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MINIMOOD 017LP
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Repressed. Following on from Dimensional Space on Echospace (CV313 001CD, 313 004CD), dub techno legend CV313, aka Stephen Hitchell, offers up his second album, Glass City Sessions on Minimood, featuring five profoundly immersive tracks that come as a double vinyl release only. CV313's signature dub techno sound has been a blueprint for the genre and is created on vintage hardware; all sounds, static, tones, and paranormal occurrences are left in to render it as atmospheric as it is. The five expansive recordings that make up the album are actually based on live recordings from a DEMF after-show night back in 2000 in Detroit. "The music is a bit creepy and so was the experience of this live show," says Stephen Hitchell. "It was an old dingy warehouse about ten miles out of downtown Detroit, right next to the now abandoned Eloise asylum, but there are many stories of it still being haunted." Indeed, that theme of haunted locations around Detroit echoes through the five tracks and makes them a truly cinematic experience. Opening things up on the first record is the brilliantly dark "Belle Isle Symphonics", twelve frosty minutes of hunched-over drums and rattling metal sounds that place you in the center of a large abandoned building. "Masonic Mystic" is much sparser and more eerie, with watery chords and warm static suspending you in an unsettling calm atmosphere, but one that always feel like something strange is around the corner. On the second record the superb "Stars Above Elmwood" lifts the shadowy mood somewhat with more airy dub techno drums and pensive chords rippling out in all directions. It's warm, expansive, and utterly absorbing for more than 13 minutes. "Two Way Inn" continues the trip in fine style with gentle chords and barely there drums, comforting white noise and distant pads all sinking you into a state of meditation before the masterful "Eloise's Theme" arrives, an ambient-ish masterpiece with horizontal chords gently moving up-and-down the scales to trap you in a soothing state, but always with an undercurrent of foreboding. This new album by CV313 is deep, storytelling dub techno of the highest order. Comes on splatter vinyl.
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CV313 001CD
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Echospace have spent years going through the analog tapes from the archives of cv313, aka Rod Modell and Stephen Hitchell. Here they present the long sold out LP edition of Dimensional Space from cv313, finally available on CD. Echospace pay tribute to the brilliant artwork from Lindsay Todd at Firecracker and House Of Traps and the superbly mastered recordings from Bazza at Alchemy Mastering, London. This edition features selected content from the LP set and unreleased versions of "Isis" and a killer new cut from the Beyond The Clouds sessions titled "Beyond Dreams". This edition also features two unreleased cuts which were scheduled to come out on the LP edition of the album but were omitted due to budgetary concerns, never to be heard - until now. This might be the soundtrack to the other side of the galaxy, a place where space meets bass.
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313 005CD
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Echospace return to their "Altering Illusions" project and deliver a massive double CD edition released in three separate issues, part 1 closely focused on the work of cv313. Expect sub-harmonic deep space exploration in some seriously out-there electronic quadrants, some of the deepest techno reductions ever captured to tape. A sprawling nebula of etheric sounds made by the illusive cv313 project, exploring re-mastered versions of their most celebrated classics ("Dimensional," "Sailing Stars," "Seconds to Forever," "Beyond the Clouds") to exclusive new, unreleased material. Over two discs, you'll be treated to over 2.5 hours of purified groove reductions made on vintage analog equipment, teasing out the infidelities of archaic equipment which render the sound at its most diffuse and opiated. Lush listening from the magical cv313 project, one of Detroit's finest.
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313 004CD
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"There's been a world of hurt in regard to this album, the original masters recorded from 1996-2010 were submerged underwater due to the flood in our home studio where boxes of old reels were never to be recovered again. Finally, years of restructure on live recordings and painstaking undulation in the restoration process have lead us to finally accomplish what so many expected wouldn't happen: an awakening of sagacious spirit. With that being said, it's our distinct honor to present the sonic world of Dimensional Space -- the highly-anticipated debut album from cv313. This album has taken a cosmic eclipse where two events collide for unison. The culmination of this project led to synergy, creative experience re-invented and re-imagined -- the flow of an astral vortex." --Echospace; The second CD includes mixes of track "Subtraktive" from artists such as The Sight Below, Reference, Deepchord Presents: Echospace, King Midas Sound, Instrusion, and Bvdub.
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LIVE 002CD
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Full album release which features an epic live set from cv313, culled from a performance at Primary in Chicago, USA. Featuring unreleased tracks, versions of classics & plenty of unreleased cv313 content. The "live" element is more present here than in past live performances, recorded utilizing a myriad of analog circuitry filled with lo-fi warmth and sonic soul; the trademark of echospace. Highly Recommended!
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LIVE 003CD
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Full album release which features live excursions from cv313, culled from a performance at the 2001 Detroit Electronic Music Festival. Previously unreleased "live" extracts from cv313's performance at the Glass City Record Store release party in Detroit, USA. Recorded from a 16-channel Mackie mixer, performed entirely on analog/digital hardware, samplers and sequencers. NO COMPUTER INVOLVED. Recorded in May 2001 @ a warehouse somewhere in Detroit.
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ECHOSPACE 013EP
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Last remaining 12" from the cv313 series. Masterfully produced euphoric excursions rooted in deep, dubby atmospheres.
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