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WRWTFWW 122LP
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WRWTFWW Records presents The Gentle People's Soundtracks for Living (Expanded Edition), the ultimate lounge/chill out classic from 1997, reborn! Available as a limited-edition white vinyl 3LP in heavyweight 3-panel gatefold sleeve. When The Gentle People first glided into the mid-'90s on clouds of strings, sugar and sine waves, they sounded like visitors from another, more glamorous planet. Signed to Richard D. James and Grant Wilson-Claridge's cult label Rephlex, this multinational "E-Z-Core" lounge unit took the aesthetics of '50s/'60s easy listening and exotica and gently smuggled them into 1990s club culture. Soundtracks for Living was their defining statement: an album that "takes the lounge scene and runs away with it entirely -- blissful and heavenly," as one contemporary review put it. The Gentle People -- Dougee Dimensional, Laurie LeMans, Valentine Carnelian and Honeymink -- began in early-'90s Brixton, throwing dress-up theme parties before taking their audio-visual universe into the studio. For them, music was "a way of life": soothing to the ear, rich in pop hooks, and pitched somewhere between the playfully idiotic and the hyper-intelligent. This expanded edition of Soundtracks for Living finally gives this glambient lounge-pop milestone the treatment it has always deserved. Spread lovingly across 3LP, it features new mastering from the original sources, allowing every harp glissando, string swell and analog squiggle to float in high-fidelity widescreen. The core album is complemented by a bonus 12" of unreleased and rare material, offering a deeper dive into the Gentle world: alternate takes, lost interludes, and secret soundtrack cues for lives not yet lived. Crucially, "Journey" appears here in its original version, "Gentle Instrumental" and the cult Aphex Twin remix, reuniting band and labelmate in one place and underlining the quietly radical nature of the project: this was lounge music that could sit next to braindance, acid and IDM and still steal the scene. Pressed on limited edition white vinyl, Soundtrack for Living (Expanded Edition) invites long-time fans and new listeners alike to step back into The Gentle People's universe -- a place of fondue parties, bubble chairs, star-lit elevators and endlessly rewinding sunsets, where "the pathway to the stars" is never quite out of reach.
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WRWTFWW 123EP
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WRWTFWW Records releases The Gentle People The Peel Sessions, available on vinyl for the first time ever, in conjunction with the worldwide expanded reissue of the group's Soundtracks for Living. This is an exclusive four-song EP recorded in 1997 on BBC's Peel Sessions, as The Gentle People were doing the rounds for the release of their legendary debut album. These live versions have never seen the light of day before -- a must have for all the gentle fans!
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TFCK 87620
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Japanese version with a bonus track not found on the now-deleted Rephlex version. "The Gentle People's eagerly awaited second LP is a celebration of the glossy side of life and will take hep sophisticats around the globe into new dimensions of grooviness. Complementing their first three EPs and debut LP, Simply Faboo is filled with even more lush, dreamy vocals and strings as well as quirky electro, techno bubblegum and groovy disco beats. The Gentle People have been busy remixing tracks for Japan's Pizzicato 5 and Towa Tei, have been guesting on releases by the Fantastic Plastic Machine and have had their work remixed by the likes of Aphex Twin and Luke Vibert." Limited stock on hand.
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