MLO – 01 Hour 01 Minute 01 Second
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Label: i.t.p. recordings – ITPAL 001
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album, Limited Edition, White Label
Country: UK
Released: 1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: Trance, Techno, Downtempo, Ambient
One hour, one minute and one second of lush ambient techno dream-scaping cut from the golden-era of UK electronic music.
Despite being active for only two years, the short-lived London label i.t.p recordings left a revered dent in the canon of halcyon-days UK techno that far outweighs its output. Quality not quantity. This 1994 2LP from British duo MLO captures the true essence of this explosion of creativity in the early / mid 90’s better than any. It’s trapped in the buffer-zone between sweat-drenched open-ended dancefloors and the altogether more cosmic and mind-expanding ambient backrooms of days gone by. Softly lapping arpeggios, lavish sweeping pads and glacial percussion occasionally swelling the receding whilst basslines gather steady momentum to form a trance-inducing 4/4 pulse. It’s a sound many have tried to emulate, but really nothing comes close to the horizontal luna-rovering spread across the two discs here. Warp’s seminal Artificial Intelligence series may take all the props for creating this world, but elsewhere there were purple-lid backrooms across the country where something weirder was happening. One of the very best for a scene that will perpetually keep giving. (NM/NM - brown bag sleeve).
Tracklist
A1 Dreamlab 9:52
A2 Blowpipe 4:38
B1 Samarkand 6:07
B2 Two Voyages 4:17
B3 One Beat Too Many 6:30
C1 Out Of The Blue 5:15
C2 Long And Winding 6:39
C3 Shooter 5:20
D1 Aqua 6:32
D2 Birds And Flutes 5:49