Barcode (UPC code A): 827170553965 Rel date 30.6.2014
tracklist:
A1 Eye Contact (Kai Alcé remix - Kai 'KZR' Alcé's Dub)A2 Passwords (Hercules & Love Affair vs Ha-Ze Factory remix) B Decoy Point (Juju & Jordash remix)
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Real Sool brings together a trio of heavyweight practitioners in the fine art of House Music to remix tracks from ULTRAMARINE's critically acclaimed album of late 2013, THIS TIME LAST YEAR. Atlanta's KAI ALCE and Amsterdam's JUJU & JORDASH are Real Soon veterans with five releases between them on the label. We're also delighted to welcome on board long-term Ultramarine admirer ANDY BUTLER of HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR who teams up here with Viennese producers HA-ZE FACTORY. The Kai Alcé and Hercules & Love Affair mixes share a similar approach; raw, jacking and dancefloor friendly. Kai gives EYE CONTACT a Chicago-flavoured jazz twist with a bassline reminiscent of Glenn Underground and fleeting high-register piano. On PASSWORDS, Hercules & Ha-Ze layer rhythm and vocal samples from the original track and punch a hole in them with brutal sawtooth basses and bouncing syndrums. On the flip, Juju & Jordash reduce the downtempo DECOY POINT to a warm, pulsing mantra. Throbbing organ and accordion drones, synth pads washing up in waves, a heartbeat kick-drum, ambient sounds from the room next door; all heard as though waking from a heavy, troubled sleep.


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UPC CD 827170131620 Rel date 7.10.2013
CD in 6-panel digipak printed in three Pantone colours.
A1 / 1 Technique A2 / 2 Find My Way A3 / 3 Dugout A4 / 4 Eye Contact A5 / 5 Decoy Point
B1 / 6 Within Reach B2 / 7 Passwords B3 / 8 Sidetracked B4 / 9 Even Then B5 / 10 Imaginary Letters
Featuring all-new material and recorded in the band's isolated studio on the edge of the Essex marshes, the album ebbs and flows in mood like the nearby Blackwater estuary. Working with a palette of vintage drum machines, analogue synths, textural samples, acoustic recordings, electric bass & heavily treated guitar, the songs were born out of captured live studio performances. Cooper & Hammond then rewired their initial sketches through a series of hands-on, lo-fi effects chains, blurring the edges between acoustic & electronic elements. The result is an organic, playful feel; leaving the music room to breathe and carrying distinct echoes of the band's previous work.
BIOGRAPHY
Ultramarine are the London/Essex-based duo of Ian Cooper & Paul Hammond. Formed in 1989, the band's early records were released by the seminal Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscule. Ultramarine released five albums during the 1990s including the highly-acclaimed ambient techno/house classic Every Man And Woman Is A Star (Rough Trade, 1992); United Kingdoms (Blanco Y Negro, 1993), featuring writing collaborations with Robert Wyatt; and Bel Air (Blanco Y Negro, 1995). After a prolific decade, including full American and European tours with Björk and Orbital, Ultramarine went on a long sabbatical following the release of their fifth album A User's Guide (New Electronica, 1998). After a 13-year absence they resurfaced with two new singles in late 2011 on Real Soon and WNCL Recordings, fully rested and ready for action.
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UPC LP 827170506367 Rel date 30.09.2013
LP pressed on 180gm vinyl; sleeve printed in three Pantone colours; includes free MP3 download.
A1 / 1 Technique A2 / 2 Find My Way A3 / 3 Dugout A4 / 4 Eye Contact A5 / 5 Decoy Point
B1 / 6 Within Reach B2 / 7 Passwords B3 / 8 Sidetracked B4 / 9 Even Then B5 / 10 Imaginary Letters
Featuring all-new material and recorded in the band's isolated studio on the edge of the Essex marshes, the album ebbs and flows in mood like the nearby Blackwater estuary. Working with a palette of vintage drum machines, analogue synths, textural samples, acoustic recordings, electric bass & heavily treated guitar, the songs were born out of captured live studio performances. Cooper & Hammond then rewired their initial sketches through a series of hands-on, lo-fi effects chains, blurring the edges between acoustic & electronic elements. The result is an organic, playful feel; leaving the music room to breathe and carrying distinct echoes of the band's previous work.
BIOGRAPHY
Ultramarine are the London/Essex-based duo of Ian Cooper & Paul Hammond. Formed in 1989, the band's early records were released by the seminal Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscule. Ultramarine released five albums during the 1990s including the highly-acclaimed ambient techno/house classic Every Man And Woman Is A Star (Rough Trade, 1992); United Kingdoms (Blanco Y Negro, 1993), featuring writing collaborations with Robert Wyatt; and Bel Air (Blanco Y Negro, 1995). After a prolific decade, including full American and European tours with Björk and Orbital, Ultramarine went on a long sabbatical following the release of their fifth album A User's Guide (New Electronica, 1998). After a 13-year absence they resurfaced with two new singles in late 2011 on Real Soon and WNCL Recordings, fully rested and ready for action.
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Ultramarine & Anna Domino meet again for a reworking of their collaborative track '$10 Heel'.

The song originally appeared on the Ultramarine album Signals Into Space (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2019). $10 Rework replaces the urgent, jittery rhythm of the original with a straighter House backbone and then proceeds to disassemble the structure with a pair of freestyle, hands-on-the-desk, on-the-fly dub mixes.

Anna Domino's stream-of-consciousness lyrics tell the impressionistic tale of post-club after-hours chaos in Times Square, NYC circa 1979. Anna raps off studio equipment brand names like passing neon signs glimpsed in a blur through a taxi cab window.

Iain Ballamy wields his saxophone like a graffiti artist with a spray can; scrawling and skronking across the canvas. Ric Elsworth lurks in a side alley, unraveling a trash can monologue of wild flamming bongos.

Ultramarine is the UK duo of Ian Cooper & Paul Hammond. Formed in 1989, their albums include Every Man and Woman is a Star (Rough Trade, 1991), United Kingdoms (w/ Robert Wyatt) (Blanco Y Negro, 1993) and Signals Into Space (w/ Anna Domino) (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2019).

Anna Domino is an American musician based in LA and NY, best known for her classic run of releases on Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscule in the 1980s and '90s.

Iain Ballamy is a composer and saxophonist; a member of the Loose Tubes collective in the 1980s and more recently with several albums to his name on ECM.

Ric Elsworth is UK-based percussionist and vibraphone player.

Tracklist:

A - $10 Heel (Rework)
B1 - $10 Dub
B2 - $10 Dub (Instrumental)

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Barcode (UPC code A): 827170553965 Rel date 30.6.2014
tracklist:
A1 Eye Contact (Kai Alcé remix - Kai 'KZR' Alcé's Dub)A2 Passwords (Hercules & Love Affair vs Ha-Ze Factory remix) B Decoy Point (Juju & Jordash remix)
Infotext
Real Sool brings together a trio of heavyweight practitioners in the fine art of House Music to remix tracks from ULTRAMARINE's critically acclaimed album of late 2013, THIS TIME LAST YEAR. Atlanta's KAI ALCE and Amsterdam's JUJU & JORDASH are Real Soon veterans with five releases between them on the label. We're also delighted to welcome on board long-term Ultramarine admirer ANDY BUTLER of HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR who teams up here with Viennese producers HA-ZE FACTORY. The Kai Alcé and Hercules & Love Affair mixes share a similar approach; raw, jacking and dancefloor friendly. Kai gives EYE CONTACT a Chicago-flavoured jazz twist with a bassline reminiscent of Glenn Underground and fleeting high-register piano. On PASSWORDS, Hercules & Ha-Ze layer rhythm and vocal samples from the original track and punch a hole in them with brutal sawtooth basses and bouncing syndrums. On the flip, Juju & Jordash reduce the downtempo DECOY POINT to a warm, pulsing mantra. Throbbing organ and accordion drones, synth pads washing up in waves, a heartbeat kick-drum, ambient sounds from the room next door; all heard as though waking from a heavy, troubled sleep.


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UPC LP 827170506367 Rel date 30.09.2013
LP pressed on 180gm vinyl; sleeve printed in three Pantone colours; includes free MP3 download.
A1 / 1 Technique A2 / 2 Find My Way A3 / 3 Dugout A4 / 4 Eye Contact A5 / 5 Decoy Point
B1 / 6 Within Reach B2 / 7 Passwords B3 / 8 Sidetracked B4 / 9 Even Then B5 / 10 Imaginary Letters
Featuring all-new material and recorded in the band's isolated studio on the edge of the Essex marshes, the album ebbs and flows in mood like the nearby Blackwater estuary. Working with a palette of vintage drum machines, analogue synths, textural samples, acoustic recordings, electric bass & heavily treated guitar, the songs were born out of captured live studio performances. Cooper & Hammond then rewired their initial sketches through a series of hands-on, lo-fi effects chains, blurring the edges between acoustic & electronic elements. The result is an organic, playful feel; leaving the music room to breathe and carrying distinct echoes of the band's previous work.
BIOGRAPHY
Ultramarine are the London/Essex-based duo of Ian Cooper & Paul Hammond. Formed in 1989, the band's early records were released by the seminal Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscule. Ultramarine released five albums during the 1990s including the highly-acclaimed ambient techno/house classic Every Man And Woman Is A Star (Rough Trade, 1992); United Kingdoms (Blanco Y Negro, 1993), featuring writing collaborations with Robert Wyatt; and Bel Air (Blanco Y Negro, 1995). After a prolific decade, including full American and European tours with Björk and Orbital, Ultramarine went on a long sabbatical following the release of their fifth album A User's Guide (New Electronica, 1998). After a 13-year absence they resurfaced with two new singles in late 2011 on Real Soon and WNCL Recordings, fully rested and ready for action.
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UPC CD 827170131620 Rel date 7.10.2013
CD in 6-panel digipak printed in three Pantone colours.
A1 / 1 Technique A2 / 2 Find My Way A3 / 3 Dugout A4 / 4 Eye Contact A5 / 5 Decoy Point
B1 / 6 Within Reach B2 / 7 Passwords B3 / 8 Sidetracked B4 / 9 Even Then B5 / 10 Imaginary Letters
Featuring all-new material and recorded in the band's isolated studio on the edge of the Essex marshes, the album ebbs and flows in mood like the nearby Blackwater estuary. Working with a palette of vintage drum machines, analogue synths, textural samples, acoustic recordings, electric bass & heavily treated guitar, the songs were born out of captured live studio performances. Cooper & Hammond then rewired their initial sketches through a series of hands-on, lo-fi effects chains, blurring the edges between acoustic & electronic elements. The result is an organic, playful feel; leaving the music room to breathe and carrying distinct echoes of the band's previous work.
BIOGRAPHY
Ultramarine are the London/Essex-based duo of Ian Cooper & Paul Hammond. Formed in 1989, the band's early records were released by the seminal Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscule. Ultramarine released five albums during the 1990s including the highly-acclaimed ambient techno/house classic Every Man And Woman Is A Star (Rough Trade, 1992); United Kingdoms (Blanco Y Negro, 1993), featuring writing collaborations with Robert Wyatt; and Bel Air (Blanco Y Negro, 1995). After a prolific decade, including full American and European tours with Björk and Orbital, Ultramarine went on a long sabbatical following the release of their fifth album A User's Guide (New Electronica, 1998). After a 13-year absence they resurfaced with two new singles in late 2011 on Real Soon and WNCL Recordings, fully rested and ready for action.
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SUN DANCE is the debut full release by Berlin's RISING SUN, aka Steffen Laschinski. The EP features Rising Sun originals 'Sun Dance' and 'Candy In My Pocket' - two blissful tracks of old-style House-influenced minimalism infused with the heady atmosphere of early-90s innocence and joy - distant memories of simpler times - beach parties, bonfires, the sun rising over the sea at dawn… On the B-side, SVEN WEISEMANN (Mojuba, liebe*detail, a.r.t.less, Styrax Leaves) remixes 'Sun Dance', stretching it out into a beautiful shape-shifting epic. All tracks are mastered by masked Techno maverick REDSHAPE (Delsin, Present, Music Man, Styrax Leaves) and a limited quantity will be available on orange vinyl. Steffen Laschinski is currently best known as the label boss of influential labels Styrax Records, Styrax Leaves and Millions of Moments. Rising Sun have previously featured on split artist releases on the Workshop and Ruin labels.
B SIDE PLAYS INSIDE OUT!
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MINEFIELD E.P. is the second Real Soon release by Dublin-based Italian producer Leopoldo Rosa (aka LEROSA). On this 4-track EP Leo brings us more of his warm, loose-limbed, US-influenced, abstract House experiments and, on the snappy title track MINEFIELD, refers back to his earlier Electro sound. Whatever the style, Leo has a distinctive touch and a refreshingly simple, unpretentious production style - letting the machines do their business with the minimum of fuss. Leo has started to build a strong reputation over the past two years with a series of excellent releases on Real Soon, Enclave Recordings, A Touch of Class, Uzuri and Millions of Moments and has recently entered the live arena - look out for him in a club near you! More