Name: Melodies Record Club #002: Ben UFO Selects
Brand: Laurie Spiegel / Olof Dreijer

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MRC2

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black

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Extended format

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Format detail

With Folded A2 Insert. Remastered and Cut at Half Speed

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-01

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Signed copies: No

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UPC / Barcode

5053760065906

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1 / 12" / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Laurie Spiegel / Olof Dreijer

Genre GB

Electronic

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Melodies International

The second installment of of DJ and Artist curated 12” mini compilations: Melodies Record Club. Ben UFO is up next for volume two. Here are two tracks which have been staples in Ben’s DJ sets at different times, but neither were originally produced with a club setting in mind, which is why they’ve never been available in this format before. On one side, Drums from Laurie Spiegel’s 1980 experimental electronics album The Expanding Universe, a collection of tracks produced between 1974 and 1976 using a computer playing the actual sounds by controlling analog synthesis equipment under control of the Groove hybrid system developed by Max Matthews and F.R. Moore at Bell Labs. Drums is a percussive seven minute computer generated workout inspired by Laurie’s interest in African and Indian musics, and which brings to mind the most far out kosmiche music of the period to modern day techno. A connection Ben has tried to make explicit by including it in his first BBC essential mix back in 2013. On the flip a track by Olof Dreijer from the Swedish band the Knife who’s work you might also be familiar with under the moniker Oni Ayhun. Back in 2009 his artist friend Adnan Yildiz curated an exhibition called “There is No Audience” in Montethermoso, dedicated to public imagination. Adnan commissioned a single piece from Olof called “Echoes from Mamori”, that played on loop during the exhibition and was subsequently released only on CD. A contemporary piece more clearly indebted to house music, Olof built the track around arpeggios generated using sounds of frogs he recorded in the Amazon and birds around Berlin, fed into a sampler.

Melodies Record Club #002: Ben UFO Selects

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