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).