Sandwell District – Fabric 69

Label: Fabric
Catalog#: FABRIC137
Release date: 22-04-2013
Source: WEB, Dj Mix
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 256 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno

Tracklist:
01 Silent Servant – A Path Eternal [Hospital Productions]
02 Function – Voiceprint (Loop/Edit) [Ostgut Ton]
03 VCMG – Spock (Regis Remix) (Loop/Edit) [Mute]
04 Boyd Rice / Frank Tovey – Extraction 7 [Mute]
05 Raime – Exist In The Repeat Of Practice [Blackest Ever Black]
06 Ike Yard – Loss (Regis Version) [Blackest Ever Black / Desire]
07 Vatican Shadow – Church Of All Images (Regis Version) [Blackest Ever Black]
08 Fiedel – Andreas (Bonus Beats) [Fiedelone]
09 Cub – CU2 (UST Funk Mix) [Cub]
10 Mary Velo – Detune [Frozen Border]
11 JPLS – Basis [Minus]
12 Rrose – Wedge [Eaux]
13 Ø – Syväys [Sähkö]
14 Rrose – Wedge [Eaux]
15 Function – Modifier [Ostgut Ton]
16 Carl Craig – Darkness [Planet E]
17 Markus Suckut – Hunt [Figure SPC]
18 Samuel Kerridge – Waiting For Love Part 1 [Downwards]
19 Untold – Motion The Dance [Hemlock]
20 Surgeon – As You Breathe Here Now [Semantica]
21 Mark Ernestus – Mark Ernestus Meets BBC [Honest Jon’s]
22 Plastikman – Plasticine [Plus 8]
23 Trevino – Uptight [Klockworks]
24 VCMG – Spock (Regis Remix) [Mute]
25 Planetary Assault Systems – Flat Tire [Mote-Evolver]
26 Factory Floor – 16-2-16-9-20-1-14-9-7 [Blast First Petite]
27 James Ruskin – Into A Circle [Jealous God Music]
28 SS/S – Sicario de Dios: Siglo 2 [Jealous God Music]
29 Laurent Garnier – At Night [F Communications]
30 Function – Voiceprint (Reprise) [Ostgut Ton]

The opening three tracks serve as an introduction to the dissolved identities of the triumvirate behind the Sandwell shroud as their originals and edits layer over in an eerie aural collage of shuddering ambiance and brittle percussion. The mix slowly ramps up track by track as we’re guided through the experimental noise of Boyd Rice back-to-back with Raime then snapped into the skittering percussion and post-punk mumbles of Regis’ edit of Ike Yard’s “Loss.” Mary Velo’s “Detune” ups the ante as swathes of sinister beats and decimated stabs rattle around JPLS’s “Basis” before lunging slowly into “Wedge” by Rrose which cloaks “Syväys” by Ø. Function’s “Modifier,” takes us down the rabbit hole once more before the malevolent, swirling euphoria of Carl Craig’s “Darkness” washes over it and on into Markus Suckut’s cavernous “Hunt.”

The sludgy atmospherics of Samuel Kerridge’s “Waiting For Love Part 1” bleed into Untold’s “Motion the Dance” before the unsettling noise-fuelled dissonance of Surgeon’s “As You Breathe Here Now” pulls back into Hardwax boss/ Basic Channel legend, Mark Ernestus’ “Mark Ernestus Meets BBC.” Plastikman’s Plasticine provides an early-morning acid injection before going for the jugular on the murky bass throb of Trevino’s “Uptight” and back into Regis’ VCMG remix from the very start of the mix. The final furlong of the mix draws in Factory Floor, James Ruskin, SS/S, Laurent Garnier before circumnavigating its way back to Function’s “Voiceprint” – an atmospheric coda which echoes the opening sequence, providing a refined symmetry to the whole ordeal.

With this mix, another genuine artefact has been added to the Sandwell legacy, a document of their skewed presence and existence, a treasure guaranteeing the kind of quality that electronic music compilations rarely achieve. In 1 hour 15 minutes, the pairing of Regis and Function succeed in presenting and executing some of the most potent flourishes in the Sandwell catalogue, distilling them into a coherent body of work that masterfully defines the current techno zeitgeist. Few contemporary producers have bettered the merciless techno blueprint laid down by this collective, and few ever will.