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Night Language

We've got an agreement now, Pure Life (the person) comes into the shop and brings me some records and says 'You'll like this' and then I take ages to upload it and when I finally listen to it I *really* do like it and tell everyone to buy it and by the time I do, it's sold out. 

I know that's not the best way to hear about something when you probably can't buy it, but believe me if you see this and like synth music or ambient music or even Pure Life (the label), you'll be entirely up for this, but let me warn you now, you should definitely buy anything you like when you can.  

So then to the latest from Dennis Huddleston aka 36. Waves of digital synth and blipping arps, shimmering reverb and FM-stabs, woozy crescendos and echoing, Jan Hammer-y melodies, slowly growing walls of sound that fade and bloom, swell and retract. It's a gorgeous thing, and It deserves all of your attention, not that you'll have a choice after a couple minutes. 

A stunning, characteristically immersive behemoth from 36 and Pure Life.  

TRACK LISTING

1. Pre-Dream Condition 07:02
2. Manual Dream Transmission 06:17
3. A Bright And Tranquil Light 06:51
4. Night Language 05:43
5. Nite Range 07:07
6. An Endless Purple Sea 05:48 

Ol Dirty Bastard

Return To The 36 Chambers - 2025 Repress

It's safe to say that hip-hop has never seen an album like Ol’ Dirty Bastard's 1995 solo debut Return to the 36 Chambers. The brief glimpses of ODB's unhinged genius provided by Wu-Tang Clan's landmark Enter the Wu-Tang album two years earlier were begging to be expanded on to a larger canvas, and, with RZA guiding production, the album promised to give Dirty the creative license to make one of the most bizarre, entertaining and original LPs in hip-hop history. With his raspy, drunken flow and dark sense of humor, Dirty fearlessly attacks from all angles, throwing himself fearlessly into punchy rhyme attacks (“Damage,” with GZA), drugged-out party jams (the monster singles “Brooklyn Zoo” and “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”) and bizarre, grimly hilarious fantasies of sex and violence (“Don't U Know” and the R&B-tinged “Sweet Sugar Pie”). Backed by RZA's appropriately gritty, dissonant beats and appearances from the Clan, Return became an instant hit, selling over 1 million copies and earning a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album in 1996. The album stands as a high water mark in the Wu-Tang Clan's collective creative output and was selected as one of the Best 100 Rap Albums by The Source magazine in 1998. In honoring the legacy of one of hip-hop's most innovative releases, Get On Down is proud to present this incredible and unique special edition of Ol’ Dirty Bastard's Return to the 36 Chambers as a double LP which contains the complete original album, remastered for optimal sound quality.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A.
1 Intro
2 Shimmy Shimmy Ya
3 Baby C’mon
4 Brooklyn Zoo

SIDE B.
1 Hippa To Da Hoppa
2 Raw Hide
3 Damage
4 Don’t U Know

SIDE C.
1 The Stomp
2 Goin’ Down
3 Drunk Game (Sweet Sugar Pie)
4 Snakes

SIDE D.
1 Brooklyn Zoo II (Tiger Cane)
2 Proteck Ya Neck II The Zoo
3 Cuttin’ Headz

36

Dreamloops

Presenting the first vinyl release of Dreamloops, a collection of long-form tracks that form a stunning two-and-a-half-hour suite over four LPs. The box set has been created, mixed, and designed by Dennis Huddleston, who, as 36 (“three-six”), is among the most celebrated electronic musicians operating today. Praised for his ability to imbue songs with strong, relatable undercurrents, Huddleston achieves a new level of subconscious connection with Dreamloops.

First appearing in 2019 as a series of cassettes, Dreamloops was revisited by Huddleston in 2023 to bring newfound clarity, focus, and cohesion. There are eight pieces, each an 18:00 minute standalone self-contained work. In each song, time slows as an ensemble of sounds builds on themes and develops emotional power. Much like epic works such as The Sinking Of The Titanic by Gavin Bryars, LaMonte Young’s Well-Tuned Piano, Daughters Of Darkness by Natural Snow Buildings and Morton Feldman’s String Quartet II, each fragment of Dreamloops culls developing melodies towards hauntological steps forward. Sound spectrums don’t spread wide but instead focus on a precise musical statement, exploring its absolute potential. That said, Dreamloops does not exist in its own idealized sphere. Deep listening reveals tape hiss, oversaturation, wow and flutter, and similar imperfections. The fingerprints deepen part of these tracks’ emotional impact. Henryk Gorecki’s humanity meets Max Richter’s sense of grandeur meets Deathprod’s absolute sound mining, as Huddleston deftly maneuvers his songs toward momentous epic impact.

“Emotions get tied in our mind with specific sounds,” Huddleston says. “The whole point of creating music is to explore and discover those frequencies.” A simmering nostalgia is ever present. “There is a beauty in this sound…[where] you can truly glimpse into the soul of the composer.” —Headphone Commute “Warm, hugely emotive loop-based compositions, with particular emphasis on melody and atmosphere.” —The Rest Is Noise

TRACK LISTING

A1. Invisible Sunrise
B2. Coalescence Cascade
C3. Broken Chroma
D4. Know Your Shadow
E5. Trench Heart
F6. Dopesick Lament
G7. LVHT
H8. Last Wake Dreamout

Ol' Dirty Bastard

Return To The 36 Chambers - The Dirty Version - 2021 Repress

It's safe to say that hip-hop has never seen an album like Ol’ Dirty Bastard's 1995 solo debut 'Return to the 36 Chambers'. The brief glimpses of ODB's unhinged genius provided by Wu-Tang Clan's landmark Enter the Wu-Tang album two years earlier were begging to be expanded on to a larger canvas, and, with RZA guiding production, the album promised to give Dirty the creative license to make one of the most bizarre, entertaining and original LPs in hip-hop history. With his raspy, drunken flow and dark sense of humor, Dirty fearlessly attacks from all angles, throwing himself fearlessly into punchy rhyme attacks (“Damage,” with GZA), drugged-out party jams (the monster singles “Brooklyn Zoo” and “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”) and bizarre, grimly hilarious fantasies of sex and violence (“Don't U Know” and the R&B-tinged “Sweet Sugar Pie”). Backed by RZA's appropriately gritty, dissonant beats and appearances from the Clan, Return became an instant hit, selling over 1 million copies and earning a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album in 1996. The album stands as a high water mark in the Wu-Tang Clan's collective creative output and was selected as one of the Best 100 Rap Albums by The Source magazine in 1998.


TRACK LISTING

1. Intro
2. Shimmy Shimmy Ya
3. Baby C'mon
4. Brooklyn Zoo
5. Hippa To Da Hoppa
6. Raw Hide
7. Damage
8. Don't U Know
9. The Stomp
10. Goin' Down
11. Drunk Game (Sweet Sugar Pie)
12. Snakes
13. Brooklyn Zoo II (Tiger Crane)
14. Proteck Ya Neck II The Zoo
15. Cuttin' Headz

Wu-Tang Clan

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Coloured Vinyl Reissue

The classic debut from the Shaolin gang circa 1993 is one of the most important rap albums of all time, wrestling the initiative back from the West Coast gangsta crews and G-funk sound and taking hip hop to rawer, dirtier place altogether. The RZA's mix of kung fu movie samples and twisted soul loops gives a unique backing to the en masse duelling of Method Man, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Genius, Masta Killa et al. "Bring Back Da Ruckus" sets their stall out and things continue at a neck-breaking pace through the graceful "Can It All Be So Simple", the complexity of "Da Mystery Of Chessboxin'", threatening "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F' Wit", the scarily prescient "CREAM", Meth's evil signature theme, all the way through to "Protect Ya Neck" and "Tearz". Sheer brilliance.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Bring Da Ruckus
2. Shame On A Nigga
3. Clan In Da Front
4. Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber
5. Can It Be All So Simple/Intermission
6. Protect Ya Neck

Side B
1. Da Mystery Of Chessboxin'
2. Wu-Tang Clan Aint Nuthing Ta F' Wit
3. C.R.E.A.M.
4. Method Man
5. Tearz
6. Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber - Part II

Wu-Tang Clan

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

The classic debut from the Shaolin gang circa 1993 is one of the most important rap albums of all time, wrestling the initiative back from the West Coast gangsta crews and G-funk sound and taking hip hop to rawer, dirtier place altogether. The RZA's mix of kung fu movie samples and twisted soul loops gives a unique backing to the en masse duelling of Method Man, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Genius, Masta Killa et al. "Bring Back Da Ruckus" sets their stall out and things continue at a neck-breaking pace through the graceful "Can It All Be So Simple", the complexity of "Da Mystery Of Chessboxin'", threatening "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F' Wit", the scarily prescient "CREAM", Meth's evil signature theme, all the way through to "Protect Ya Neck" and "Tearz". Sheer brilliance.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Bring Da Ruckus
2. Shame On A Nigga
3. Clan In Da Front
4. Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber
5. Can It Be All So Simple/Intermission
6. Protect Ya Neck

Side B
1. Da Mystery Of Chessboxin'
2. Wu-Tang Clan Aint Nuthing Ta F' Wit
3. CREAM
4. Method Man
5. Tearz
6. Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber - Part II

Roses Kings Castles

One Born Every Minute

Adam Ficek is most commonly known to the general public for his day-job as drummer in notorious British rock act Babyshambles. As a member of the band fronted by Pete Doherty, the most talked- and written-about rock star of our time, Adam has seen the best and worst of life at the casualty-laden core of the music industry, but what many people don’t know is he is also a talented multi-instrumentalist who writes and performs beautifully crafted songs under the nom-de-plume of Roses Kings Castles. Originally conceived as a creative outlet whilst Babyshambles were on holiday, Roses Kings Castles became something more than a means of occupying himself during down time. 'I continually write, whether it's big band arrangements, electro riffs or folk-pop songs. I just needed an avenue to walk down'.

The Roses Kings Castles sound is lost somewhere between Belle & Sebastian’s pastoral warmth and the hallucinatory six-string invocations of Syd Barrett, and manages to blissfully combine astute acoustic pop melodies with the finest elements of classic British songwriting. Following the release of a 6 track limited edition cassette only release (!) in May 2009, Adam re-entered the studio and cut a number of tracks. The first fruits of his labour were released as the "Apples & Engines" EP, and a new album, "Suburban Time Bombs" was recorded in the months that followed.

TRACK LISTING

One Born Every Minute
Sit Down (Demo)


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