Feed Forward Box Sandwell District SKU: PODR009LP Barcode: 5400863098414 68.00 £68.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Point Of Departure Released Date: 28th July 2023 Buying Format: 3LP Box Set Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Sandwell District announce a brand new release of their era-defining 2010 album, ‘Feed Forward’, out on vinyl for the first time since its original pressing, and digitally for the first time, via The Point Of Departure Recording Company. The original print of the album, described by RA a decade later as “the final transmission from a collective whose influence still colours music today,” was effectively a private press that sold out on impact – three days before Christmas, with no accompanying promotion – and, despite it changing hands for up to four figure sums, it has never been repressed. Sandwell District – Peter Sutton (Female), David Sumner (Function), Juan Mendez (Silent Servant) and Karl O’Connor (Regis) – was a label, a collective, an impulse, an in-joke, a suicide mission, a gang, a point of view. An amphetamine-fuelled fever dream, a group psychosis, an out-of-hand piss-take which happened to reinvent techno in its own bleakly modernist image. Growing out of the Downwards label that Sutton and O’Connor established in 1993, throughout the 2000s the collective had a powerful mystique. Its records sell and its reputation swells by word of mouth alone – and for a long time it revels in being faceless, opaque, impenetrable. After a move to Berlin, Sutton and O’Connor intensify their time in the studio, while Function is a resident and Regis and Silent Servant become regular guests at Berghain, giving the collective a key test-laboratory. Mendez meanwhile overhauls the visual identity of the label, giving Sandwell an outlaw style all its own – techno has never seen anything quite like it – and the music itself deepens and darkens as if to meet the challenge. No previous Sandwell release can prepare you for ‘Feed Forward’’s technical and emotional achievement. It is supple, sensuous and utterly widescreen. Driving, infinite- horizon techno – vectors of pure energy – slashed with concussive polyrhythms and draped in swooping strings and a haunted, melancholic musicality only glimpsed on the preceding 12”s, if it was there at all. Above all it is a powerful concentration of atmosphere, its morbid romanticism drawing subtly on influences from post-punk, industrial and the early 1980s avant garde and culminating in a breathtaking final third of eerie concrète and beatific synth sequences. ‘Feed Forward’ is one of the great, elegiac evocations of Berlin, minting the future but grieving and ghost-filled; the offspring of Bowie’s ‘Low’ and Basic Channel. Sandwell District continued for another year after the album’s release, before disbanding. Today that world, that vertiginous sense of emptiness and possibility, feels entirely vanished, irretrievable. An imaginary world that only ‘Feed Forward’ can give us access to. Its influence in the 2010s and beyond has been colossal, if not always duly credited; those reverberations are still being felt. Three 140g black vinyl LPs in rigid slipcase – 2mm grey board with black lining and anti- scratch matt lamination – with 16-page stapled booklet on 150gsm matt art paper. “Techno at its most stunning, a glistening, artful collection of tracks with an appeal that went far beyond the dance floors it soundtracked.” – Resident Advisor, Albums Of The Decade “Few have melded the textures of the past with the mood of now with such brutal, immersive efficiency” – The Quietus, Albums Of The Year “A defiant techno statement that feels as utterly singular and unconcerned with trends as it is undeniably contemporary and relevant.” – FACT “Solidifies a Sandwell aesthetic that synthesises and subverts a number of fashions in Techno.” – The Wire Artist Sandwell District Genre Electronica Label Point Of Departure Buying Options 3LP Box Set Format 3LP , Box Set Condition New Country UK Track Listings LP1 Immolare (First) Immolare (Main) Immolare (Final) Grey Cut Out Hunting Lodge LP2 Falling The Same Way Svar Double Day Speed + Sound (Endless) LP3 7" Untitled (1) 7" Untitled (2) Surrender to the Unknown Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Electronica View Product Quick View Roisin Murphy Róisín Machine (Limited Splatter Vinyl) Electronica | Skint | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 16th October 2021 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Roisin Murphy Róisín Machine (Limited Splatter Vinyl) £26.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Skint SKU: 4050538696288 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 16th October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Actress AZD (Indies Only) Electronica | Ninja Tune | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 10th April 2017 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Actress AZD (Indies Only) £26.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN241X Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 10th April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Autechre NTS Session 2 Electronica | Warp | 3LP, Includes Download Code Released 24th August 2018 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Autechre NTS Session 2 £32.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: WARPLP364-2 Formats: 3LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 24th August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jean Michel Jarre Equinoxe Infinity Electronica | RCA | 1LP Released 16th November 2018 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jean Michel Jarre Equinoxe Infinity £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: RCA SKU: 19075876451 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th November 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ubiquitous Meh! 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