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The Sabres Of Paradise
Haunted Dancehall (数量限定/日本語帯付き/解説書付き)
Warp Records / Beat Records
- Cat No.: WARPLP26RBR
- 2025-09-18
The second album from The Sabres of Paradise, released on Warp Records in 1994. Having evolved from a production trio into a full band, they delivered "Haunted Dancehall," a masterpiece and techno's first concept album, expanding techno's cutting edge with the varied rhythms of breakbeat, electro and reggae, plus experimental music and dub sonics. Long out of print on both vinyl and CD since its original release, it now returns as a 2LP reissue, remastered from the original tapes by Matt Colton! Includes C1 "Theme," appearing here for the first time. A miraculous record etched into music history that changed the lives of music freaks the world over. With Japanese obi strip / liner notes / limited edition.
Track List

Amid post-rave UK DJ culture, Andrew Weatherall's creativity fused gothic dark industrial, John Carpenter film scores and a post-punk worldview with sampling and live playing, uniquely blending pre-trip-hop atmospherics, techno, dub, breakbeat and electro into something like a film soundtrack. The Sabres of Paradise's second album is a one-of-a-kin ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)d masterpiece whose influence transcends its era.
Featuring that unforgettable exotic phrase lifted from a track by 1930s Trinidad and Tobago calypso artist Wilmoth Houdini, the bizarre breakbeat calypso dubwise masterpiece and worldwide smash B3 "Wilmot" (sample1); the seriously deep leftfield dubwise breakbeat with a jazzy bassline, A3 "Duke Of Earlsfield" (sample2); the thrilling, spy-movie slow-mo breakbeat dubwise C1 "Theme" (sample3), included here for the first time; and the effect-laden obscure electro cut C4 "Ballad Of Nicky McGuire" (sample2), also killer. 14 tracks in all, stoic, dark, solid and imaginary. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)