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artist: Ultramarine
album: United Kingdoms
label: Sire
cat: 9 24528-2
year: 1993
genre: Electronic
sub-genre: folktronica chamber-techno ambient shag
source: Cdda
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.97 V2 --Vbr-New -V 2
quality: VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 76,6 MB
link: n/a
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
01 05:36 Source
02 04:53 Kingdom
03 05:47 Queen Of The Moon
04 04:41 Prince Rock
05 04:48 Happy Land
06 04:46 Urf
07 08:54 English Heritage
08 02:26 Instant Kitten
09 06:02 The Badger
10 04:48 Hooter
11 08:03 Dizzy Fox
12 04:32 No Time
total time: 65:16 min
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│release notes.
Ultramarine, London-based duo Ian Cooper and Paul Hammond, began
life in 1989 initially inspired by early UK house music and
long-standing schoolboy crushes on the white funk of A Certain
Ratio, 23 Skidoo and Cabaret Voltaire. Simon Reynolds described
their sound on their classic first lp "Perhaps the first and best
stab at that seeming contradiction-in-terms, pastoral techno... all
sun-ripened, meandering lassitude and undulant dub-sway tempos...
like acid-house suffused with the folky-jazzy ambience of the
Canterbury scene."
On their underrated 2nd lp they go even deeper into the countryside
and recruit fellow traveler and Canterbury original Robert Wyatt to
provide songwriting, recording and distinctive vocal support.
"United Kingdoms is a densely textured experience that stands up to
repeated listens and remains Ultramarine's most ambitious, most
conceptually rewarding album. Less dependent on recognizable
samples than its predecessor, the album employs live instruments
(accordion, harmonica, violin and woodwinds) for a chamber-techno
effect...in execution, the songs are percolating pop masterpieces,
encapsulating the band's fascination with technology, socialism and
heritage." Trouser Press
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