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Brand: Arca

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

PAN100LP

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Colour

black

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Etched B-Side

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-09-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0720524679321

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Arca

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Reissue of the 2010 mixtape. For anyone who can remember, Arca’s &amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp; was a moment. Its 25-minute stretch of coiling, contorted grime and glitch; dub and hip hop dropped with the buzz of an impending co-production credit on Kanye West’s Yeezus in 2013. It included cuts of sound and beats that were too weird for that pop project, while becoming a piece of experimental art that what would come to define what is by now broadly known as a ‘post-club’ sound. It’s music that is as visceral as it is experimental; made as much for the mind, as it is for the body.

Released with no warning seven years ago, &amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp; became a bridge between Alejandra Ghersi’s time partying and collaborating with her queer peers, while still living in New York to the next stage of her career releasing on Mute in London. She’d go from making beats for rapper Mykki Blanco and fashion label Hood By Air, posting lurching bass reworkings of pop hits on YouTube, and producing her first fluid mixtapes with DIS Magazine, to finishing off this seminal mixtape on the synths in Daniel Miller’s studio.

After dropping three impressive EPs the year before, &amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp; marked a transition. Continuations and extrapolations of material from Stretch 1 and Stretch 2 appeared in the mangled RnB sampling of Century and Arca’s signature vocal layering in the pitched flow of Waste. Along with the fluttering, muted heartbeat of Obelisk, and the lumbering piano chords of Mother, fourteen sonic sketches were elegantly woven together into a single, downloadable whole. As Alejandra’s course turned toward moving to Europe from the United States, &amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp; became a remarkable challenge to the form of the mixtape, which was a relatively new trend taking hold of the online-oriented underground at the turn of the 2010s. But where many, if not most mixtapes where treated simply as a showcase of individual tracks presaging a more ‘official’ release to come, &amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp; was a complete piece in its own right. “I wanted to make something that was my best work,” Alejandra says about a record that has stood the test of time, “I listen to it very fondly today.

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Music GB