A User’s Guide
2xLP/download
WRWTFWW Records, released on 6th December 2024
Purchase here via Bandcamp
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 with a heavyweight sleeve. 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 for pre-order via Bandcamp and will be in record stores (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 with a heavyweight sleeve. 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 for pre-order via Bandcamp and will be in record stores (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.
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).
Folk (30th anniversary edition)
LP/download
Foam On A Wave, released 13th November 2020
Purchase here via Bandcamp
Originally released by Les Disques du Crépuscule in 1990 our debut album ‘Folk’ has been remastered and lovingly reissued by Foam On A Wave.
Vinyl & digital available now via Bandcamp.
“...decades ahead of its time... a classic that deserves to be rediscovered” [Electronic Sound magazine]
Meditations is two long-form ambient pieces performed with a reduced palette of kalimba, treated guitar, wavetable & analogue synths and hardware effects.
Conceived as a companion to Ultramarine’s seventh album Signals Into Space (2019), Meditations was originally released by Les Disques du Crépuscule as a limited edition CD.
Meditiations is released by Real Soon for the first time on vinyl. It was recorded with Andy Ramsay (Stereolab) and mastered by Jason Goz (Transition Mastering), with artwork by Heretic/Spectral Nation.
Meditations is available with a download via Bandcamp or in record stores (distributed by Honest Jon’s Records).
Conceived as a companion to Ultramarine’s seventh album Signals Into Space (2019), Meditations was originally released by Les Disques du Crépuscule as a limited edition CD.
Meditiations is released by Real Soon for the first time on vinyl. It was recorded with Andy Ramsay (Stereolab) and mastered by Jason Goz (Transition Mastering), with artwork by Heretic/Spectral Nation.
Meditations is available with a download via Bandcamp or in record stores (distributed by Honest Jon’s Records).