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Clubbed: A Visual History of UK Club Culture

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Clubbed celebrates the best graphic design in UK clubs and features logos, posters, photography, tickets, menus, cover art, signage, lanyards, fonts and, yes, flyers from the last 35 years The deluxe, diamond dust, hardback features a dazzling collection of never-before-published materials and a specially commissioned editorial from Bill Brewster This beautifully conceived graphic design reference book is separated into chapters celebrating the UK's most famous clubs and legendary nights, celebrating the past, but also journeying to the present, focusing on the most forward-thinking graphic designers working in clubs today The journey starts in the 1980s with the Haçienda, then heads off into a dizzying road journey via Mansfield, Liverpool and several points in between before alighting at the Printworks in London with some of the modern era's best graphic design work Many of the graphics in the book are pre-digital and the internet so a lot of time has been spent scanning old transparencies, bromides and retouching physical hard copies. In some cases the graphics have been recreated from scratch down to every minute detail The book features some of the best designers and studios in the world

Smile Kiddy: One Trick Pony

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Raised in the outskirts of Paris, his career has embraced music, fashion and film and established Kiddy as a key figure in Paris's LGBTQ community and the voguing and ballroom scenes. Working as a fashion stylist and club night host, he was asked to develop Balmain's sound identity which led to further collaborations with the likes of Balenciaga and Versace. Two well-received singles Teardrops in The Box and Let A Bitch Know released Defected set the musical template for his first album 'One Trick Pony' 'One Trick Pony' sees Kiddy working with such talents as Rouge Mary (Hercules & Love Affair) Be Honest, Burn The House Down & e Friend and Crookers Dickmatized. Citing gospel and hip-hop, 90s Chicago and Detroit as influences, Kiddy has delivered an album with house DNA at it's core whilst embracing a pop sensibility. It explores intimate, personal topics unrequited love, paternal desertion and acceptance of one's body "I define myself as a house-music artist. Queer is limiting. My music reflects my everyday life. I talk about me and being black and gay. My songs are about love. They're not political, but my work is The lead single Dicktamized is about "toxic relationships, the ones you know you would be best to remove yourself but you're almost hypnotised into thinking if the sex is good you should carry ." It's taken from the soundtrack of Gaspar Noe's latest and critically acclaimed movie 'Climax' premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival and also featuring Kiddy

Brian Eno: Ambient 4: On Land (1LP)

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Brian's ambient album from 1982. Unlike most of Brian Eno's conceptually unified ambient projects, Ambient 4: On Land is something of a patchwork Recorded in six studios between 1978 and 1982, the eight pieces - ranging between three to nine minutes in length - are a curious mixture of solo works for treated instruments and full-fledged collaborations Lizard Point is the standout, with the synthesizer, bass, and guitar of material's Michael Beinhorn, Bill Laswell, and Axel Gros providing a denser and more varied musical backing than most of Eno's ambient works. Shadow, a duet with trumpeter Jon Hassell, introduces a world music element similar to their fourth world one: possible musics duet album, and Dunwich Beach, Autumn 1960 introduces guitarist Michael Brook and multi-instrumentalist / co-producer Daniel Lanois, who became one of Eno's most valuable collaborators throughout the '80s The solo pieces refine ideas first explored on earlier ambient works, though with greater subtlety and increased tonal colour Standard Version. Cut at Abbey Road Studios at 33RPM and pressed on 180 Gram Black Heavyweight Vinyl and Download.

The Chemical Brothers: Exit Planet Dust (2LP)

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For years before the release ofExit Planet Dust, the production duo of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons were cranking out slabs of the biggest sounds around on the label junior boys' own. A key record of the 1990s,Exit Planet Dust invented the big-beat style that dominated British dance music in the second half of the decade, and it still sounds superb in its own right Skull-crunching hip-hop loops, fuzz guitar, insistently repetitive spoken samples and thunderous basslines make up the blueprint for one of the most instantly energising albums ever recorded Many of the titles - Chemical Beats, Fuck up Beats, Chico's Groove are fairly self-explanatory. Others show a level of erudite humour; Song to the Siren filches the name of a Tim Buckley ballad for a track more in keeping with the mysteries of a car alarm, while One Too Many Mornings is nothing that Bob Dylan would recognise in a hurry Collaborations with Beth Orton (Alive Alone) and the Charlatans' Tim Burgess (Life is Sweet) add human voices to the brilliant mechanical formula Double 180 Gram Vinyl Track list:Leave HomeIn Dust We TrustSong to the SirenThree Little Birdies Down BeatsFuck Up BeatsChemical BeatsChico's GrooveOne Too Many MorningsLife Is SweetPlayground of a Wedgeless FirmAlive Alone Released: 28/10/2016

Kraftwerk: The Man Machine (2020 Colour Repress)

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Limited Indie edition pressed on red vinyl Includes a 16 page 12" x 12" booklet Released 9 October 2020 A bold new look, sound and concept for Kraftwerk. Over supple processed rhythms which predate the rise of European techno and trance, they address automation and alienation, space travel and engineering, the seductive allure of urban landscapes and the vacant glamour of celebrity Clipped and funky, The Robots adds another dimension to Kraftwerk's ultra-dry sense of humour. Behind its intoxicating melodic pulse, The Model is a highly prophetic satire on the beauty industry, so ahead of its time that it only becomes a UK chart-topper by accident three years later. And Neon Lights is Kraftwerk's most achingly romantic song to date, a sci-fi lullaby for cities at twilight. Pure magic

Kraftwerk: Computer World (2020 Colour Repress)

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Limited Indie edition pressed on neon yellow vinyl Includes a 16 page 12" x 12" booklet Released 9 October 2020 Computer World captured the band right at the moment when its pioneering approach fully broke through in popular music, thanks to the rise of synth pop, hip-hop, and electro As Arthur Baker sampled Tans-Europe Express for Planet Rock and disciples like Depeche Mode, OMD, and Gary Numan scored major hits, Computer World demonstrated that the old masters still had some last tricks up their collective sleeves. Compared to earlier albums, it fell readily in line with the Man-Machine, eschewing side-long efforts but with even more of an emphasis on shorter tracks mixed with longer but not epic compositions

Kraftwerk: Autobahn (2020 Colour Repress)

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Limited Indie edition pressed on transparent blue coloured vinyl Includes a 16 page booklet Released 9 October 2020 With its iconic Emil Schult sleeve, Kraftwerk released their international breakthrough album. The symphonic title track, an epic ode to the joys of motorway travel, wraps a mesmerising motorik rhythm around a sampled collage of car horns, engine noise, whirring tyres and radio crackle. In edited form, it becomes a revolutionary hit single around the world Elsewhere, in wordless industrial folk music, the band reveal both their light and dark sides – "Mitternacht" is all creeping midnight shadows, while "Morgenspaziergang" is fresh with morning dew and birdsong. Two versions of "Kometenmelodie", one a starkly gothic prowl, the other a sunny electro boogie, provide further instrumental sound paintings Pure and strong and bold, Kraftwerk compose cinema for the ears. The pop world falls in love with them Track list:1. Autobahn (2009 Digital Remaster)2. Kometenmelodie 1 (2009 Digital Remaster)3. Kometenmelodie 2 (2009 Digital Remaster)4. Mitternacht (2009 Digital Remaster)5. Morgenspaziergang (2009 Digital Remaster) Heavyweight vinyl LP, 2009 digital remaster.

Memory Code Vinyl

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MEMORY CODE is a project with the central focus on the human memory. Originally developed as an audio/video live performance the duo SCHNITT based their research for this work on the decoding of their personal memory During the composition of the album, Schnitt undergoes an inspection and analysis of their own conserved informations, automatisms and intense emotional states connecting them with their current state of mind The album Memory Code is developed in nine tracks, each one dedicated to a certain type of memory in which successions of layers gradually become visible and emerge in the soundstructure generating a balance between subtle personal sensations and vibrations. Crumbled fragments of memory - undefined and blurred combine and overlap, a disorderly flow of events subordinated to rigid mathematical structures are finding a location in the sound space interposed between past echoes and future moments For the realisation of the album MEMORY CODE, SCHNITT extends their work inviting several international artists to participate with their personal sound memory to the project, asking them to send one or more “ memory sound files” in order to integrate and open the project to other artistic influences, different cultural backgrounds, national origins and generations The "memory file" contributions received by the eleven guest artists Caterina Barbieri, Ignacio Aguilera Bericochea, Tilman Ehrhorn, Anders Ilar, Incite/, Vitor Joaquim, Herman Kolgen, Ran Slavin, TacitGroup, Frans de Waard and Pavel Zhagun are integrated as a micro ignition of memory into the sound structures previously developed by SCHNITT, as well as being an initial input for new compositions in behalf of the Memory Code album FEATURING : CATERINA BARBIERI, I.A. BERICOCHEA, TILMAN EHRHORN, ANDERS ILAR, INCITE/, VITOR JOAQUIM, RAN SLAVIN, TACIT GROUP, FRANS DE WAARD, PAVEL ZHAGUN, HERMAN KOLGEN Track list: A1 | VISUAL MEMORY : 4,59 A2 | SENSORY MEMORY : 4,10A3 | EPISODIC MEMORY : 4,17 A4 | EIDETIC MEMORY : 4,57 A5 | EXPLICIT MEMORY : 3,32B1 | ECHOIC MEMORY : 5,45B2 | SHORT-TERM MEMORY : 4,53 B3 | IMPLICIT MEMORY : 5,07B4 | LONG-TERM MEMORY : 5,23