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01. FUNCTION & VATICAN SHADOW - Things Known
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02. FUNCTION & VATICAN SHADOW - Things Unknown
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03. FUNCTION & VATICAN SHADOW - The Nemesis Flower
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04. FUNCTION & VATICAN SHADOW - A Year Has Passed
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05. FUNCTION & VATICAN SHADOW - A Year Has Gone By
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06. FUNCTION & VATICAN SHADOW - Red Opium
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07. FUNCTION & VATICAN SHADOW - Bejeweled Body
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ARTIST
FUNCTION & VATICAN SHADOW
TITLE
Games Have Rules
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
CATALOG #
HOS 425LP
HOS 425LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
10/7/2014
Repressed; Gatefold double LP version.
Function
and
Vatican Shadow
have combined forces on
Games Have Rules
for Hospital Productions, simultaneously stripping back each producer's more prevalent production elements -- the dancefloor-focused techno structures of Function; the experimental cassette-roots of Vatican Shadow -- to create an album of dynamic electronic ambient music, equal parts rhythmic and atmospheric. As befitting what began life as an "emotional acid" album best suited for an after-hours home-listening experience,
Games Have Rules
was created in the early hours at New York's Hospital Productions and Berlin's Inanimate Objects studios, helping imbue the record with a sense of night turning into day, and the shifting contrasts of dark and light the music evokes. Although not created as the result of improvisation, the album retains an effortless, free-flowing structure, while simultaneously introducing the traditional techno drum kit over the course of the record, deconstructing the ever-changing, looming presence of New York City's skyline. Ambient in the most traditional sense,
Games Have Rules
omits the top-heavy reverb saturation of so many modern releases and builds from the ground up with an arsenal of hi-fi and lo-fi production techniques/equipment with a cinematic sequence over the arc of the record. But whereas New York City has so often been depicted in film as a prison,
Games Have Rules
is an embracement of the city's endless possibilities: the LP's gatefold black and white image of The Empire State Building lit up at night from the inside; the ongoing stories of rise and decline lived out at its base.
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