Routine is a collection of thirteen previously unheard tracks recorded between 1996-97.
These tracks are drawn from the daily working practice adopted by Ultramarine at their studio of the time on Coronet Street, behind London's Hoxton Square.
Often the result of a single day's work, these pieces find the duo developing their palette, experimenting with sounds, treatments and techniques. Recorded as live mixes straight to tape, the results have the immediacy of new ideas freshly captured.
All tracks recorded direct to DAT at Survey, London, 1996-1997.
Mastered from the original tapes by Jason Goz, Transition Mastering Studios, London, 2024.
Sleeve artwork by Guillaume de Ubéda.
Routine is available to pre-order via Bandcamp and will be in record stores worldwide (distributed by Kudos).
These tracks are drawn from the daily working practice adopted by Ultramarine at their studio of the time on Coronet Street, behind London's Hoxton Square.
Often the result of a single day's work, these pieces find the duo developing their palette, experimenting with sounds, treatments and techniques. Recorded as live mixes straight to tape, the results have the immediacy of new ideas freshly captured.
All tracks recorded direct to DAT at Survey, London, 1996-1997.
Mastered from the original tapes by Jason Goz, Transition Mastering Studios, London, 2024.
Sleeve artwork by Guillaume de Ubéda.
Routine is available to pre-order via Bandcamp and will be in record stores worldwide (distributed by Kudos).
Ultramarine’s fifth album A User’s Guide was originally released on the New Electronica label in 1998.
Now reissued on the great Swiss imprint WRWTFWW. Remastered from the original DAT tapes by Jason Goz at Transition Mastering, pressed on black double-vinyl. Includes new sleeve notes by dance music historian Matt Anniss.
On the rare occasions that Ultramarine’s story is told, the duo’s fifth album, 1998’s A User’s Guide, tends to get omitted from the narrative. Radically different to anything the duo released before or since, it has remained a slept-on, timeless and inherently futurist classic ever since.
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Photo: John Holden
A User’s Guide is available via Bandcamp and in record stores worldwide (distributed by Word And Sound).
Now reissued on the great Swiss imprint WRWTFWW. Remastered from the original DAT tapes by Jason Goz at Transition Mastering, pressed on black double-vinyl. Includes new sleeve notes by dance music historian Matt Anniss.
On the rare occasions that Ultramarine’s story is told, the duo’s fifth album, 1998’s A User’s Guide, tends to get omitted from the narrative. Radically different to anything the duo released before or since, it has remained a slept-on, timeless and inherently futurist classic ever since.
Photo: John Holden
A User’s Guide is available via Bandcamp and in record stores worldwide (distributed by Word And Sound).
Send and Return is the result of a live session recorded on board a Thames sailing barge on the Blackwater estuary in Essex on the east coast of England. The album is a continuation of Blackwaterside, a project influenced by and in celebration of the Blackwater.
Ultramarine were joined for the session by Greg Heath (soprano sax & alto flute) and Ric Elsworth (vibraphone & percussion).
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Photos: Ian Cooper
Send and Return is available via Bandcamp and in record stores (distributed by Kudos).
Ultramarine were joined for the session by Greg Heath (soprano sax & alto flute) and Ric Elsworth (vibraphone & percussion).
Photos: Ian Cooper
Send and Return is available via Bandcamp and in record stores (distributed by Kudos).
Ultramarine & Anna Domino meet again for a reworking of their collaborative track $10 Heel.
The song originally appeared on the Ultramarine album Signals Into Space (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2019). $10 Rework replaces the urgent, jittery rhythm of the original with a straighter House backbone and then proceeds to disassemble the structure with a pair of freestyle, hands-on-the-desk, on-the-fly dub mixes.
Anna Domino's stream-of-consciousness lyrics tell the impressionistic tale of post-club after-hours chaos in Times Square, NYC circa 1979. Anna raps off studio equipment brand names like passing neon signs glimpsed in a blur through a taxi cab window.
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Anna Domino, 1979
Sleeve artwork by Neasden Control Centre.
$10 Rework is available via Bandcamp and in record stores (distributed by Word And Sound).
The song originally appeared on the Ultramarine album Signals Into Space (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2019). $10 Rework replaces the urgent, jittery rhythm of the original with a straighter House backbone and then proceeds to disassemble the structure with a pair of freestyle, hands-on-the-desk, on-the-fly dub mixes.
Anna Domino's stream-of-consciousness lyrics tell the impressionistic tale of post-club after-hours chaos in Times Square, NYC circa 1979. Anna raps off studio equipment brand names like passing neon signs glimpsed in a blur through a taxi cab window.
Anna Domino, 1979Sleeve artwork by Neasden Control Centre.
$10 Rework is available via Bandcamp and in record stores (distributed by Word And Sound).
Interiors
5-track 12” EP/download
Blackford Hill, released 5th November 2021
Purchase here via Bandcamp.
Previously unreleased tracks & versions by Ultramarine with contributions from Laurie Lowe (drums) & Greg Heath (soprano sax). Originally recorded in 2011, this set was rediscovered during the domestic lockdown of April 2020 and initially made available as a pay-what-you-like download. Later reissued on vinyl by Blackford Hill.
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Sleeve artwork by Katherine Jones.
Interiors is available via Bandcamp.
A short film from the studio of printmaker Katherine Jones as she editions Clear Surface, the collograph and block print that features on the sleeve of Interiors.
[Music: Even When, from Interiors]
Sleeve artwork by Katherine Jones.
Interiors is available via Bandcamp.
A short film from the studio of printmaker Katherine Jones as she editions Clear Surface, the collograph and block print that features on the sleeve of Interiors.
[Music: Even When, from Interiors]