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01. RICHARD YOUNGS - Rurtain (Shonny Don)
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02. RICHARD YOUNGS - Rurtain (Keymarno)
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03. RICHARD YOUNGS - Rurtain (Astral Social Club Remix)
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04. RICHARD YOUNGS - Rurtain (John Clyde-Evans Remix)
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05. RICHARD YOUNGS - Rurtain (Oneohtrix Point Never Remix)
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ARTIST
YOUNGS, RICHARD
TITLE
Rurtain
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ALTER
CATALOG #
ALT 007LP
ALT 007LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
10/23/2012
At this point in time
Richard Youngs
should need no introduction. Through his vast discography (spanning over 20 years), he has created a fascinating body of work which has found a home on labels such as Forced Exposure, VHF, Jagjaguar and his own No Fans imprint. Like all great artists, Richard's work is hard to pin down and continues to evolve, mutate, and blossom into new forms, while at the same time bearing a unique characteristic that lets you know it could be by no-one else. Split into two parts,
Rurtain
is a new electronic piece which picks up from where the
Core to the Brave
LP on Root Strata left off, but taking a more abstract road into something more skeletal and strange. In the first part, broken beats cluster around minimal hits of percussion and wordless vocals that sound like they're trapped in a vacuum, evoking a slightly unsettling atmosphere. Things become a little more celebratory in the second part with the addition of some very erratic organ playing, giving an ecstatic and almost "free-jazz" feel to the piece. The B-side features three very different interpretations of Richard's originals by
Neil Campbell
(
Astral Social Club
),
John Clyde-Evans
and
Daniel Lopatin
(
Oneohtrix Point Never
). Neil's version expands the organ of the second piece into a huge kaleidoscopic drone, while John hones in on the woodblock and percussion to make something more metallic and abrupt. Finally,
Daniel Lopatin
closes the LP grandly by adding violent stabs of digital synth and melancholic guitar-playing to Richard's voice, almost creating a kind of futuristic ballad. Five tracks of unclassifiable electronics, limited to 300 copies. Recorded by Richard Youngs,
Neil Campbell
, John Clyde-Evans and Daniel Lopatin in Glasgow, Yorkshire and New York, 2011 - 2012. Mastered by
John Hannon
at No Recording Studio and cut by
Rashad Becker
at Dubplates & Mastering.
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