WRWTFWW Records drop the first-ever vinyl release of Japanese electronic music producer Virgo's unheralded sophomore album, "Remnants", a sleeper underground hit from 1999, now finally available as a limited edition 45rpm cut double LP housed in a heavyweight sleeve.
Released only on CD in 1999 by Tokyo-based cult label FORM@ RECORDS, "Remnants" is a quietly visionary record: mellow ambient techno, fluid electronica, and soul-laced atmospherics with the spirit of Detroit close to the heart. As the follow-up to his essential debut Landform Code, Virgo expands his palette here - working in widescreen textures, warm synth tones, and patient, emotive arrangements that feel both intimate and cinematic. The result is lush, heartfelt, and simply brilliant - a late '90s statement that rewards deep, repeated listening.
"Remnants" sits comfortably alongside the era's best explorations in soulful techno, ambient, and IDM, recalling the sensibilities of B12, The Black Dog, Ian O'Brien, and the lineage of labels Warp, Likemind and Clear, while remaining distinctly Virgo - subtle, sophisticated, and unexpectedly moving.
The album is released alongside Virgo's "Landform Code", also available on vinyl for the first time ever, as part of a collaborative reissue series between WRWTFWW and FORM@. It aslo signals more archival treasures to come : vinyl pressings of FORM@ compilations "Art Form I" (1997), "Art Form 2" (1998), and "Re-Form Ver-1.0" (1999).
For fans of techno, house, ambient, IDM, acid, synth, Detroit, soulful electronic music, emotive electronica, Carl Craig, B12, the Black Dog, labels such as Warp, Likemind, and Clear, late 90s feels, machines with emotions.
Released only on CD in 1999 by Tokyo-based cult label FORM@ RECORDS, "Remnants" is a quietly visionary record: mellow ambient techno, fluid electronica, and soul-laced atmospherics with the spirit of Detroit close to the heart. As the follow-up to his essential debut Landform Code, Virgo expands his palette here - working in widescreen textures, warm synth tones, and patient, emotive arrangements that feel both intimate and cinematic. The result is lush, heartfelt, and simply brilliant - a late '90s statement that rewards deep, repeated listening.
"Remnants" sits comfortably alongside the era's best explorations in soulful techno, ambient, and IDM, recalling the sensibilities of B12, The Black Dog, Ian O'Brien, and the lineage of labels Warp, Likemind and Clear, while remaining distinctly Virgo - subtle, sophisticated, and unexpectedly moving.
The album is released alongside Virgo's "Landform Code", also available on vinyl for the first time ever, as part of a collaborative reissue series between WRWTFWW and FORM@. It aslo signals more archival treasures to come : vinyl pressings of FORM@ compilations "Art Form I" (1997), "Art Form 2" (1998), and "Re-Form Ver-1.0" (1999).
For fans of techno, house, ambient, IDM, acid, synth, Detroit, soulful electronic music, emotive electronica, Carl Craig, B12, the Black Dog, labels such as Warp, Likemind, and Clear, late 90s feels, machines with emotions.
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: The second vinyl reissue of a previously CD only release from Yasutaka Sato. Released in 1999 to a quiet but cult fanfare. I really like discogs user ubikman who said 'the spatial drift of Detroit techno soul glimpsed through shimmering curtains of zen-like ping and post-Blade Runner tableau. Like the first Virgo, an unheralded classic'.TRACK LISTING
A1. Falling Seed
A2. Round On Cirque
B1. Utia
B2. Prelude
B3. Mesa
C1. Tower Of The Dual World
C2. Lost In Blue
C3. Ivied Scupltuer
D1. Remnants
D2. Starlight
