Various Artists
em:t0003
© 2003 em:t records
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An ambient/electronic compilation to celebrate the re-launch of em:t records. Keep an inquiring mind.
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- 1 paralysis - gregor samsa
- 2 the loneliness of the long distance space traveller - radium88
- 3 red green blue - high skies
- 4 alabama - beatsystem
- 5 desert sunrise - brannan lane
- 6 fireworks - international peoples gang
- 7 the sutra - chushen & cugin
- 8 i can't hear you - andy hughes
- 9 00 - richie warburton
- 10 savannah - mia
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One of the surprises of summer 2003 was the news that the UK em:t label, which folded back in 1998, was being relaunched. The label's releases broadly worked the ambient end of the techno spectrum overlapping with outre sonic experimentation and field recordings. All beautifully packaged after a zoological theme. Although ostensibly a new company, em:t continue where they left off with em:t 0003 (em:t 0003CD), described as a packaging concept and music 'designed to reward the careful listener'. The compilation shows their quality control is as stringent as ever. "Paralysis" by Gregor Samsa opens impressively with ghostly voices wafting through a structure sketched out by beginner's piano. International Peoples Gang, meanwhile, return to the label fresh from remixing Beth Orton. "Fireworks", however, is an atomised pop song menaced by unpredictable bleeps of rogue technology, before it ends with a layered concrete section and an English country garden ambience of uneasy tranquillity. But the standout "Alabama" by Beatsystem, who first recorded for the label in 1992. Over its loping beats, a rootsy vocal sample vies for space with waves of varispeed vocal babble - close, in fact, to the style Moby premiered on Play, only considerably more imaginative (MB)