SND / Travelog (Special Extended Edition) (2LP)

SND の『Travelog (Special Extended Edition)』。Mark Fell と Mat Steel によるユニットSND が自身のレーベルからリリースした３部作の最終章「Travelog」が、未発表トラックを６曲を加えて２枚組アナログ盤にて再発。ダンス・ミュージックとはまた異なるベクトルを持つミニマルなリズムがクール。こちらのオリジナルも入手困難でしたので、嬉しい再発となりました。

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# Mark Fell の関連商品

・Extended 12-track reissue of the third SND release dating back to 1999
・The original 6 tracks have been doubled in number with original, previously unreleased recordings from the same sessions
・Fully remastered from DAT tapes by Rashad Becker at D&M
・The original pressing has been unavailable since its original release 15 years ago
・Third of three extended reissues
・Super influential and forward minimalism bridging between the reductionism of Ikeda and the swing of early UKG.

‘Travelog’ was the third EP released by Mat Steel and Mark Fell as SND, arriving in 1999 just before the release of their influential debut album ‘Makesnd Cassette’ on the Mille Plateaux label.
Of the three EP reissues in the series, ‘Travelog’ contains the most developed and satisfying work from the pair, edging their reduced production palette into more fully-realised dimensions, colouring-in those instantly recognisable bass notes and isolated percussive elements with a slow, sublime trickle of melody.
The 6 extra tracks included are indispensable - extending the original EP into an hour of mesmerising, slowly immersive rhythmic pulses that still sound pretty much unlike anything you’ll have heard before - a perfect bridge between House, Techno and UKG re-imagined within a stripped structure that should act as a masterclass for a new school of producers trying to balance-out rhythmic complexity with space.
The opening ‘A1’ encapsulates this asymmetry brilliantly, bare swing and shuffle riding chiming chords that add warmth and space to an already intoxicating blueprint, while A3 takes those same elements and sharpens them into a slow, undulating alignment bolstered by that immaculate mastering treatment from Rashad Becker.
‘B3’ takes things deeper - a slow percussive edit slowly drowned-out by a growling analogue drone, while the closing side joins the dots between this EP series and that trio of albums for Mille Plateaux that would soon establish SND as the most forward-thinking and still resolutely original producers from an otherwise largely-forgotten musical era.

Tracklisting
A1. Untitled 3:15 / A2. Untitled 3:38 / A3. -3,100 6:00
B1. Untitled 5:00 / B2. Untitled 3:39 / B3. -1,193 6:23
C1. Untitled 4:55 / C2. Untitled 0:36 / C3. 853 7:04
D1. Untitled 5:14 / D2. Untitled 6:52 / D3. -1,100 5:13