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Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve; Heavyweight vinyl; Includes download code. Electronics guru James Holden and his newly-expanded band The Animal Spirits transport its listeners to a magical other world with this third album: a bold new set of synth-led folk-trance standards, fusing elements of psychedelia, krautrock, world, and spiritual jazz with Holden's usual propulsive melodic vigor into his most ambitious -- but also most accessible -- work to date. The synth-and-drum core of Holden's Inheritors-era (BC 040CD/LP, 2013) live touring outfit has picked up several members along the way, incorporating saxophone, cornet, recorder, and cosmic percussion, all recorded live together in one room under the direction of band leader Holden to produce a genre-blending new form of universal music that feels inherently fluid and alive.
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Electronics guru James Holden and his newly-expanded band The Animal Spirits transport its listeners to a magical other world with this third album: a bold new set of synth-led folk-trance standards, fusing elements of psychedelia, krautrock, world, and spiritual jazz with Holden's usual propulsive melodic vigor into his most ambitious -- but also most accessible -- work to date. The synth-and-drum core of Holden's Inheritors-era (BC 040CD/LP, 2013) live touring outfit has picked up several members along the way, incorporating saxophone, cornet, recorder, and cosmic percussion, all recorded live together in one room under the direction of band leader Holden to produce a genre-blending new form of universal music that feels inherently fluid and alive.
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BC 048LP
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Border Community's eager improvisers James Holden and Luke Abbott flirt with the new age on this split double LP with a pair of extended synth meditations indulging their respective loves of arpeggio and drone, both originally composed for the occasion of Terry Riley's 80th birthday in 2015. Holden's "Outdoor Museum of Fractals" fuses the endlessly unfolding fractal complexity of luxurious arpeggio washes with the pitched tabla drumming of Camilo Tirado, copilot on this hypnotic, meditative journey. Abbott's metallic gong-drone offering "555Hz" layers this mystical frequency and its related harmonics in a sequence of transportive, wave-like swells. Running over 45 and 30 minutes apiece, each composition is split in two for the heavyweight vinyl format, but both are available in uninterrupted form via the included download codes.
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Four years of slow-burning success, on from the rolling primal rhythms and joyous arpeggios of his 2010 debut Holkham Drones (BCR 030CD/LP), Luke Abbott makes a bold return with his sublime second album offering, Wysing Forest. Comprising a series of improvised live recordings compiled into one rapturous movement and hallmarked by the majestic elegiac pastorals of the two-part "Amphis" theme, this is most definitely an album which is greater than the sum of its parts, designed to be listened to in one immersive go. Although only a pair of tracks -- "Free Migration" and "Highrise" -- approach the idiosyncratic lumpen danceability of Holkham Drones, it is thanks to Luke's perfectly-judged elegant transitional dynamics that neither piece feels out of place amongst the album's more mellow moments.
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BC 045LP
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LP version with digital download.
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BC 044EP
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Welsh mystic Wesley Matsell returns to Border Community with an ebullient EP of '90s-tinged dance utopianism. Thoroughly road-tested in the DJ sets of James Holden, the staccato gasps of rave banger "Total Order of Being" exude a melodious, propulsive appeal. "Future Beacon" combines sacred, mystical arpeggios and rattling breakbeats; "Dowlais Wheelie Crew"'s layers of vibrant synths form a decidedly modern groove; and "Rite of Pant" is a rousing exercise in handmade primal proto-house. This is the final release in a collectable four-part series of limited vinyl (500 copies). All four covers fit together to reveal a larger picture by UK designer Jack Featherstone.
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BC 042EP
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Of all of the Class A synth-jams contained within James Holden's monumental album proclamation The Inheritors (BC 040CD/LP), the tape-softened fuzziness of "Circle of Fifths" may not seem like the most obvious single candidate -- but in these three not-on-the-album alternative interpretations, we see the foreboding-filled interlude assume surprising new proportions. The "Tool" version is more of a deep-and-dirty primal club freak-out that brings the lunatic gibbering of the mysterious Shimble right to the forefront. The "Dub," meanwhile, transposes the pagan aesthetic of the album for the communal ritual of the club dancefloor, while the final bonus "Gibbersolo" lets Shimble's Gollum-esque madness rip in a disturbing a cappella form.
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BC 040LP
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Repressed; triple 12" version. Comes in a gatefold sleeve and includes a download code. This is a whole new world and complete mythology in album form, which stretches way beyond the traditional confines of dance music. Holden has woven a rich aural tapestry that treads a singular path: nobody is making electronic music as explorative as what is found within The Inheritors. Bold, epic, and psychedelic, striking a delicate balance between weighty tome and transformative trip, and with a production aesthetic that is all his own, Holden is certain that this is the album that he always wanted to make. The Inheritors fully immerses you in a timeless space with abundant hidden depths.
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BC 040CD
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The Inheritors is the eagerly-awaited follow-up to James Holden's rightfully-acclaimed The Idiots Are Winning, a milestone from 2006. This is a whole new world and complete mythology in album form, which stretches way beyond the traditional confines of dance music. Holden has woven a rich aural tapestry that treads a singular path: nobody is making electronic music as explorative as what is found within The Inheritors. Bold, epic, and psychedelic, striking a delicate balance between weighty tome and transformative trip, and with a production aesthetic that is all his own, Holden is certain that this is the album that he always wanted to make. The Inheritors fully immerses you in a timeless space with abundant hidden depths.
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BC 036LP
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Double LP version with download coupon. Nathan Fake returns with an exuberant new third album -- a breathtaking landmark on his road to musical maturity that he has rightly branded his "best work to date." Crowning a decade of deftly-executed production versatility, Steam Days oscillates effortlessly between both ends of the electronic spectrum to unify both the soothing melodic indulgence and heavy dancefloor assault of Fake's albums of yore. Nostalgically immersing himself in his Norfolk heritage and the delicious analog richness of his beloved collection of vintage tape machines, Steam Days is the visceral translation of the innately musical producer's instinctive technical mastery into an astounding idiosyncratic musical reality.
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Nathan Fake returns with an exuberant new third album -- a breathtaking landmark on his road to musical maturity that he has rightly branded his "best work to date." Crowning a decade of deftly-executed production versatility, Steam Days oscillates effortlessly between both ends of the electronic spectrum to unify both the soothing melodic indulgence and heavy dancefloor assault of Fake's albums of yore. Nostalgically immersing himself in his Norfolk heritage and the delicious analog richness of his beloved collection of vintage tape machines, Steam Days is the visceral translation of the innately musical producer's instinctive technical mastery into an astounding idiosyncratic musical reality.
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BCR 030CD
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This is the debut album from Norfolk's Luke Abbott, channeling Britain's pagan heritage through an overwhelmingly satisfying electronic union of joyously Kraut-y arpeggios and rolling, primal rhythms. Abbott's Holkham Drones is a modern and decidedly British take on the Krautrock meme. Quirky, versatile, cerebral electronica that sits alongside Four Tet and Caribou in that middle ground between the dancefloor and home stereo, adaptable to both. "One of the finest left-field techno-electronica debuts of the year." --IDJ
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BCR 019EP
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Here is a tantalizing taste of Jake Fairley's (aka Fairmont) forthcoming debut album, Coloured In Memory. These five mixes of "Flight of the Albatross" will appeal to those looking for the dancefloor aspect of Border Community, while also catering to the more experimental end of the label's fan-base. The original mix skips along in triplet time while the other remixes take things into darker areas. Remixers include Reef Caribbean, Christ. and Metope.
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BCR 010CD
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"Straight out of the Norfolk countryside, 22 year old Nathan Fake is a most unlikely saviour of electronic music. His debut album Drowning in a Sea of Love is a truly enchanting collection of rocktronica at its finest -- loaded with Casio riffs, soaring fake-guitar lead lines, single live take recordings and a heap of lighters-in-the-air moments. Containing the original live take of the psychedelic epic 'The Sky Was Pink' (prior to its remix transformation into the electro anthem of last summer), this is a ballsy, gutsy eleven track wall of computer-noise, underlined by a rock-solid production ethic which belies Fake's tender years. Who needs a full band anyway? Homegrown UK talent like Nathan Fake doesn't come along every day, and it is little wonder that he is one of so many people's 'Tips for 2006': a true breath of fresh air in a dance scene desperately seeking direction."
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