsating electro pop epic
that Prince would be proud of! Machine Dreams, with its nagging hooks and gloriously infectious tunes, should finally see the
band break out into the mainstream. Having toured relentlessly since the last record, Little Dragon found themselves to be very
popular on the West coast. After appearing on KCRW’s popular ‘Morning Becomes Eclectic’ show, their album became the
most played on the station after Radiohead. No mean feat for the little dragons from Sweden, especially when the record was
only release digitally! The track ‘Twice’ even got played on hit ABC show Grey’s Anatomy, and After The Rain got licensed to
the Hollwywood motion picture 'The Women' starring Meg Ryan. The band soon came to the attention of David Sitek who
became an instant fan (as did notorious basement dweller DJ Shadow) and he wasted no time asking them to support TV On
The Radio on their US tour in May 2009.
Tracklist:
A New
Looking Glass
My Step
Feather
Thunder Love
Never Never
Runabout
Swimming
Blinking Pigs
Come Home
Fortune
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Little Dragon - Ritual Union
2
Little Dragon - Little Man
3
Little Dragon - Brush The Heat
4
Little Dragon - Shuffle A Dream
5
Little Dragon - Please Turn
6
Little Dragon - Crystalfilm
7
Little Dragon - Precious
8
Little Dragon - Nightlight
9
Little Dragon - Summertearz
10
Little Dragon - When I Go Out
LP
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Since 2009’s critically acclaimed Machine Dreams they have not sat still, touring the globe and making some high profile friends along the way.
No one in their right mind would have expected the future of soul music to come from Gothenburg, Sweden. But there it is in the dreamy, rhythmical, shifting, moody rainbow creature
that is Little Dragon. It is easy to see why some of the world’s top musical luminaries are falling over themselves to work with them. Stylishly seductive in their own right, their 2007 selftitled debut was filled with classy songwriting and cool production, with the stunning track ‘Twice’ getting played on Grey’s Anatomy and countless adverts since it’s release. Machine
Dreams showed a bouncier side, as they flexed their dancing nous and came up with an album that would turn Prince’s head.
Damon Albarn invited them to collaborate on two tracks for last year’s Gorillaz record Plastic Beach, which became album highlights for the critics with Pitchfork describing the songs
‘Empire Ants’ and ‘To Binge’ as “two of the most arresting things here; they’re airy, elusive and amazingly beautiful”.
Little Dragon started 2011 with a headlining tour of the U.S. and a performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in March, thanks to a recommendation from super-fan Questlove of
The Roots. In May, the band appeared on the track ‘Just Don’t’ from Raphael Saadiq’s Stone Rollin’, a record some are already calling the album of the year. Then Big Boi and DJ
Shadow called to invite the group to work on new music.
TRACKLISTING:
1. Ritual Union
2. Little Man
3. Brush The Heat
4. Shuffle A Dream
5. Please Turn
6. Crystalfilm
7. Precious
8. Nightlight
9. Summertearz
10. When I Go Out
11. Seconds
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Since 2009’s critically acclaimed Machine Dreams they have not sat still, touring the globe and making some high profile friends along the way.
No one in their right mind would have expected the future of soul music to come from Gothenburg, Sweden. But there it is in the dreamy, rhythmical, shifting, moody rainbow creature
that is Little Dragon. It is easy to see why some of the world’s top musical luminaries are falling over themselves to work with them. Stylishly seductive in their own right, their 2007 selftitled debut was filled with classy songwriting and cool production, with the stunning track ‘Twice’ getting played on Grey’s Anatomy and countless adverts since it’s release. Machine
Dreams showed a bouncier side, as they flexed their dancing nous and came up with an album that would turn Prince’s head.
Damon Albarn invited them to collaborate on two tracks for last year’s Gorillaz record Plastic Beach, which became album highlights for the critics with Pitchfork describing the songs
‘Empire Ants’ and ‘To Binge’ as “two of the most arresting things here; they’re airy, elusive and amazingly beautiful”.
Little Dragon started 2011 with a headlining tour of the U.S. and a performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in March, thanks to a recommendation from super-fan Questlove of
The Roots. In May, the band appeared on the track ‘Just Don’t’ from Raphael Saadiq’s Stone Rollin’, a record some are already calling the album of the year. Then Big Boi and DJ
Shadow called to invite the group to work on new music.
TRACKLISTING:
1. Ritual Union
2. Little Man
3. Brush The Heat
4. Shuffle A Dream
5. Please Turn
6. Crystalfilm
7. Precious
8. Nightlight
9. Summertearz
10. When I Go Out
11. Seconds
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José González - How Low
2
José González - Down The Line
3
José González - Killing For Love
4
José González - In Our Nature
5
José González - Teardrop
6
José González - Abram
7
José González - Time To Send Someone Away
8
José González - The Nest
9
José González - Fold
10
José González - Cycling Trivialities
LP, Black vinyl with Printed Inner
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On his sophomore album, the Swedish singer and guitarist takes the basic elements of an acoustic troubadour's
craft and explores their possibilities, not only as ingredients of songs, but as sounds to be enjoyed in their own
right. A stray breath, the buzzing of guitar strings, a hand scraping across the frets: these are all shades in
González's palette. The biggest embellishment you're likely to hear is a metronomic foot-tap, subtle hand
percussion, or a backing vocal by Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagamo. Where the Knife's "haunted house" sound is
informed by minimal techno, González's lo-fi acoustic guitar music could be dubbed "minimal folk."
TRACKLISTING:
How Low
Down The Line
Killing For Love
In Our Nature
Teardrop
Abram
Time To Send Someone
Away
The Nest
Fold
Cycling Trivialities
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On his sophomore album, the Swedish singer and guitarist takes the basic elements of an acoustic troubadour's
craft and explores their possibilities, not only as ingredients of songs, but as sounds to be enjoyed in their own
right. A stray breath, the buzzing of guitar strings, a hand scraping across the frets: these are all shades in
González's palette. The biggest embellishment you're likely to hear is a metronomic foot-tap, subtle hand
percussion, or a backing vocal by Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagamo. Where the Knife's "haunted house" sound is
informed by minimal techno, González's lo-fi acoustic guitar music could be dubbed "minimal folk."
TRACKLISTING:
How Low
Down The Line
Killing For Love
In Our Nature
Teardrop
Abram
Time To Send Someone
Away
The Nest
Fold
Cycling Trivialities
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José González - With The Ink Of A Ghost
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José González - Let It Carry You
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José González - Stories We Build, Stories We Tell
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José González - The Forest
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José González - Leaf Off / The Cave
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José González - Every Age
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José González - What Will
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José González - Vissel
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José González - Afterglow
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José González - Open Book
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Sweden’s José González is just such a voice. He first charmed his way into the UK’s earshot via the murmurous and
elegant, classically finger-picked folk pop of his 2005 album, Veneer, which has since sold over a staggering 430, 000
copies in UK alone. Two years later came In Our Nature, a further exploration of José’s influences (Argentinian
Folklore, the ’60s US folk tradition and the British pastoral folk-pop style of the same era), on which he resisted the
temptation to beef up his alluringly introvert aesthetic. The albums made the UK Top 10 and Top 20 respectively.
It may be seven years since he released a solo record, but José has been anything but idle in that time. He’s delivered
two albums with the band Junip, his more fulsome, electronic-edged, pop project and has toured with both the
Berlin/Göteborg String Theory orchestra (in 2011), co-performing 11 reworking’s of his songs, Sidi Touré and played
with Malian desert blues troupe Tinariwen (both in 2012). In 2013, Hollywood came calling when Ben
Stiller commissioned José to work with Theodore Shapiro on the soundtrack to his remake of ‘The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty’ and most recently, he’s contributed his version of ‘This is How We Walk On the Moon’ to the Red Hot
charity compilation honouring Arthur Russell. Community and collaboration are obviously satisfying in their own ways,
but now José is again stepping centre stage solo, with Vestiges & Claws.
Conceived as the natural third part in an acoustic trilogy, Vestiges & Claws is a(nother) hushed and delicate solo set
that forefronts the artist and guitarist’s compellingly intimate vocal style and intricate playing technique, but it’s often
strikingly rhythmic in nature and cohere’s perfectly, with hand claps and taps on the body of his instrument underlining
the songs’ mantric rise-and-fall pattern, while elsewhere, over-dubbed guitar parts and multi-tracked vocal harmonies
entwine to sweetly immersive effect.
The title refers to both cultural practices and biological features that survive despite having lost their original function,
and to currently useful tools, ie the “claws” of modern life.
Vestiges & Claws was recorded almost entirely by José and self-produced, mostly in his Gothenburg home, using
computer plug-ins to achieve a warm, analogue sound. He prefers working alone, mainly for artistic reasons. “There
were a couple of things that enabled me to complete this record: one was curiosity, to be able to play percussion and
do a lot of harmonies and also to produce and mix the album; the other was aesthetics. I love to listen to Arthur Russell
and Shuggie Otis, to music that has been done mostly by one person in their solitary state.”
As José sees it, the record is his personal, “zoomed-out eye on humanity on a small, pale blue dot in a cold, sparse
and unfriendly space. The amazing fact that we are all here, an attempt at encouraging us to understand ourselves and
to make the best of the one life we know we have – after birth and before death."
TRACKLISTING:
With The Ink Of A Ghost
Let It Carry You
Stories We Build, Stories We Tell
The Forest
Leaf Off / The Cave
Every Age
What Will
Vissel
Afterglow
Open Book
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Sweden’s José González is just such a voice. He first charmed his way into the UK’s earshot via the murmurous and
elegant, classically finger-picked folk pop of his 2005 album, Veneer, which has since sold over a staggering 430, 000
copies in UK alone. Two years later came In Our Nature, a further exploration of José’s influences (Argentinian
Folklore, the ’60s US folk tradition and the British pastoral folk-pop style of the same era), on which he resisted the
temptation to beef up his alluringly introvert aesthetic. The albums made the UK Top 10 and Top 20 respectively.
It may be seven years since he released a solo record, but José has been anything but idle in that time. He’s delivered
two albums with the band Junip, his more fulsome, electronic-edged, pop project and has toured with both the
Berlin/Göteborg String Theory orchestra (in 2011), co-performing 11 reworking’s of his songs, Sidi Touré and played
with Malian desert blues troupe Tinariwen (both in 2012). In 2013, Hollywood came calling when Ben
Stiller commissioned José to work with Theodore Shapiro on the soundtrack to his remake of ‘The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty’ and most recently, he’s contributed his version of ‘This is How We Walk On the Moon’ to the Red Hot
charity compilation honouring Arthur Russell. Community and collaboration are obviously satisfying in their own ways,
but now José is again stepping centre stage solo, with Vestiges & Claws.
Conceived as the natural third part in an acoustic trilogy, Vestiges & Claws is a(nother) hushed and delicate solo set
that forefronts the artist and guitarist’s compellingly intimate vocal style and intricate playing technique, but it’s often
strikingly rhythmic in nature and cohere’s perfectly, with hand claps and taps on the body of his instrument underlining
the songs’ mantric rise-and-fall pattern, while elsewhere, over-dubbed guitar parts and multi-tracked vocal harmonies
entwine to sweetly immersive effect.
The title refers to both cultural practices and biological features that survive despite having lost their original function,
and to currently useful tools, ie the “claws” of modern life.
Vestiges & Claws was recorded almost entirely by José and self-produced, mostly in his Gothenburg home, using
computer plug-ins to achieve a warm, analogue sound. He prefers working alone, mainly for artistic reasons. “There
were a couple of things that enabled me to complete this record: one was curiosity, to be able to play percussion and
do a lot of harmonies and also to produce and mix the album; the other was aesthetics. I love to listen to Arthur Russell
and Shuggie Otis, to music that has been done mostly by one person in their solitary state.”
As José sees it, the record is his personal, “zoomed-out eye on humanity on a small, pale blue dot in a cold, sparse
and unfriendly space. The amazing fact that we are all here, an attempt at encouraging us to understand ourselves and
to make the best of the one life we know we have – after birth and before death."
TRACKLISTING:
With The Ink Of A Ghost
Let It Carry You
Stories We Build, Stories We Tell
The Forest
Leaf Off / The Cave
Every Age
What Will
Vissel
Afterglow
Open Book
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José González - 1. Slow Moves
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José González - 2. Remain
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José González - 3. Lovestain
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José González - 4. Heartbeats
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José González - 5. Crosses
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José González - 6. Deadweight On Velveteen
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José González - 7. All You Deliver
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José González - 8. Stay In The Shade
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José González - 9. Hints
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José González - 10. Save Your Day
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José González - 11. Broken Arrows
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José González - 1. Deadweight On Velveteen (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
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José González - 2. Save Your Day (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
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José González - 3. Storm (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
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José González - 4. Crosses (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
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José González - 5. Hints (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
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José González - 6. Suggestions (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
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José González - 7. Heartbeats (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
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José González - 8. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
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José González - 9. All You Deliver (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
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José González - 10. Stay In The Shade (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
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José González - 11. Remain (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
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José González - 12. Hand On Your Heart (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
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José González - 13. Cello Song (Live In Gothenburg 2003)
Limited Hand Numbered 2LP Blue Vinyl with 24 page book
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”Twenty years ago, something magical happened. In the space between technology and ideology, two terms that have been
fighting each other to define the days that have come since, an album appeared. A collection of songs that seemed defiantly out
of place. Yet somehow these songs knew themselves. Which, thinking back on it now, better explains why their creator, a young
Swedish musician called José González, felt so familiar to us so quickly.” Zane Lowe on José González’ Veneer.
Today visionary singer-songwriter and guitarist José González has announced the release of a 20th Anniversary Deluxe version of his
uncompromising, candid, game-changing debut album (2003) Veneer. It features newly remastered audio of the seminal album as well as a
bonus disc, comprising 13 intimate recordings from his historic 2003 performance at Gothenburg Concert Hall.
The 20th Anniversary Deluxe Version of Veneer will see release on limited edition double blue vinyl and digitally on October 27th, 2023 via
Peacefrog Records. It features a hand-numbered gatefold and a 24-page booklet filled with archival photos, essays, a song-by-song guide
from José and more.
Veneer made an indelible mark in its understated, expressive brilliance and cemented José González as a meticulous sonic craftsman and
songwriter of singular talent. It’s hard to believe an album recorded with the most basic equipment in a cramped Gothenburg flat could end up
going platinum, not only in Sweden but also the UK, selling well over 1 million copies worldwide. It’s harder still when one acknowledges that,
aside from one brief trumpet solo and the slightest hint of percussion, the record features just one hushed voice and the dexterous picking of an
acoustic guitar’s nylon strings. But 2003’s Veneer was such an album, charting in several countries in the world, and eventually making Top 10
in the UK, thanks in part to its delicate, evocative cover of The Knife’s “Heartbeats”.
Praise for Veneer:
Magical... a supreme talent, reminiscent of the late Arthur Russell The Guardian
Veneer draws you in, it’s easy to believe that the young Swede could begin his own cult The Times
Spine-tingling The Sunday Times
Jose Gonzalez really is a rare find The Times (live review)
Gorgeous, in a word Observer Music Monthly
A fresh and intriguing talent The Independent
Affecting soulful poignancy, a quietly impressive debut The Daily Telegraph
Enormous talent The Sunday Telegraph
An intense talent Time Out
In a world of musical clones, the Argentinian Swede is a thrillingly original new talent The Sun
It's an exquisite, almost solemn privilege to be invited into Gonzalez's world Metro
Extraordinary Uncut
The most intimate music you’ll hear all year Q
Dark, still, yet oddly powerful Mojo
Wonderfully accomplished... a serious talent to watch out for, this year
and beyond Clash
Jawdroppingly special, a rare talent Fact
Tracklisting:
DISC 1: Veneer Remastered:
1. Slow Moves
2. Remain
3. Lovestain
4. Heartbeats
5. Crosses
6. Deadweight On Velveteen
7. All You Deliver
8. Stay In The Shade
9. Hints
10. Save Your Day
11. Broken Arrows
DISC 2: Live In Gothenburg 2003
1. Deadweight On Velveteen
2. Save Your Day
3. Storm
4. Crosses
5. Hints
6. Suggestions
7. Heartbeats
8. Love Will Tear Us Apart
9. All You Deliver
10. Stay In The Shade
11. Remain
12. Hand On Your Heart
13. Cello Song
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”Twenty years ago, something magical happened. In the space between technology and ideology, two terms that have been
fighting each other to define the days that have come since, an album appeared. A collection of songs that seemed defiantly out
of place. Yet somehow these songs knew themselves. Which, thinking back on it now, better explains why their creator, a young
Swedish musician called José González, felt so familiar to us so quickly.” Zane Lowe on José González’ Veneer.
Today visionary singer-songwriter and guitarist José González has announced the release of a 20th Anniversary Deluxe version of his
uncompromising, candid, game-changing debut album (2003) Veneer. It features newly remastered audio of the seminal album as well as a
bonus disc, comprising 13 intimate recordings from his historic 2003 performance at Gothenburg Concert Hall.
The 20th Anniversary Deluxe Version of Veneer will see release on limited edition double blue vinyl and digitally on October 27th, 2023 via
Peacefrog Records. It features a hand-numbered gatefold and a 24-page booklet filled with archival photos, essays, a song-by-song guide
from José and more.
Veneer made an indelible mark in its understated, expressive brilliance and cemented José González as a meticulous sonic craftsman and
songwriter of singular talent. It’s hard to believe an album recorded with the most basic equipment in a cramped Gothenburg flat could end up
going platinum, not only in Sweden but also the UK, selling well over 1 million copies worldwide. It’s harder still when one acknowledges that,
aside from one brief trumpet solo and the slightest hint of percussion, the record features just one hushed voice and the dexterous picking of an
acoustic guitar’s nylon strings. But 2003’s Veneer was such an album, charting in several countries in the world, and eventually making Top 10
in the UK, thanks in part to its delicate, evocative cover of The Knife’s “Heartbeats”.
Praise for Veneer:
Magical... a supreme talent, reminiscent of the late Arthur Russell The Guardian
Veneer draws you in, it’s easy to believe that the young Swede could begin his own cult The Times
Spine-tingling The Sunday Times
Jose Gonzalez really is a rare find The Times (live review)
Gorgeous, in a word Observer Music Monthly
A fresh and intriguing talent The Independent
Affecting soulful poignancy, a quietly impressive debut The Daily Telegraph
Enormous talent The Sunday Telegraph
An intense talent Time Out
In a world of musical clones, the Argentinian Swede is a thrillingly original new talent The Sun
It's an exquisite, almost solemn privilege to be invited into Gonzalez's world Metro
Extraordinary Uncut
The most intimate music you’ll hear all year Q
Dark, still, yet oddly powerful Mojo
Wonderfully accomplished... a serious talent to watch out for, this year
and beyond Clash
Jawdroppingly special, a rare talent Fact
Tracklisting:
DISC 1: Veneer Remastered:
1. Slow Moves
2. Remain
3. Lovestain
4. Heartbeats
5. Crosses
6. Deadweight On Velveteen
7. All You Deliver
8. Stay In The Shade
9. Hints
10. Save Your Day
11. Broken Arrows
DISC 2: Live In Gothenburg 2003
1. Deadweight On Velveteen
2. Save Your Day
3. Storm
4. Crosses
5. Hints
6. Suggestions
7. Heartbeats
8. Love Will Tear Us Apart
9. All You Deliver
10. Stay In The Shade
11. Remain
12. Hand On Your Heart
13. Cello Song
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Wolfgang Voigt makes a return to Astral Industries, seeing the continuation of his long-running Rückverzauberung (Reverse Enchantment) series. In line with previous volumes, one may expect the unconventional, idiosyncratic sound Voigt is reputed for. 'Im Tunnel' however, takes a more concentrated viewpoint - a metaphysical transmutation that brings with it an experience of mind-melting drones and swelling intensity.
Entering the tunnel is like opening a portal, but as the fabric of time-space begins to collapse on itself, it feels more like a rude awakening. Pulsing undulations rise and fall like the turbines of a spacecraft, marked by dissonant chords and a simmering cloud of complex and ever-shifting textures. Pushing thresholds and expectations, the unearthly nature of the tunnel over time disintegrates any proposed state of completion.
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LP transparent crystal clear vinyl, leaflet, sticker, download code
GENRE/S:
Alternative, Independent, Shoegaze, Dreampop
TRACKLIST:
A1. A Different Light
A2. Nightfall
A3. Dreamweavers
A4. I Give My Tears
A5. Hollow
B1. Behind My Eyes
B2. Empty Beaches
B3. In A Storm
B4. Winter's Ghost
B5. Closure
SHORT INFO:
In May, fans were treated to the first new music from Trentemøller since 2022. A new single, "A Different Light," showcased a stunning blend of prismatic space rock and folk. For anyone wondering if it foreshadowed the release of a full-length, Dreamweaver will drop in September, on Friday the 13th.
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Dreamweaver is about to enter its next phase. With the hatch blown off of the portal, the noisy "I Give My Tears," driven by its glissed and fuzzy bass line, pours into the void. It's followed by its sibling, the most chaotic track on Dreamweaver, "Behind My Eyes." Arriving as a piece of noise rock pandemonium, "Behind My Eyes," can't be contained in its plush vault. A whip-crack snare and convulsing guitars smash against each other in the song's verse chamber. The tension builds, as the particles collide, pushing past the point of critical mass, kicking off the chain reaction which is the chorus. At times it harkens back to the proto-gaze tracks that gave birth to dream pop, at others it newly defines what that is. There's no time to contemplate it, though, as the song disintegrates in a microphonic feedback instant.
A respite follows with the somnambulistic pair of "Hollow" and "Empty Beaches." Then, a moment of intensity returns as the soaring textures and tribal drum bursts of "In A Storm" take control, before being taken out with the ambient slo-core of "Winter's Ghost" and "Closure." This diptych wraps up an album which certainly feels on-script for Trentemøller, but is also much more psychedelic than previous offerings.
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GENRE/S:
Alternative, Independent, Shoegaze, Dreampop
TRACKLIST:
A1. A Different Light
A2. Nightfall
A3. Dreamweavers
A4. I Give My Tears
A5. Hollow
B1. Behind My Eyes
B2. Empty Beaches
B3. In A Storm
B4. Winter's Ghost
B5. Closure
SHORT INFO:
In May, fans were treated to the first new music from Trentemøller since 2022. A new single, "A Different Light," showcased a stunning blend of prismatic space rock and folk. For anyone wondering if it foreshadowed the release of a full-length, Dreamweaver will drop in September, on Friday the 13th.
Featuring 10 tracks that traverse Trentemøller's many musical strengths, Dreamweaver also represents an obvious artistic leap, treading new ground while retaining the overall plot. Tracks featuring vocals come courtesy of of Iceland's Disa, who has been in Trentemøller's fold since the Memoria tour.
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Alongside Joy Division, The Durutti Column were amongst the first artists to be released by Factory Records. Their debut album, produced by Martin Hannett, showcased the filigree guitar work of Vini Reilly, awash with reverb and early experiments with synthesisers. It would be a first album of a five-decade career, in which The Durutti Column would quietly emerge as one of the most influential acts from the Manchester scene and beyond.
"Essential." The Quietus
"..the most distinctive LP in the Factory canon" Record Collector ?????
"..a perfect meeting of the minds" BBC
".. a quietly stunning debut" All Music ????1/2
To celebrate the album's 45th anniversary, London Records revisits the album with new editions, with audio sourced and remastered from the original tapes, with vinyl cut at ½ speed.
DELUXE DOUBLE CD SET
- 33 tracks
- 45th anniversary edition
- Newly remastered from the original source tapes for the first time since 1980
- 2 Discs including original album, bonus tracks, home and studio demos, and early live tracks. Features two home demos exclusive to this format.
- Housed in a special hardback tall storybook edition (dimensions 147mm (w) x 196mm (h)). 48p page booklet.
- Restored 1985 "cassette edition" artwork with textured "tall book" sleeve
- The exact textured card for the outer sleeve has been accurately sourced.
- 3 essays by The Durutti Column / Factory Records expert James Nice, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and MOJO editor Ian Harrison.
TRACKLISTING:
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CD1
1. Sketch For Summer
2. Requiem for a Father
3. Katherine
4. Conduct
5. Untitled
6. Beginning
7. Jazz
8. Sketch for Winter
9. Collette
10. In 'D'
11. Lips That Would Kiss
12. Madeleine
CD2
1. No Communication
2. Thin Ice
3. Won't Look Out (Gammer and His Familiars ft. Vini Reilly)
4. Intervals (Home Recording -1978)
5. Katharine (Home Recording -1978)
6. Untitled (Home Recording -1978)
7. Conduct (Home Recording -1978)
8. I'm a Face (Studio Demo - 1980)
9. Sketch for Summer (Studio Demo - 1980)
10. Requiem for a Father ((Studio Demo - 1980)
11. Madeleine (Studio Demo - 1980)
12. Katharine (Studio Demo - 1980)
13. Lindsay (Studio Demo - 1980)
14. For Belgian Friends (Studio Demo - 1980)
15. Detail for Annik (Live - Leeds Polytechnic 1980)
16. Sketch for Summer (Live - Leeds Polytechnic 1980)
17. Requiem for a Father (Live - Leeds Polytechnic 1980)
18. Conduct (Live - Brussels 1981)
19. Self Portrait (Live - Brussels 1981)
20. For Belgian Friends (Live - Brussels 1981)
21. Sketch for Summer (Live - Brussels 1981)
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Packaging: 2 x CD, harcover sleeve (like a book) with textured card , dimensions 14,7 cm x 19,6 cm, 48 page booklet , marketing sticker.
OVERVIEW
Alongside Joy Division, The Durutti Column were amongst the first artists to be released by Factory Records. Their debut album, produced by Martin Hannett, showcased the filigree guitar work of Vini Reilly, awash with reverb and early experiments with synthesisers. It would be a first album of a five-decade career, in which The Durutti Column would quietly emerge as one of the most influential acts from the Manchester scene and beyond.
"Essential." The Quietus
"..the most distinctive LP in the Factory canon" Record Collector ?????
"..a perfect meeting of the minds" BBC
".. a quietly stunning debut" All Music ????1/2
To celebrate the album's 45th anniversary, London Records revisits the album with new editions, with audio sourced and remastered from the original tapes, with vinyl cut at ½ speed.
DELUXE DOUBLE CD SET
- 33 tracks
- 45th anniversary edition
- Newly remastered from the original source tapes for the first time since 1980
- 2 Discs including original album, bonus tracks, home and studio demos, and early live tracks. Features two home demos exclusive to this format.
- Housed in a special hardback tall storybook edition (dimensions 147mm (w) x 196mm (h)). 48p page booklet.
- Restored 1985 "cassette edition" artwork with textured "tall book" sleeve
- The exact textured card for the outer sleeve has been accurately sourced.
- 3 essays by The Durutti Column / Factory Records expert James Nice, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and MOJO editor Ian Harrison.
TRACKLISTING:
DOUBLE CD EDITION
CD1
1. Sketch For Summer
2. Requiem for a Father
3. Katherine
4. Conduct
5. Untitled
6. Beginning
7. Jazz
8. Sketch for Winter
9. Collette
10. In 'D'
11. Lips That Would Kiss
12. Madeleine
CD2
1. No Communication
2. Thin Ice
3. Won't Look Out (Gammer and His Familiars ft. Vini Reilly)
4. Intervals (Home Recording -1978)
5. Katharine (Home Recording -1978)
6. Untitled (Home Recording -1978)
7. Conduct (Home Recording -1978)
8. I'm a Face (Studio Demo - 1980)
9. Sketch for Summer (Studio Demo - 1980)
10. Requiem for a Father ((Studio Demo - 1980)
11. Madeleine (Studio Demo - 1980)
12. Katharine (Studio Demo - 1980)
13. Lindsay (Studio Demo - 1980)
14. For Belgian Friends (Studio Demo - 1980)
15. Detail for Annik (Live - Leeds Polytechnic 1980)
16. Sketch for Summer (Live - Leeds Polytechnic 1980)
17. Requiem for a Father (Live - Leeds Polytechnic 1980)
18. Conduct (Live - Brussels 1981)
19. Self Portrait (Live - Brussels 1981)
20. For Belgian Friends (Live - Brussels 1981)
21. Sketch for Summer (Live - Brussels 1981)
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Packaging: 2 x CD, 6 page 4/4 digisleeve with 3 wallets , 12 page booklet, marketing sticker
PRODUCTS INFOS
"The Factory (Best Of) " : all singles & hits released on Factory as 7''/radio edits.
" Remastered + exclusive new artwork.
" First time ever Happy Mondays 's cult remixes as bonus
" 2CD Collector 25 tracks : 14 singles + 11 Remixes
" 2LP editions 17 tracks : 14 singles + the 3 most sought after remixes. Limited Double Yellow & Magenta LP edition also available on Double Black Vinyl that will remain the permanent vinyl edition (with a slightly different frontcover).
SHORT BIOG
2025-2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the Happy Mondays, a milestone celebration of one of Britain's most iconic and era-defining bands.
To celebrate, London Records will launch a series of special anniversary releases, beginning with a fully remastered brand-new compilation: The Factory Singles. This definitive collection captures the band's ground-breaking output from 1985-1992, celebrating their pivotal role in shaping UK music culture. Classic remixes from Paul Oakenfold, Andrew Weatherall, Terry Farley and Jon Carter make up bonus tracks on the 2CD and 2LP.
The release will be available across multiple formats, appealing to collectors and fans alike.
Complementing the physical editions, a series of brand-new digital remixes will be unveiled from world-renowned artists Daniel Avery, Paul Oakenfold, Mella Dee, and Shadow Child and more, bridging the Mondays' legacy with today's electronic innovators, and a revisit from Paul Oakenfold.
This campaign marks the beginning of an extensive celebration of the Happy Mondays' 40-year legacy, bringing their iconic sound to both devoted fans and new generations
Tracklisting:
CD1 TITLE TIMING EDIT
1 Delightful 3:38:00 THE 45 EP
2 Freaky Dancin' 3:42:00
3 Tart Tart 4:18:00
4 24 Hour Party People 3:20:00 Radio Edit
5 Wrote for Luck 3:41:00 7" Edit
6 Lazyitis - One Armed Boxer 3:53:00
7 Hallelujah 3:46:00 Oakenfold 7" Edit
8 Step On 4:20:00 7" Edit
9 Kinky Afro 3:58:00 Radio Edit
10 Loose Fit 3:46:00 Radio Edit
11 Judge Fudge 3:58:00 7" Edit
12 Stinkin' Thinkin' 4:18:00 Hague 7" Edit
13 Sunshine & Love 3:23:00 7" Edit
14 Angel 4:05:00
CD2
1 Tart Tart (The Reflex Revision) 7:16:00 NEW
2 24 Hour Party People (Jon Carter's Main Vocal) 4:29:00
3 W.F.L. (Think About The Future Mix) 7:05:00
4 Hallelujah (Club Mix) 6:29:00
5 Rave On (Club Mix) 5:35:00 Oakenfold / Farley
6 Step On (Twistin' My Melon Mix) 5:55:00
7 Kinky Groovy Afro Remix AKA "Euromix" 7:33:00
8 Loose Fit (Greg Wilson and Ché Wilson Remix) 8:12:00
9 Bob's Yer Uncle (Perfecto Remix) 6:20:00 ROWETTA INTRO
10 Stinkin' Thinkin' (Junior Style) 7:05:00 12" MIX
11 Sunshine & Love (Far Island Mix) 8:24:00
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Packaging: 2 x CD, 6 page 4/4 digisleeve with 3 wallets , 12 page booklet, marketing sticker
PRODUCTS INFOS
"The Factory (Best Of) " : all singles & hits released on Factory as 7''/radio edits.
" Remastered + exclusive new artwork.
" First time ever Happy Mondays 's cult remixes as bonus
" 2CD Collector 25 tracks : 14 singles + 11 Remixes
" 2LP editions 17 tracks : 14 singles + the 3 most sought after remixes. Limited Double Yellow & Magenta LP edition also available on Double Black Vinyl that will remain the permanent vinyl edition (with a slightly different frontcover).
SHORT BIOG
2025-2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the Happy Mondays, a milestone celebration of one of Britain's most iconic and era-defining bands.
To celebrate, London Records will launch a series of special anniversary releases, beginning with a fully remastered brand-new compilation: The Factory Singles. This definitive collection captures the band's ground-breaking output from 1985-1992, celebrating their pivotal role in shaping UK music culture. Classic remixes from Paul Oakenfold, Andrew Weatherall, Terry Farley and Jon Carter make up bonus tracks on the 2CD and 2LP.
The release will be available across multiple formats, appealing to collectors and fans alike.
Complementing the physical editions, a series of brand-new digital remixes will be unveiled from world-renowned artists Daniel Avery, Paul Oakenfold, Mella Dee, and Shadow Child and more, bridging the Mondays' legacy with today's electronic innovators, and a revisit from Paul Oakenfold.
This campaign marks the beginning of an extensive celebration of the Happy Mondays' 40-year legacy, bringing their iconic sound to both devoted fans and new generations
Tracklisting:
CD1 TITLE TIMING EDIT
1 Delightful 3:38:00 THE 45 EP
2 Freaky Dancin' 3:42:00
3 Tart Tart 4:18:00
4 24 Hour Party People 3:20:00 Radio Edit
5 Wrote for Luck 3:41:00 7" Edit
6 Lazyitis - One Armed Boxer 3:53:00
7 Hallelujah 3:46:00 Oakenfold 7" Edit
8 Step On 4:20:00 7" Edit
9 Kinky Afro 3:58:00 Radio Edit
10 Loose Fit 3:46:00 Radio Edit
11 Judge Fudge 3:58:00 7" Edit
12 Stinkin' Thinkin' 4:18:00 Hague 7" Edit
13 Sunshine & Love 3:23:00 7" Edit
14 Angel 4:05:00
CD2
1 Tart Tart (The Reflex Revision) 7:16:00 NEW
2 24 Hour Party People (Jon Carter's Main Vocal) 4:29:00
3 W.F.L. (Think About The Future Mix) 7:05:00
4 Hallelujah (Club Mix) 6:29:00
5 Rave On (Club Mix) 5:35:00 Oakenfold / Farley
6 Step On (Twistin' My Melon Mix) 5:55:00
7 Kinky Groovy Afro Remix AKA "Euromix" 7:33:00
8 Loose Fit (Greg Wilson and Ché Wilson Remix) 8:12:00
9 Bob's Yer Uncle (Perfecto Remix) 6:20:00 ROWETTA INTRO
10 Stinkin' Thinkin' (Junior Style) 7:05:00 12" MIX
11 Sunshine & Love (Far Island Mix) 8:24:00
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Watch the video for the first single 'Sentiments' here - HERE
Malena Zavala is an Argentinian-born, London-based artist, producer, and filmmaker, known for crafting ethereal, genre-blending music that navigates the space between her Latin heritage and her British upbringing. With the forthcoming album If This Life Could Start Again set for release on 30 January 2026 on Paraná Records, Zavala presents her most intimate, cohesive, and accomplished work to date, marking a significant evolution in her artistic journey.
With her new album, Malena creates an atmospheric dream pop world, weaving singer-songwriter intimacy with synth pop, Argentine folk, indiepop, rock and experimental music, threaded together by her blissful vocals and dreamy guitar work. Gorgeously warm and vivid, If This Life Could Start Again charts the journey from pain to acceptance, mapping out the non-linear nature of healing through a sonic landscape. Each song embodies a distinct emotion within that journey, from grief and chaos to feeling lost, seeking refuge, finding confidence, and finally acceptance and letting go. Drawing on her Argentinian roots, Malena uses the Andes mountains as both a visual and thematic anchor - the difficult climb towards higher ground becomes a metaphor for healing, whilst being lost at rock bottom reflects the darkest moments of the journey.
Completely composed and performed by Malena herself, the album was recorded in Girona's L'Empordà countryside in Spain with producer Luke Smith. As a professional producer and audio engineer, this was Malena's first time relinquishing production control - an intimate creative shift that allowed their shared vision to shape the album's rich, enveloping sound.
However, Zavala's career to date has been a testament to self-sufficient artistry. Her critically acclaimed debut, Aliso (2018), was written, recorded, and produced alone in her parents' garage, which honed her dreamy bedroom pop sound. The album, praised by The Guardian for its "gently warped and beguilingly melancholy guitar pop," ****, immediately catapulted her from DIY beginnings to prestigious stages, supporting acts like Lord Huron at London's Roundhouse and Men I Trust at Village Underground and subsequently continuing on their UK/EU tours. Later with standout performances at Latitude, Green Man, and All Points East. Her consistent radio support from key influencers including BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens, and Steve Lamacq has solidified her presence on the airwaves.
Her second album, La Yarará (2020), saw Zavala delve deeper into her roots, exploring Latin traditions like Cumbia and Bolero. This exploration of identity continues powerfully on the new album, but with a newfound lyrical depth and sonic confidence. The new album, If This Life Could Start Again, is a raw and transformative eight-track journey that maps the emotional landscape of healing. Written after a period of personal upheaval, the album traverses themes of grief, hereditary trauma, and self-discovery. The record's narrative is structured like a mountain ascent. A challenging climb through varied emotional terrain, posing the central question: "Will you join the journey?" Sonically, this journey mirrors the non-linear path to acceptance, evolving from acoustic folk and synth-pop to funk-infused rhythms and rock anthems.
As a formidable live performer, Zavala has built a robust touring profile across the UK and Europe. She will embark on an extensive tour in February and March 2026 to support the album, with dates spanning major cities from London and Glasgow to Berlin, Paris, and Barcelona.
With If This Life Could Start Again, Malena Zavala fully realizes her artistic vision as a self-taught producer to an autonomous artist commanding her career through Paraná Records whilst reflecting the vast landscapes of her heritage and affirming her place as a compelling and evolving voice in contemporary music.
Malena Zavala - UK/EU tour 2026
30 Jan 2026 - Mexico City, MX - Rebel Rebel
24 Feb 2026 - Brighton, UK - The Folklore Rooms
25 Feb 2026 - London, UK - The Grace
26 Feb 2026 - Sheffield, UK - Hallamshire Hotel
27 Feb 2026 - Glasgow, UK - Hug & Pint
28 Feb 2026 - Manchester, UK - The Castle Hotel
03 Mar 2026 - Paris, FR - Supersonic Records
04 Mar 2026 - Antwerp, BE - De Roma
06 Mar 2026 - Cologne, DE - Artheatre
07 Mar 2026 - Copenhagen, DK - Ideal Bar
10 Mar 2026 - Berlin, DE - Prachtwerk
11 Mar 2026 - Prague, CZ - Café Ve Lese
13 Mar 2026 - Vienna, AT - Rhiz
14 Mar 2026 - Nyon, CH - La Parenthèse
15 Mar 2026 - Milan, IT - Arci Bellezza
17 Mar 2026 - Barcelona, SP - Sala Vol
18 Mar 2026 - Madrid, SP - Café La Palma
20 Mar 2026 - Portalegre, PT - Centro De Artes E Espectáculo
21 Mar 2026 - Setúbal, PT - Casa Cultura
Tracklist: 1) Only Thing That's Right 2) Lost In The Depths Of The Andes 3) What You Need 4) Veins Of The Parana 5) All These 6) Sentiments 7) Don't Know What You're Saying 8) Save Me From Me 9) A Different Path
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LP, COL (Transparent Vinyl), 180G
Tracklist:
A1) Hungun 03:39 min
A2) Ulbar 04:01 min
A3) Ergelt 02:48 min
A4) Unadag Dugui 02:19 min
A5) Gerhol 04:03 min
A6) Eejiinhee Hairaar 03:30 min
B1) Zuirmegleh 03:25 min
B2) Much 03:02 min
B3) Neke 02:00 min
B4) Old Folks 08:39 min
B5) Bayar Tai 02:28 min
Info:
For a few fleeting moments during a sunset, the sky is cast a vivid shade of amber. A dramatic flare of colour, a moment belonging to both the day and the night. It is within this vibrant, ephemeral world, that Mongolian-born, Munich-based Enji has written her new album Sonor.
Sonor is a reflection of Enji's personal evolution and the complex emotions that accompany living between two worlds. The album's themes revolve around the unplaceable feeling of being between cultures, not as a source of conflict, but as a space for growth and self-discovery. Enji explores how distance from her traditional Mongolian roots has shaped her identity, and how returning home brings a heightened awareness of these changes. Backed by a band of renowned jazz musicians (Elias Stemeseder on piano, Robert Landfermann on bass, Julian Sartorius on drums and co-composer Paul Brändle on guitar), Enji isn't just revisiting tradition, she's distilling the feeling of home, of small joys that reveal their significance only when viewed from afar.
Like a familiar song hummed by a parent, her music captures the essence of belonging, not tied to a single place, but to the emotions and memories that shape us.
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Tracklist:
A1) Hungun 03:39 min
A2) Ulbar 04:01 min
A3) Ergelt 02:48 min
A4) Unadag Dugui 02:19 min
A5) Gerhol 04:03 min
A6) Eejiinhee Hairaar 03:30 min
B1) Zuirmegleh 03:25 min
B2) Much 03:02 min
B3) Neke 02:00 min
B4) Old Folks 08:39 min
B5) Bayar Tai 02:28 min
Info:
For a few fleeting moments during a sunset, the sky is cast a vivid shade of amber. A dramatic flare of colour, a moment belonging to both the day and the night. It is within this vibrant, ephemeral world, that Mongolian-born, Munich-based Enji has written her new album Sonor.
Sonor is a reflection of Enji's personal evolution and the complex emotions that accompany living between two worlds. The album's themes revolve around the unplaceable feeling of being between cultures, not as a source of conflict, but as a space for growth and self-discovery. Enji explores how distance from her traditional Mongolian roots has shaped her identity, and how returning home brings a heightened awareness of these changes. Backed by a band of renowned jazz musicians (Elias Stemeseder on piano, Robert Landfermann on bass, Julian Sartorius on drums and co-composer Paul Brändle on guitar), Enji isn't just revisiting tradition, she's distilling the feeling of home, of small joys that reveal their significance only when viewed from afar.
Like a familiar song hummed by a parent, her music captures the essence of belonging, not tied to a single place, but to the emotions and memories that shape us.
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Label:DENSE TRUTH
Cat-No:TJRUTH010LP
Release-Date:06.02.2026
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:LP Excl
Label:DENSE TRUTH
Cat-No:TJRUTH010LP
Release-Date:06.02.2026
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:LP Excl
**Ltd edition double ‘night smoke’ gatefold vinyl **
Vinyl edition of 500
‘Night smoke’ marble double vinyl, in gatefold packaging newly designed by Forest Swords
Shrinkwrapped with hype sticker
Remastered by Rashad Becker in Berlin
With two previously unheard tracks from the original sessions - one exclusive to this pressing
Re-released for the very first time via the artist’s own label Dense Truth
"A visionary voice in modern Britain's experimental music scene"
– The New York Times
Instantly singular - 8.5 Best New Music” - Pitchfork
“Breathtaking” - Resident Advisor
“Has the kind of beauty that sees you playing it, and only it, for the next three weeks” - Observer
"A set of remarkable electronic rituals” - NME
Forest Swords' debut album 'Engravings' is back in print on vinyl and CD for the first time in years, newly remastered by Rashad Becker with previously unheard bonus tracks exclusive to this edition.
Created by electronic producer and composer Matthew Barnes, and originally released via Tri Angle Records, 'Engravings' received instant acclaim from the likes of Resident Advisor, Pitchfork, The Guardian and saw Barnes take his hypnotic live show across festivals like Sonar, Glastonbury, Unsound and Le Guess Who.
While much of British electronica is defined by its inner cities, 'Engravings' was recorded in Barnes' hometown on the banks of an ancient river in Merseyside, the album's earthy, organic soundscape reflected the landscape and climate: all silt and sandstone, woodlands and wind, with the ghosts of Liverpool's pop music and clubbing history echoing in the near distance.
The album was a prototype for a sonic vocabulary Barnes has expanded on over the next few years: in critically acclaimed studio albums ('Compassion' and 'Bolted' via Ninja Tune), collaborations with Massive Attack and Neneh Cherry, remixes for the likes of Bjork, as well as commissions for video games, ballet and film scores - of which he has carved a career as an in-demand composer and sound designer.
'Engravings' is a snapshot of an artist confidently defining their own language: a piece of work that distills influences like dub, ambient, rave, post-rock and psychedelia into an ancient-futurist musical vision that feels timeless and vital.
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Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - A1. Uoon I
2
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - A2. Uoon II
3
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - B1. Duoon
4
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - B2. Noon
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Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - C1. Trioon I
6
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - C2.Trioon II
7
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - D1. Landscape Skizze
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CD - RE MASTER - Part of the V.I.R.U.S series
2. GENRE/S: Ambient/ Electronic
3. Info
Pioneers in their own musical approaches, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, began their exploration of sound in the evocatively titled V.I.R.U.S series in 2002. After more than a decade from the release of the collection's final installment with "Summvs" in 2011, NOTON reissues all the five albums between June and October 2022.
With its impressionistic atmosphere, in this collaborative project two generations met and shared the idea of electronic music as an inspiration source for new musical structures. Over a series of five albums, Vrioon (2002),Insen (2005), Revep (2006), utp_ (2008), and summvs (2011), the duo have explored blending electronic and acoustic sounds into a meditative whole that is at once expressive, breathing and precision-engineered.
Remastered in collaboration with Calyx Mastering, the recordings of Vrioon, Insen, Revep, Utp_, and Summvs are made available on vinyl and CD under the title 'reMASTER, accompanied by exclusive, unreleased compositions and housed in a beautifully designed sleeve with original cover art by Carsten Nicolai.
In November 2022, a dedicated, limited edition cardboard slipcase will be available as a separate item from the V.I.R.U.S. LPs/CDs.
4. TRACKLISTS:
CD Tracklisting:
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Uoon I
Playtime: 00:13:50
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Uoon II
Playtime: 00:09:40
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 3
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Duoon
Playtime: 00:05:47
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 4
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Noon
Playtime: 00:10:12
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 5
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Trioon I
Playtime: 00:05:08
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 6
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Trioon II
Playtime: 00:09:57
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 7
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Landscape Skizze
Playtime: 00:08:12
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Ò LP Tracklisting:
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Uoon I
Playtime: 00:13:50
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Uoon II
Playtime: 00:09:40
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Duoon
Playtime: 00:05:47
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Noon
Playtime: 00:10:12
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: C // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Trioon I
Playtime: 00:05:08
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Medium: 2 // Side: C // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Trioon II
Playtime: 00:09:57
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: D // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Landscape Skizze
Playtime: 00:08:12
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
All tracks: Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
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CD - RE MASTER - Part of the V.I.R.U.S series
2. GENRE/S: Ambient/ Electronic
3. Info
Pioneers in their own musical approaches, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, began their exploration of sound in the evocatively titled V.I.R.U.S series in 2002. After more than a decade from the release of the collection's final installment with "Summvs" in 2011, NOTON reissues all the five albums between June and October 2022.
With its impressionistic atmosphere, in this collaborative project two generations met and shared the idea of electronic music as an inspiration source for new musical structures. Over a series of five albums, Vrioon (2002),Insen (2005), Revep (2006), utp_ (2008), and summvs (2011), the duo have explored blending electronic and acoustic sounds into a meditative whole that is at once expressive, breathing and precision-engineered.
Remastered in collaboration with Calyx Mastering, the recordings of Vrioon, Insen, Revep, Utp_, and Summvs are made available on vinyl and CD under the title 'reMASTER, accompanied by exclusive, unreleased compositions and housed in a beautifully designed sleeve with original cover art by Carsten Nicolai.
In November 2022, a dedicated, limited edition cardboard slipcase will be available as a separate item from the V.I.R.U.S. LPs/CDs.
4. TRACKLISTS:
CD Tracklisting:
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Uoon I
Playtime: 00:13:50
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Uoon II
Playtime: 00:09:40
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 3
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Duoon
Playtime: 00:05:47
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 4
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Noon
Playtime: 00:10:12
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 5
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Trioon I
Playtime: 00:05:08
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 6
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Trioon II
Playtime: 00:09:57
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Medium: 1 // Side: // Track: 7
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Landscape Skizze
Playtime: 00:08:12
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Ò LP Tracklisting:
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Uoon I
Playtime: 00:13:50
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Uoon II
Playtime: 00:09:40
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Duoon
Playtime: 00:05:47
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Noon
Playtime: 00:10:12
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: C // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Trioon I
Playtime: 00:05:08
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: C // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Trioon II
Playtime: 00:09:57
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: D // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Landscape Skizze
Playtime: 00:08:12
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
All tracks: Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
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1
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Attack/Transition
2
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Grains
3
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Particle 1
4
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Transition
5
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Broken Line 1
6
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Plateaux 1
7
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Silence
8
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Particle 2
9
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Broken Line 2
10
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Plateaux 2/End
Release Info:
Released for the first time in 2009, ‘utp_’ is the third installment of Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s V.I.R.U.S.'s series. It was commissioned for the 400th anniversary of Mannheim, Germany. The flowing 10-section multimedia work derives its shape from a rasterized structure of the southwestern city, founded in 1608. The recording documents the work’s debut performed by Ensemble Modern at the National Theatre in Mannheim. The music embraces the electronic, piano-based palettes, an expanded array of avant-garde chamber instrumentation and natural timbres. It combined the digital visual score created by Carsten Nicolai and Simon Mayer, and lighting design by Nigel Edwards.
Album art designed by Carsten Nicolai
Mastering by Bo @ Calyx
Tracklisting
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Attack/Transition
Playtime: 00:07:24
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719505
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Particle 1
Playtime: 00:06:40
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719507
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
---------------------------------------------------------
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Grains
Playtime: 00:06:24
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719506
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Transition
Playtime: 00:03:31
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719508
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 3
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Broken Line 1
Playtime: 00:06:32
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719509
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: C // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Plateaux 1
Playtime: 00:08:07
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719510
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: D // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Broken Line 2
Playtime: 00:06:25
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719513
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: C // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Silence
Playtime: 00:06:50
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719511
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: D // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Plateaux 2/End
Playtime: 00:13:10
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719514
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: C // Track: 3
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Particle 2
Playtime: 00:07:00
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719512
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Released for the first time in 2009, ‘utp_’ is the third installment of Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s V.I.R.U.S.'s series. It was commissioned for the 400th anniversary of Mannheim, Germany. The flowing 10-section multimedia work derives its shape from a rasterized structure of the southwestern city, founded in 1608. The recording documents the work’s debut performed by Ensemble Modern at the National Theatre in Mannheim. The music embraces the electronic, piano-based palettes, an expanded array of avant-garde chamber instrumentation and natural timbres. It combined the digital visual score created by Carsten Nicolai and Simon Mayer, and lighting design by Nigel Edwards.
Album art designed by Carsten Nicolai
Mastering by Bo @ Calyx
Tracklisting
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Attack/Transition
Playtime: 00:07:24
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719505
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Particle 1
Playtime: 00:06:40
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719507
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
---------------------------------------------------------
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Grains
Playtime: 00:06:24
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719506
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Transition
Playtime: 00:03:31
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719508
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 3
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Broken Line 1
Playtime: 00:06:32
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719509
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: C // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Plateaux 1
Playtime: 00:08:07
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719510
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: D // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Broken Line 2
Playtime: 00:06:25
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719513
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: C // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Silence
Playtime: 00:06:50
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719511
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: D // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Plateaux 2/End
Playtime: 00:13:10
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719514
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 2 // Side: C // Track: 3
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Particle 2
Playtime: 00:07:00
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719512
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
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Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Label:InFiné
Cat-No:IF1104CD
Release-Date:20.02.2026
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:CD Excl
Label:InFiné
Cat-No:IF1104CD
Release-Date:20.02.2026
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:CD Excl
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Genre
• Electronic
Format
• CD
Tracklist
01_Aiwa - 04:56
02_Hypercube - 04:52
03_Yucon - 02:49
04_Bialystok - 04:29
05_The Ice House - 01:24
06_Sunlight On Saturn - 03:13
07_You’ll Find a Way - 03:18
08_Baltasound Feat. Dextro - 04:37
09_Orbiting Meadows Feat. Clark - 02:05
10_Slow Yamaha - 09:00
11_Black Drift (Outro) - 01:11
As Nathan Fake rises from the nocturnal subterranea and rave catharsis of his previous records, on Evaporator, he resurfaces into the domain of daylight, bringing a tangible sense of air rushing against your face, of big skies, and endless landscapes.
The idea of pop accessibility that trickled into 2023’s Crystal Vision is refracted here through the prism of sweeping ambient, deep electronica, and trance uplift. Evaporator is Fake’s idea of “airy daytime music”, with each track a different barometer reading across the album’s varying atmospheres, which range from vibrant sunbursts, bracing rainscapes, and fine mists of clement melodics. “It’s not overtly confrontational electronic club music,” states Fake. “It’s quite pleasant, it’s accessible. As I was progressing through making the tracklist, I called it a daytime album. It doesn’t feel like an afterparty album.” For the past decade Fake has been gingerly introducing collaborations with heroes and friends alike into his lone, idiosyncratic working process.
Border Community alumni Dextro AKA Ewan Mackenzie transmutes his ferocious drumming for Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs into the blurred choral thump of ‘Baltasound’. ‘Orbiting Meadows’, meanwhile, is his second collaboration with Clark, an eerily idyllic duet where microtonal 18EDO piano clangs slowly twirl around wailing pads. Evaporator marks the junction point of old technology and ever fresh creativity for Nathan. The trusty “dinosaur” age software, particularly Cubase VST5, that has powered two decades of music is rarely updated. “I used to sort of feel a bit ashamed of using such old software, and then I kind of had an epiphany – that’s just how I work”, comments Fake. “That’s just how I play. I’m very fond of these old tools, and I get the most joy out of them, but now I’ve incorporated new technology too.” When an artist accumulates so much synergy with their instrument, music making becomes instinctual. By Fake’s account, much of Evaporator just fell into place. The album title arrived randomly in his head (“it felt completely perfect. Airy.”), ideas looped and developed until things locked into place and just felt right. ‘The Ice House’ is a fleeting glimpse of the sonic world he taps into in this creative state, its glassy FM synths built around a counterpoint between rough-hewn crystalline arpeggios and sparse yet gravitas-bearing bass. “That riff I just wrote out on the keyboard, I just played it forever and ever and ever.
The original track ended up being really short. Here you go, and it’s gone!” These unplanned channellings of sound call forth records from Fake’s past while he looks ahead, perhaps getting at the very essence of his musicianship. The opener ‘Aiwa’ (“the breeziest,” he muses) reminds of the introspection that characterised Providence, excited by the fire and grit of Steam Days’ textural experiments, its chunky slams and clatters surging into a flood of harmonic buzzing as they reach out for old wisdom. ‘Hypercube’ stampedes in a similar chronological confluence, infusing an incessant synth line reminiscent of the golden age of rave with the crackling, ecstatic energy of modern festival anthems. Like the vaporisation of liquid to particles, everything that Evaporator presents has a mutant desire to be amorphous. Sounds rarely settle; the irradiated garage beat of ‘Bialystok’ is pitched downwards to driving, rebounding effect, while ‘You’ll Find a Way’ warps static into shivering energy, cinematic synth strings building anticipation into a gradual gush of chords. This translates into a more expansive stereo field than Fake has explored before.
‘Slow Yamaha’ saves the wildest, most kinetic transformations for last with a cornucopia of crispy melodies and fried drums; a sibilance of cymbals on the left, a susurrus of shakers on the right, and kaleidoscopic lasers pulsing and fizzing all around. Evaporation culminating in pure excited atoms. In a world where music has increasingly become background content, making albums remains lifeblood for Fake: “It makes me realise how long; twenty years is ages! It’s weird to see how much the world has changed. Release day back then you did fuck all, now you spend all day on socials. When I grew up the people who made the electronic music I was into were quite mysterious, and the artwork was very abstract.
There was a massive distance between you and that music, and that was a key part of it, really. Now it helps to be an extrovert, and I'm just not, but the album marks the first time my face has graced the cover art. I’ve never wanted to do this before, I'm very shy, and generally I don’t like being seen,” he professes. “But, twenty years in, I supposed I could try something new. I'm very lucky that I'm somehow surviving in this world, where the media world favours extroverts and interesting looking people. It’s not my world but somehow I’m still in it.” Evaporator continues to prove Nathan’s necessary presence, with some of his most engaging, varied, and magical music yet.
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Genre
• Electronic
Format
• CD
Tracklist
01_Aiwa - 04:56
02_Hypercube - 04:52
03_Yucon - 02:49
04_Bialystok - 04:29
05_The Ice House - 01:24
06_Sunlight On Saturn - 03:13
07_You’ll Find a Way - 03:18
08_Baltasound Feat. Dextro - 04:37
09_Orbiting Meadows Feat. Clark - 02:05
10_Slow Yamaha - 09:00
11_Black Drift (Outro) - 01:11
As Nathan Fake rises from the nocturnal subterranea and rave catharsis of his previous records, on Evaporator, he resurfaces into the domain of daylight, bringing a tangible sense of air rushing against your face, of big skies, and endless landscapes.
The idea of pop accessibility that trickled into 2023’s Crystal Vision is refracted here through the prism of sweeping ambient, deep electronica, and trance uplift. Evaporator is Fake’s idea of “airy daytime music”, with each track a different barometer reading across the album’s varying atmospheres, which range from vibrant sunbursts, bracing rainscapes, and fine mists of clement melodics. “It’s not overtly confrontational electronic club music,” states Fake. “It’s quite pleasant, it’s accessible. As I was progressing through making the tracklist, I called it a daytime album. It doesn’t feel like an afterparty album.” For the past decade Fake has been gingerly introducing collaborations with heroes and friends alike into his lone, idiosyncratic working process.
Border Community alumni Dextro AKA Ewan Mackenzie transmutes his ferocious drumming for Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs into the blurred choral thump of ‘Baltasound’. ‘Orbiting Meadows’, meanwhile, is his second collaboration with Clark, an eerily idyllic duet where microtonal 18EDO piano clangs slowly twirl around wailing pads. Evaporator marks the junction point of old technology and ever fresh creativity for Nathan. The trusty “dinosaur” age software, particularly Cubase VST5, that has powered two decades of music is rarely updated. “I used to sort of feel a bit ashamed of using such old software, and then I kind of had an epiphany – that’s just how I work”, comments Fake. “That’s just how I play. I’m very fond of these old tools, and I get the most joy out of them, but now I’ve incorporated new technology too.” When an artist accumulates so much synergy with their instrument, music making becomes instinctual. By Fake’s account, much of Evaporator just fell into place. The album title arrived randomly in his head (“it felt completely perfect. Airy.”), ideas looped and developed until things locked into place and just felt right. ‘The Ice House’ is a fleeting glimpse of the sonic world he taps into in this creative state, its glassy FM synths built around a counterpoint between rough-hewn crystalline arpeggios and sparse yet gravitas-bearing bass. “That riff I just wrote out on the keyboard, I just played it forever and ever and ever.
The original track ended up being really short. Here you go, and it’s gone!” These unplanned channellings of sound call forth records from Fake’s past while he looks ahead, perhaps getting at the very essence of his musicianship. The opener ‘Aiwa’ (“the breeziest,” he muses) reminds of the introspection that characterised Providence, excited by the fire and grit of Steam Days’ textural experiments, its chunky slams and clatters surging into a flood of harmonic buzzing as they reach out for old wisdom. ‘Hypercube’ stampedes in a similar chronological confluence, infusing an incessant synth line reminiscent of the golden age of rave with the crackling, ecstatic energy of modern festival anthems. Like the vaporisation of liquid to particles, everything that Evaporator presents has a mutant desire to be amorphous. Sounds rarely settle; the irradiated garage beat of ‘Bialystok’ is pitched downwards to driving, rebounding effect, while ‘You’ll Find a Way’ warps static into shivering energy, cinematic synth strings building anticipation into a gradual gush of chords. This translates into a more expansive stereo field than Fake has explored before.
‘Slow Yamaha’ saves the wildest, most kinetic transformations for last with a cornucopia of crispy melodies and fried drums; a sibilance of cymbals on the left, a susurrus of shakers on the right, and kaleidoscopic lasers pulsing and fizzing all around. Evaporation culminating in pure excited atoms. In a world where music has increasingly become background content, making albums remains lifeblood for Fake: “It makes me realise how long; twenty years is ages! It’s weird to see how much the world has changed. Release day back then you did fuck all, now you spend all day on socials. When I grew up the people who made the electronic music I was into were quite mysterious, and the artwork was very abstract.
There was a massive distance between you and that music, and that was a key part of it, really. Now it helps to be an extrovert, and I'm just not, but the album marks the first time my face has graced the cover art. I’ve never wanted to do this before, I'm very shy, and generally I don’t like being seen,” he professes. “But, twenty years in, I supposed I could try something new. I'm very lucky that I'm somehow surviving in this world, where the media world favours extroverts and interesting looking people. It’s not my world but somehow I’m still in it.” Evaporator continues to prove Nathan’s necessary presence, with some of his most engaging, varied, and magical music yet.
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
1
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Siisx
2
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Mur
3
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - ax Mr. L
4
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - City Radieuse
5
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Veru 1
6
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Veru 2
LP - RE MASTER - Part of the V.I.R.U.S series
GENRE/S: Ambient/ Electronic
Info
Initially released in 2006, ‘Revep’ is the third collaboration album between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto and the third installment of V.I.R.U.S.’s five albums series.
Remastered in 2021 in collaboration with Calyx Studio, the album’s recordings are accompanied by three new compositions titled ‘City Radieuse’, ‘Veru 1’, and ‘Veru 2’.
‘City Radieuse’ was composed for the 2012 short cinematic essay titled ‘Cité Radieuse’ and part of Carsten Nicolai’s ‘future past perfect’ series.
The video shot at le Corbusier’s Unité D’Habitation in Nantes (called ‘cité radieuse’) takes the viewer through the modular system and design applied to the residential buildings. The film’s narrative unfolds
through a sequence of images tracking the apartments’ indoor space and details, and points to the different benchmarks of standardized production as they correlate to their environment and its inhabitants.
The album’s original recordings resulted from musical exchanges that began with ‘Vrioon’ and revolved around a collaborative arrangement of Sakamoto’s classic ‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence,’ the theme music
to the 1983 movie starring David Bowie, Takeshi Kitano, and Ryuichi Sakamoto himself.
In ‘Revep,’ the piano takes the lead while the padded bass and pitched electronic frequencies mark sudden change. Deeply evocative and effortlessly colliding worlds of analog beauty and digital mastery,
this album is considered another indispensable record from the duo’s ongoing collaboration.
ALBUM ART DESIGNED BY CARSTEN NICOLAI
MASTERING BY BO @ CALYX
TRACKLIST:
LP Tracklisting:
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Siisx
Playtime: 00:07:24
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719499
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: City Radieuse
Playtime: 00:07:48
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719502
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Mur
Playtime: 00:08:14
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719500
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Veru 1
Playtime: 00:08:01
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719503
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 3
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: ax Mr. L
Playtime: 00:04:18
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719501
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 3
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Veru 2
Playtime: 00:05:15
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719504
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
GENRE/S: Ambient/ Electronic
Info
Initially released in 2006, ‘Revep’ is the third collaboration album between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto and the third installment of V.I.R.U.S.’s five albums series.
Remastered in 2021 in collaboration with Calyx Studio, the album’s recordings are accompanied by three new compositions titled ‘City Radieuse’, ‘Veru 1’, and ‘Veru 2’.
‘City Radieuse’ was composed for the 2012 short cinematic essay titled ‘Cité Radieuse’ and part of Carsten Nicolai’s ‘future past perfect’ series.
The video shot at le Corbusier’s Unité D’Habitation in Nantes (called ‘cité radieuse’) takes the viewer through the modular system and design applied to the residential buildings. The film’s narrative unfolds
through a sequence of images tracking the apartments’ indoor space and details, and points to the different benchmarks of standardized production as they correlate to their environment and its inhabitants.
The album’s original recordings resulted from musical exchanges that began with ‘Vrioon’ and revolved around a collaborative arrangement of Sakamoto’s classic ‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence,’ the theme music
to the 1983 movie starring David Bowie, Takeshi Kitano, and Ryuichi Sakamoto himself.
In ‘Revep,’ the piano takes the lead while the padded bass and pitched electronic frequencies mark sudden change. Deeply evocative and effortlessly colliding worlds of analog beauty and digital mastery,
this album is considered another indispensable record from the duo’s ongoing collaboration.
ALBUM ART DESIGNED BY CARSTEN NICOLAI
MASTERING BY BO @ CALYX
TRACKLIST:
LP Tracklisting:
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Siisx
Playtime: 00:07:24
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719499
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 1
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: City Radieuse
Playtime: 00:07:48
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719502
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Mur
Playtime: 00:08:14
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719500
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 2
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Veru 1
Playtime: 00:08:01
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719503
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: A // Track: 3
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: ax Mr. L
Playtime: 00:04:18
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719501
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: 1 // Side: B // Track: 3
Artist: Alva Noto; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Veru 2
Playtime: 00:05:15
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: UK6821719504
(P): 2022 NOTON
Country: Germany
Composer: Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
---------------------------------------------------------
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
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