Mike Parker - Epilogue [3LP]

Format: 3 x LP
Catalogue No.: FIELD38
Barcode: 4250101486463
Release Date: 24 Oct 2025
Genre: Techno/Minimal

Following the reissue of his debut album Dispatches, Field Records is proud to return to the seminal work of Mike Parker with an overview of his releases on Prologue — a truly original strain of steely, hypnotic techno that has touched upon many different waves within the wider scene.

Having pioneered a hard-edged, reductionist style via his Geophone label since the mid-90s, around 2010 Mike Parker found himself at the vanguard of an emergent sound alongside artists like Donato Dozzy and Cio D'or exploring the possibilities of immersive, profoundly transcendental club music. The Prologue label came to define this cult zeitgeist, where reduction and repetition took on a truly psychedelic quality and the subtle details made all the difference. It ran from 2008 to 2015, laying the foundations for the deep techno sound that remains a vital, evolving subculture in the present moment.

From Parker's first appearance on Prologue with the Subterranean Liquid EP in 2011 through to the Lustrations LP in 2013, he delivered some of the most incisive music of his accomplished career — teased-out rhythms carrying exquisitely engineered textures veering from the subliminal to the visceral, locked into endless, cyclical oblivion and maintaining a stern, machinist veneer. 

This collection on Field Records combs through Parker's Prologue output and makes a considered selection, gathering key pieces from the first two EPs alongside six of the album tracks on a triple vinyl pressing, alongside a further eight cuts on the expanded digital edition.

Not just a straight-forward reissue, consider Epilogue a thoughtful reframing of a key point in Mike Parker's stellar career. In every exacting pulse, every inch of tacit spatial design, it's the work of an expert sculpting a sound which remains influential in the here and now.

Tracklisting
A1    Mike Parker    Ringing Bass (Edited Length)    00:06:27
A2    Mike Parker    Subterranean Liquid    00:07:31
B1    Mike Parker    Forward (The 5 AM Mix)    00:04:40
B2    Mike Parker    Forward (Donato Dozzy Remix)    00:05:42
C1    Mike Parker    Pulse Trader    00:05:28
C2    Mike Parker    Moisture (Treatment 3)    00:05:53
D1    Mike Parker    Lustration Four (DaiKaiju)    00:06:05
D2    Mike Parker    Lustration Five (息)
00:08:15
E1    Mike Parker    Lustration Six (Megalith)    00:05:35
E2    Mike Parker    Lustration Eight (Contours)    00:05:18
F1    Mike Parker    Lustration Eleven (Sarychev)    00:05:52
F2    Mike Parker    Lustration Twelve (Derecho)    00:06:05