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Thom says "the way he approached it all wasn't the usual singer songwriter guff thank god; it mirrored the way he approached all his composition and recording, but this time it had a human face. His face." Chris says "I kept on thinking what would it sound like if The Beach Boys took MDMA and made a rave record".
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Barry says: Chris Clarke has been slowly morphing his finely detailed productions from the thumping technoid excursions of the early days into the thoughtful, brittle ambient electronica we hear today. While there are still moments of fiery drive, it's a much more crystalline and focused end result, placing more emphasis on the quieter parts, and the silence between the notes than his (still) impeccable priduction aesthetic.TRACK LISTING
1. Alyosha
2. Town Crank
3. Sus Dog (feat. Anika)
4. Clutch Pearlers
5. Over Empty Streets
6. Wedding
7. Forest
8. Dolgoch Tap
9. Bully
10. Dismissive
11. Medicine (feat. Thom Yorke)
12. Ladder
The Temptations The Temps need no introduction, they were, of course, Motown’s most successul male vocal group scoring 18 No.1 R&B/Hot 100 singles and 3 Grammy’s. “All I Need Is You Love To Me” is another 1968 recording that eluded release at the time and is one their best, how could this slice of Motown magic escape. Finally making its vinyl debut 55 years on!
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1. Chris Clark - Whenever I'm Without You
2. The Temptations - All I Need Is You To Love Me
Recorded during a period the producer was living in the Midlands city of Birmingham in the UK, shortly before leaving for Berlin, Clark recalls the genesis of the album: “I can remember that period as getting really into krautrock and spending the day drumming on pillows along to Can records for six hours a day, when I think of that record that’s what I think of.”
Striking up a friendship with local band (and Warp labelmates) Broadcast was also a key factor: “They lived about ten minutes from me and I borrowed James Cargill’s drum kit and some mics of his, and all of the drums on that album are his old drum kit. There were some jams that me and James had, there’s one at the end of ‘Roulette Thrift Run’ which is basically just him on guitar and me plundering away on some drums, and I just pitched it up. Broadcast weren’t really in my circle of friends at the time but going to their place was sort of like a holiday from my normal social life, and I just loved it. Both Trish and James were both so full of wisdom, but I wasn’t really in with their scene of people at all, I’d just go there on my own and listen to records and have cups of tea.”
Broadcast also feature on an improvised version of ‘Herr Barr’ that was only previously available as a download on the Clark website. It has been compiled alongside other sought after rarities and unreleased material that related to Body Riddle on the new 05-10 collection. Clark explains a bit more about the tracks on it:
“It is that thing of collecting things that would otherwise be lost to the internet and wanting to put a shell around it. It’s important to do because I really love some of that material. I suppose what I love is some of those processes, there’s a modular jam called ‘Boiler The Wick’ that I just had all my gear setup and was recording like five modular tracks a day. I still miss that time because my studio is very different today and I’m slightly sick of modular because everyone’s got modular and everyone’s doing it, but this was like ten years ago and I can’t really say it’s connected to Body Riddle exactly, but it feels like a companion piece of sorts. For example that ‘Boiler The Wick’ track has a very similar energy to ‘Re-Scar Kiln’ and it feels like it could be from the same world.
The Throttle Furniture EP was 2005, and some of those tracks could have gone on Body Riddle but they would have took it in a more clubby direction, so it felt good to put a fence around them and just use those for live shows. Around the time of the Body Riddle live shows I was playing those tracks out a lot in various forms. So tracks like ‘Urgent Jel Hack’ were written before Body Riddle was finished, that was me getting into Valve and Dillinja and loving that stuff as well.
The more beatless, reflective pieces that are included connect to my recent album on Deutsche Grammophon, and also other ambient pieces I’ve done for Warp, they’ve been peppered throughout my back catalogue. ‘Sparrow Arc Tall’ is like a cousin of ’Springtime Epigram’ or ‘Dew On The Mouth’, it’s that vibe of something captured on 4-track and rendered in a session. So they all feel connected to that family of pieces, and it’s nice giving people ten more tracks after however many years.”
In conclusion, looking back on Body Riddle with 16 years of hindsight, Clark reflects: “I feel really good about it, it’s interesting hearing it again. It seems to be an album that meant a lot to some people and be a significant record, but for me it is just another album of mine.
It is a bit of a blueprint for how things have gone with my music since then, because it’s just so dynamic and all over the place and messy, but intentional, and the mess feels deliberate and the accidents feel illuminating and exciting, and that’s a spirit that I think I always want to capture in music. You know when you hear music that is less than the sum of its parts, and it should work because everything’s tidy and in its place but something doesn’t work? I think I always aspire to make music that’s more than the sum of its parts, that shouldn’t really work but it does, and that’s such a magical quality. I don’t know whether the record has that or not, but the album is certainly the result of trying to be like that, all of these diverse styles sitting alongside each other but the overall album makes it coherent.
I’ve always tried to write albums rather than tracks for streaming services. I’m always going to be an album artist whether the form’s alive or only loved by a hundred people on the planet, for me it’s still the ultimate form of expression. An album’s a perfect length of time, it’s like a short story, you can do it in a sitting and it’s not too much. With an album you can just go for a walk and have it in your headphones, and Body Riddle is that classic ‘go for a walk and listen to an album in one go’ kind of record. It’s not trying to be a club record, it’s pure listening music.”
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A1. Herr Bar
A2. Frau Wav
A3. Springtime Epigram
B1. Herzog
B2. Ted
B3. Roulette Thrift Run
C1. Vengeance Drools
C2. Dew On The Mouth
C3. Matthew Unburdened
D1. Night Knuckles
D2. The Autumnal Crush
Mastered from the original tapes.
C2 is a previously unheard improvisation with Broadcast.
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A1. Frau Wav (Brief Fling)
A2. Re-scar Kiln
A3. Urgent Jell Hack
B1. Dead Shark Eyes
B2. Boiler The Wick
B3. Dusk Raid
C1. Roller The Wick
C2. Herr Bar (Improv)
C3. Observe Harvest
D1. Sparrow Arc Tall
D2. Dusk Swells
D3. Autumn Linn
Mastered from the original tapes.
Includes previously unheard improvisation with Broadcast (Disc 2 track 8).
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Disc 1 - Body Riddle
01 Herr Bar
02 Frau Wav
03 Springtime Epigram
04 Herzog
05 Ted
06 Roulette Thrift Run
07 Vengeance Drools
08 Dew On The Mouth
09 Matthew Unburdened
10 Night Knuckles
11 The Autumnal Crush
Disc 2 - 05-10
01 Frau Wav (Brief Fling)
02 Re-Scar Kiln
03 Urgent Jell Hack
04 Dead Shark Eyes
05 Boiler The Wick
06 Dusk Raid
07 Roller The Wick
08 Herr Barr (Improv)
09 Observe Harvest
10 Sparrow Arc Tall
11 Dusk Swells
12 Autumn Linn
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With A Song In My Heart
Speak Low
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Sonny's Crib
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At the same time in 1983, when Reggie Griffin and Paul Thomas was mixing this instrumental track in L.A, the reverend Rickie Clark originally from Circle City in Indianapolis, came to see them and fell in love with the track, asking if he could used it for himself.
Licensed reissue on dinked 7" vinyl with an alternative edit of the track on the flip. Tasty!
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Matt says: Boogie Butt continue to provide rare-ass boogie and electro-funk reissues on 7". A true holy grail, you'd be looking at dropping at least a ton on this beaut if you were to even lay your eyes on a copy!TRACK LISTING
Side 1
1. Time To Throw Down (5:01)
Side 2
1. Time To Throw Down (45 Edit) (3:46)
TRACK LISTING
1. Where The Light Comes In
2. Driving At Night
3. You Know Me Better
4. Workhorse
5. I Promised You Light
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- LP
- £19.99
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- 4AD0070LP
- Release date
- 8 Nov '19
- Format Info
The original album Remastered and pressed on black vinyl.
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- 2xDeluxe CD
- £18.99
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- 4AD0070CDX
- Release date
- 8 Nov '19
- Format Info
Hardbound book cover.
The original album remastered & bonus disc of new session mixes.
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- CD
- £7.99
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- 4AD0070CD
- Release date
- 8 Nov '19
- Format Info
The original album Rremastered.
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“One of the greatest albums ever made. Initially celebrated for its obscurity, No Other is now celebrated for its magnificence. It was in every way a magnum opus: epic, sprawling, poetic, choral, rococo.” The Guardian
On the eve of what would have been American singer-songwriter and Byrds founding member Gene Clark’s 75th birthday comes the reissue of one of his finest works, No Other. Released in 1974 on Asylum Records, a year after the Byrds shortlived reunion, Gene reached for the stars with No Other; a psychedelic rock, folk, country and soul record that famously cost a small fortune to make. Although received warmly by critics, it flopped and was soon deleted, a failure Gene never came to terms with.
However, as The New York Times wrote around the record’s 40th anniversary in 2014, “hindsight has burnished No Other, as it has redeemed other albums that went on to be reconstructed as rock repertory, like Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers and Lou Reed’s Berlin,” with the album now being increasingly recognised as one of the greatest of its time, if not all time.
45 years on and recently remastered at Abbey Road, 4AD have given No Other the reappraisal it deserves.
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Darryl says: Recently remastered at Abbey Road and 45 years on from its original release 4AD are giving Gene Clark’s 1974 masterpiece it’s long overdue reissue. Available on black vinyl, standard CD, a limited deluxe CD edition in a hardbound book cover, and an all encompassing and sumptuous silver box set containing vinyl, three SACD’s, Blu-Ray and an 80 page hardbound book.TRACK LISTING
LP & CD Tracklist:
No Other (Remastered)
1. Life’s Greatest Fool
2. Silver Raven
3. No Other
4. Strength Of Strings
5. From A Silver Phial
6. Some Misunderstanding
7. The True One
8. Lady Of The North
2CD Tracklist:
No Other (Remastered)
1. Life’s Greatest Fool
2. Silver Raven
3. No Other
4. Strength Of Strings
5. From A Silver Phial
6. Some Misunderstanding
7. The True One
8. Lady Of The North
No Other (Sessions 1)
1. From A Silver Phial (Version 4)
2. Silver Raven (Version 2)
3. Some Misunderstanding (Version 3)
4. Life’s Greatest Fool (Version 2)
5. Train Leaves Here This Morning (Version 2)
6. Lady Of The North (Version 2)
7. The True One (Version 2)
8. Strength Of Strings (Version 2)
9. No Other (Version 2)
Deluxe Boxset Tracklist:
No Other (Remastered)
1. Life’s Greatest Fool
2. Silver Raven
3. No Other
4. Strength Of Strings
5. From A Silver Phial
6. Some Misunderstanding
7. The True One
8. Lady Of The North
No Other (Sessions 1)
1. From A Silver Phial (Version 4)
2. Silver Raven (Version 2)
3. Some Misunderstanding (Version 3)
4. Life’s Greatest Fool (Version 2)
5. Train Leaves Here This Morning (Version 2)
6. Lady Of The North (Version 2)
7. The True One (Version 2)
8. Strength Of Strings (Version 2)
9. No Other (Version 2)
No Other (Sessions 2)
1. From A Silver Phial (Version 1)
2. Life’s Greatest Fool (Version 1)
3. No Other (Version 1)
4. Lady Of The North (Version 1)
5. Some Misunderstanding (Version 1)
6. Silver Raven (Version 1)
7. Train Leaves Here This Morning (Version 1)
8. The True One (Version 1)
9. Strength Of Strings (Version 1)
10. Life’s Greatest Fool (Single Version)
11. Silver Raven (Single Edit)
Exclusive 7”
A. Life’s Greatest Fool (Single Version)
AA. Train Leaves Here This Morning (Version 1)
Documentary
The Byrd Who Flew Alone: The Making Of No Other By Paul Kendall
No Other (Alternate Audio Versions)
No Other (HD Audio Remaster)
No Other (5.1 Surround Mix)
No Other (1974 Vinyl Master)
No Other (2019 Stereo Remix
80 Page Hardbound Book
Extensive Liner Notes
Lyrics
Previously Unpublished Photographs
Essays By Andrew Perry, Jon Einarson, Johnny Rogan, Martin Aston & Sid Griffin.
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- SC361CD
- Release date
- 7 Sep '18
‘Where Neon Goes To Die’ retells Clark’s travels through the Miami’s nocturnal fantasyland. At its core, it is the story of a musician casting aside the distractions of his youth and discovering not only a new level of maturity but a new level to his talents.
After a string of mixtapes and EPs and his 2015 debut album ‘The Lonely Roller’, Clark is making music more confidently than he ever has before, sliding effortlessly between effervescent future disco on ‘Feel This Way’ to purple-tinged slow-burn soul on ‘Easy Fall’, a duet with Gavin Turek.
TRACK LISTING
Maria, Under The Moon
Feel This Way
Easy Fall
On And On
Found
Did I Hurt U
Evil Woman
Days Like This
War
What Can I Do
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- CD
- £9.99
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- WARPCD282
- Release date
- 7 Apr '17
Artwork by Alma Haser, a continuation of her work for Clark that began with the cover for his eponymous 2014 album.
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Barry says: Clark has long been a love/hate relationship for me, I've been disappointed at points with what I now believe I just didn't understand, but THIS is another matter. Full of the same sort of spine-tingling seismic shifts that made 'Growls Garden' such a standout track, Death Peak is an absolute stormer. Future leftfield genius this, classic Clark.-
- Mini LP
- £9.99
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- QFR009
- Release date
- 24 Mar '17
- Format Info
Limited edition - 300 copies only.
Limited edition - 300... [ + ]
“An artist who matches an affecting flourish with a dissonant sonic touch, her work is both challenging and completely immediate.” - Clash Magazine
“Hannah Lou Clark and her band, equal parts anxsty and dreamy” - Brooklyn Vegan
‘The Heart And All Its Sin’ was mixed and co-produced by Tarek Musa from Spring King and is a collection of songs exploring the complexities of love and loss. Hannah Lou Clark has laid her soul bare in these songs in a way that others would never do.
Lead track ‘Don’t Sweat It’ bravely addresses the yearnings of the heart in times of turmoil; with lines like “champagne takes the edge off me” she can see that whilst giving into our vices can’t help the heart heal, it can be a welcome distraction. Full of crunching guitars and wickedly smart melodies, it sees Clark push her limits further once again. “I think people worry too much about small things, and we know it too,” Clark says, speaking about her new track. “The simple message is that life is too short, and there’s nothing wrong with letting your hair down.”
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- Ltd 12"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- WAP390 (#RSD16)
- Release date
- 29 Apr '16
Record Store Day rave 12” from Warp mainstays Mark Pritchard, Bibio and Clark.
Mark Pritchard kicks off the 12 with throwback jungle anthem ‘A Badman Sound’; the classic Amen break gets laced with rave stabs and intermittent dub sirens.
‘Heath Town’ is the opposite of what you’d expect from Bibio. In particular, the second half takes stylistic cues from ‘A Badman Sound’ and features the popular, euphoric James Brown-produced ‘Yeah Woo’ sample.
Clark winds down with ‘Inf Inf Inf Inf’, a more ambient sound that brings in broken beats and is reminiscent of early Aphex Twin.
2016 is an exciting year for all three artists:
In May, Mark Pritchard is releasing his first album under his own name.
In April, Bibio releases his fifth album on Warp, A Mineral Love.
And after releasing his most successful album yet in late 2014, Clark returns with ‘The Last Panthers’ record, inspired by his score of the Sky Arts drama series of the same name.
For fans of: Aphex Twin, Autechre, Special Request, Om Unit
Vinyl 12" in 3mm spine sleeve with centre holes (in Warp house bag).
Limited to 500 copies.
TRACK LISTING
Mark Pritchard – A Badman Sound
Bibio – Heath Town
Clark – Inf Inf Inf Inf
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- 12"
- £8.99
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- QFR006
- Release date
- 22 Apr '16
This is Hannah’s second EP and the follow up to her critically acclaimed debut EP ‘Silent Type’.
Extensive touring around the release of ‘Silent Type’ offered a fresh perspective on certain things in Hannah’s life. ‘It’s Your Love’ was written over this touring period and sees Hannah further experimenting sonically.
Produced by Hannah and mixed by Tarek Musa of Spring King, this EP offers an artist in full command of her voice.
TRACK LISTING
It’s Your Love
Cowboy Joe
Euphoria
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- Deluxe CD
- £14.99
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- WARPCD274
- Release date
- 18 Mar '16
- Format Info
Each CD comes in a casebound hand numbered sleeve with a silver foil stamp applied to the back cover.
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The six part series, co-produced by Warp Films (‘Southcliffe’, ‘71’, ‘Four Lions’, ‘This Is England’) and Haut et Court (‘The Returned’), stars Samantha Morton, Tahar Rahim and John Hurt and was descibed by The Guardian as “bold, smart and seductive.”
Clark approached ‘The Last Panthers’ soundtrack with the same ethos as his artist releases; combining sounds of the natural world with clinical, machine enhanced production and an experimental, exploratory attitude. Here he breaks off from his mainline discography to deliver this stunning project, meticulously edited and expanded from the original score into a coherent listening experience.
This new release from Clark forms part of a burgeoning movement of contemporary artists working in the soundtrack and composition world, including Mica Levi, Mogwai, Jon Hopkins and Ólafur Arnalds.
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- Indies Exclusive LP
- £18.99
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- SC301LP-C1
- Release date
- 13 Nov '15
- Format Info
Indies exclusive blue vinyl edition.
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- CD
- £3.99
- Cat Number
- SC301CD
- Release date
- 13 Nov '15
On songs such as ‘Not You’, he flips a brutally honest breakup tale and draws emotions and empathy from being on the ‘right’ side of the conversation.
The title track uses a slinky, sensual beat to create a perfect backdrop to tell the story of a weekend-long tryst in Vegas. For a man of few words, his unadorned and uncomplicated lyrics hit home.
“… a heroic underdog of the specific, delivering diarylike lyrics detailed enough to provide a loaded portrait of a young man in transition.” - SPIN
TRACK LISTING
Lonely Roller
Trouble Baby
Not You
Can’t Have
Bounty Time
Machine
Floral Print
Part Two
She’s In Love
Young, Wild, Free
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- Ltd 7"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- ZIA001 (RSD14)
- Release date
- 28 Apr '14
- Format Info
* First time on vinyl since original pressings in 1967
* Color artwork
* Limited to 500 copies on “GOLD” wax worldwide for Record Store Day
* First time on vinyl... [ + ]
Zia Records, a fixture for music fans in Arizona since 1980, is proud to present the first installment of the Audio Recorders Archive, a series of split 45s that explore the history of famed Phoenix studio Audio Archive.
The first installment in the series features country king Waylon Jennings and rockabilly legend Sanford Clark, recordings that have not been available on vinyl since their original release on Ramco Records in 1967. In the 1950s and ‘60s, Audio Recorders was one of the premier studios in the southwest. With roots in owner Floyd Ramsey’s Ramsey’s Radio Repair on 7th and Weldon, the studio became the hub of the nascent Phoenix music scene, and the studio welcomed a who’s who of the Southwestern country, pop, roots, and rock & roll performers: Duane Eddy, Lee Hazlewood, Waylon Jennings, Al Casey, Wayne Netwon, Sanford Clark, and more.
With his own Ramco Records imprint, Ramsey issued records that would go on to regional and national success. Future Audio Recorders releases from Zia Records will explore soul, R&B, and garage rock, but the first volume focuses on Jennings’ dust-caked ode to a tough woman, and Clark’s gun shot-boasting murder ballad. Both make good use of the vaunted Audio Recorders reverb silo.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Waylon Jennings, “My Baby Walks All Over Me”
B1. Sanford Clark, “It’s Nothing To Me”
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- Ltd 12"
- £12.99
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- ERATP049LP
- Release date
- 29 Jul '13
‘Peter Broderick loved the sound of this synthesiser so much, he asked me to record some solo sketches with it. This is what I came up with. I didn't use any overdubs or punch-ins. See it as a synthesiser solo performance.’ – Nils Frahm
The cover photograph was taken by Peter Broderick and is a result of an unexpected double exposure between his image and the one taken by the camera’s previous owner. Dedicated to his dear friend, the Juno tracks carry the titles ‘For’ and ‘Peter’ and were recorded and mixed by Nils Frahm in his Durton Studio in Berlin.
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- 12"
- £5.49
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- WAP245
- Release date
- 19 May '08