Artist : SND
Title : Tplay 1 5
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2014
Date : 07/2014
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 11
Catalog : SND1se
Label : Snd
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 62:30 min
Size : 103,6 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Tplay 1 5 01 09:44
02.Tplay 1 5 02 05:11
03.Tplay 1 5 03 05:08
04.Tplay 1 5 04 06:46
05.Tplay 1 5 05 04:37
06.Tplay 1 5 06 05:26
07.Tplay 1 5 07 04:30
08.Tplay 1 5 08 05:26
09.Tplay 1 5 09 05:52
10.Tplay 1 5 10 05:16
11.Tplay 1 5 11 04:34
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62:30 min
From Boomkat:
*Extended 70 minute reissue of the very
first SND release dating back to 1998 -
the original 5 tracks have been doubled
in number with original, previously
unreleased recordings from the same
sessions, all fully remastered from DAT
tapes by Rashad Becker at D&M. The
original pressing has been unavailable
since its original release over 15 years
ago - containing super influential and
forward minimalism bridging between the
reductionism of Ikeda and the swing of
early UKG* Mark Fell and Mat Steel
formed SND in Sheffield in 1998. Tplay
was their first self-released EP,
produced in a limited run and housed in
a sleeve adorned with nothing but a
stamped phone number on the back. Their
palette and minimalist aesthetic more or
less fell inline with the emergent
school of producers that would
eventually find themselves as labelmates
on the Mille Plateaux label and the
monolithic Raster Noton (Ikeda, Pan
Sonic, Alva Noto, Bretschneider) - but
as opposed to the intricacies and
overly-academic strictures that would
occupy so many of their contemporaries
over the following decade, in hindsight
itÆs easy to identify how SND uniquely
managed to re-code the swing & shuffle
of UK Garage and Two-Step within a new
minimalist paradigm. Although producers
such as G-Man, Sterac, Jeff Mills and
Rob Hood had been stripping bare Techno
templates since the early 90Æs, it
wasnÆt until later in the decade that
dots where joined between movements in
Techno and experimental electronic
music. This was mostly a serious and
contemplative movement - typified by the
fetishisation of abstract forms on the
one hand, and rigid, Teutonic movement
on the other. But with the release of
Tplay SND had created a sound that was
unlike anything else made at the time.
Although they were guided by minimalist
principles, their productions were also
driven by the momentum of a much more
colourful type of urban music. Simply
put - there was no one else bridging
gaps between the austere functions of
European electronic music and LondonÆs
emergent two-step sound. Truth is - if
you bought Ryoji Ikeda albums you were
unlikely to have thought much of Artful
Dodger - and yet SND made music that
drew influence and parallels from both.
Listening over 15 years later, itÆs
startling just how fresh and forward
these productions sound, now bolstered
by over 30 minutes of previously unheard
recordings taken from the same sessions.
At a time when some corners of club
music are arguably more accepting than
ever before of strange and challenging
production styles, its incredible just
how unique and inimitable SNDÆs sound
still is, taking us full circle to
current producers like Visionist,
Mumdance and Rabit who look to challenge
dancefloor conventions by using the same
principle of reduction and innovation
without neglecting the dance.