• 12inch


Dencity Remixes

  • Cat No: ST 022
  • 2022-01-05

Format

12inch ---- JPY

アーリー90sのベルギー産アンビエントテクノTRANS-4M。2019年に再発した92年のアルバムに続いてデビューシングル「Dencity」の再発+レアテイクを収録した12インチをSAFE-TRIPが再発。

デトロイトテクノやBLEEPの流れを受けたベルギーの名門〈BUZZ〉からのデビューEP、TRANS-4M「Dencity」の12インチ再発。A-SIDEは当時のデビューEPに収録された2 バージョンで、A1の「Dencity (Urban Tribe Mix)」。マシーンパーカッション、ハウスビート、ダビー、コズミックな素晴らしいミックスで時代を超えて愛されるべきマスターピースです。MOVE YOUR BODY的なフレーズも垣間見れるレイヴィーなCLUB MIX、アルバムバージョンの別テイクというアンビエント・ハウス的なミックス、 Sueño Latinoの影響を伺わせるような未発表の「Butterflies」も素晴らしい。 (サイトウ)

Back in 2019, Safe Trip delivered a much-needed reissue of Trans-4m’s previously overlooked 1992 debut album, Sublunar Oracles, an ambient house and ambient techno masterpiece from Belgian brothers Stefan and Dimitri Van Elsen. Now the label has dived into their archives again to present an expanded edition of their sought-after 12” single Dencity, complete with a previously unheard cut.

While the original album version of ‘Dencity’ was a meandering journey through spacey ambient house full of ultra-dreamy ambient textures twinkling melodies and languid deep house grooves, the alternative takes originally featured on the 1992 12” were far more club-focused and dancefloor-ready.

This new edition boasts both of those gloriously kaleidoscopic and tactile revisions in freshly remastered form. There’s the EP opening ‘Urban Tribe Mix’, a bolder and heavier take featuring crunchier, weightier drums, gently psychedelic electronics and New Jersey garage style organ stabs, and the ‘Club Mix’, where saucer-eyed chords, echoing bleeps and energetic piano riffs help drive the track forwards.

Over on side B there’s a chance to check an alternative version of the Sublunar Oracles album version, as well as previously unreleased track ‘Butterflies’. Recorded during the same period as the album at the Van Elsen brothers’ home studio in Antwerp, it’s a starry, slowly unfurling ambient delight in which waves of attractive, undulating synthesizer sounds, yearning chords and deep space electronics dance away atop a shuffling, soft-touch drum machine beat. While it may have been shelved way back in 1992, it’s every bit as immersive and tactile as anything on Sublunar Oracles.

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