Warp Records

Tranquilizer isn’t the sound of sedation but resurfacing. Daniel Lopatin isn’t condemning our need for escape, but exploring what happens after. The record maps a movement from weightless calm into something more grounded, the necessary cycle of withdrawal and return that keeps us sane in a world both overwhelming and mundane. We plummet from the watery bliss of “Lifeworld” into the mournful melancholy of “Cherry Blue” and spastic grooves of “Rodl Glide.” As always with OPN, the real collides with the unreal. Listen closely and you will hear the scrape of fingers on a fretboard, a stone sliding across a dungeon floor, the squeak of a door opening. His music has never been an abstract color field; it has weight, edges, shadows. Tranquilizer feels like falling out of a dream you can still touch.

Broadcast: Distant Call - Collected Demos [CD]

An inspired coming together of musical minds. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of In A Space Outta Sound, George Evelyn aka DJ E.A.S.E has handed over the tapes to dub maestro Adrian Sherwood to go on a heady version excursion with eight tracks from the original record, in the spirit of the reggae and sound system roots that informed the original album. The result is a fresh take on a much-loved classic, in the lineage of albums such as Massive Attack's No Protection and Spoon's Lucifer On The Moon. Features bold new re-works of iconic tracks such as "You Wish" (appearing here as "You Bliss") and "Flip Ya Lid" (mutated into "Flippin Eck"). As well as his trademark mixing desk wizardry, Sherwood has also brought in some of the core On-U Sound players to add additional instrumentation and turn this collaboration into something which is much more than the sum of its parts.

Sinephro Nala: Endlessness 2024 [Digipack / CD]

Brown Danny: Stardust (White) [2 Vinyl LP]

Sinephro Nala: Endlessness [2 Vinyl LP]

Squarepusher: Ultravisitor (20th Anniversary) [3 Vinyl LP]