Fracture - Slow Astro, Vol.3 & 4 [Neon Green Cassette]

Astrophonica

£14.04

Cat No: APHAC004
Format: Limited Neon Green Cassette
Release Date: 09 Jun 2023
Genre: Bass / Electronic / Dub

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Fracture’s Slow Astro concept returns for another instalment of slow edits from the Astrophonica back catalogue. Reducing the tempo right down to 97bpm for that extra baggy vibe and recorded live on a Mackie mixing desk with added dub siren and FX - an overnight sleeper train journey to the slower depths of music from Sully, Client_03, Nikki Nair, Damian’s Ghost and more.

Here's what Fracture has to say about the Slow Astro project.

“I have always been intrigued by playing audio back at different speeds. Be it speeding up breakbeats to make Jungle or slowing down pop music to make drawn out nostalgic atmospheres. Some of my first experiments with pitch were with my brother. We’d record ourselves onto cassette and use the hi speed dubbing feature to change the pitch of our voices. If you held the play button down half way it would cause the tape to play back at different speeds - mangling the audio. Over the past year I became fascinated with playing on 7 inch records on 33. New rhythms, grooves and textures appear when you change the pitch of audio. It can totally alter the emotional quality of a piece of music you thought you knew so well - creating new artifacts with a familiar yet dreamlike quality. I started to wonder what the Astrophonica catalogue would sound like slowed down. So I made ‘Slow Astro’. Shout out DJ Screw…"

SIDE A : Slow Astro, Vol. 3

Client_03 - Suspect Dispenser (Slow Mix)
Fracture & Sam Binga - EBP (Slow Mix)
Fracture - Verhoeven (Slow Mix)
Fracture - Get Raw (Slow Mix)
Fracture & Sam Binga - Conditional (Slow Mix)
Client_03 - Thought Disposal (Slow Mix)
Fracture - Dropping You (Slow Mix)
Client_03 - WAVEFILE_Dayjob (Slow Mix)
Moresounds - You Don’t Know (Slow Mix)

SIDE B : Slow Astro, Vol. 4

Dawn Day Night - Alcoholic Dance Flow (Slow Mix)
Chimpo - Buzz Army (Slow Mix)
Nikki Nair - Its NP Complicated (Slow Mix)
Damian’s Ghost - All I Remember (Slow Mix)
BSN Posse - No Matter How Far (Slow Mix)
Philip D Kick - Funk 160 (Slow Mix)
Tehbis & Touchy Subject - 1988 (Slow Mix)
Dawn Day Night - Mister Meaner (Slow Mix)
Fracture & Neptune - The Limit (Slow Mix)