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Default:19

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Rough Trade UK

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12" and 10"

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Discogs ID

Limited edition

Colour

Black

Format Music EU

Extended format

Extended format: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Download code: No

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Release date

2024-03-22

Format multiplier

Catalogue number

FATLP17/10FAT113

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60011641131


Black 12"x2 | Rough Trade Exclusive

Artist

Traams

Label EU

Fat Cat

Genre EU

Alternative / Modern

Traams is a UK Indie Rock / Post-Punk band that was formed in 2011. With their energetic and raw sound, they have captivated audiences around the world. Drawing inspiration from bands like Gilla Band, B Boys, and TVAM, Traams has carved out their own unique place in the music scene.
Known for their intense live performances, Traams delivers a powerful and immersive experience to their fans. Their music combines catchy melodies with gritty guitar riffs and driving rhythms, creating a sound that is both infectious and thought-provoking.
With influences ranging from Preoccupations to Fat White Family, Traams has developed a distinctive style that sets them apart from other artists in the genre. Their songs are filled with introspective lyrics and evocative storytelling, allowing listeners to connect on a deeper level.

Vinyl variants, bonus material and signed editions exclusively available from Rough Trade.

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Fat Cat is an electronica, noise, and post-rock label based in Brighton, UK. Originally a record shop in the early '90s, the label was established when the shop closed down in 1997 with support from [l311].

Renowned for their distinctive series of releases such as the "7" Series", "10" Series", "12" Series", "Splinter Series", "Remix Series", and "E-RMX Series," Fat Cat has left a significant mark on the music industry. For more instrumental orchestral-type releases, they also operate a sublabel called [l=130701], named after its inception date: 13 July 2001.

With numerous notable artists under their belt, Fat Cat Records continues to be at the forefront of cutting-edge music production and distribution.

FatCat trio, Traams, have invited two modern day dub explorers, Elijah
Minnelli and Jay Glass Dubs, to tackle a selection of tracks from their stellar 2022
long-player, Personal Best.

Athens-based Dimitris Papadatos, aka Jay Glass Dubs, first caught folks attention in
2016, with a series of bespoke releases on Bristol’s Bokeh Versions. Demonstrating a
sound that he called Glacial Dancehall, the Greek musician has worked with “beat”
legend Leslie Winer, paid tribute to Spacemen 3, and recently deconstructed `80s soul
/ pop / style icon Sade, for Berceuse Heroique. Last year he launched his own label, the
Boomkat-backed, Extended Techniques.


Renowned for uncompromising, radical work, Jay Glass Dub’s transformation of
TRAAMS might be his most accessible outing to date. The E.P. is as a whole is a warm,
euphoric, sonic wash. Breathe’s tribal tom-tom-ed space rock raga is dropped down to
ambient drones and disembodied voices, before tripped-out drums add a distant,
muffled, funk. Sleeper, originally a lushly layered, uptempo thump, a Sonic Youth-like
duet between TRAAM’s Stuart Hopkins and Soffie Viemose, of Danish band, Lowly, is
serrated into synthetic shimmer. Now set to a sedated ceremonial march, Dimitris
draws out its delicate 6-strings, which were previously lost in the mix. Hallie, on the
album, was a churning, cathartic rush. Full of noisy arcs, and electric shredding, it was
gravity-destroying, orbit-obliterating stuff. Here, it’s a chunky, chugging, skank, dancing
to muted foot stomps and hand claps. The song itself, shattered into splinters, spinning
whispers, locked in infinite loops. Comedown once boasted a breakneck, head-
banging, rhythm section, and snaking, droning guitar. Driving, like a double-drummed La
Dusseldorf. Grooving, like CAN. In Jay Glass Dub’s hands it’s less racing motorik, more
stoned Massive Attack. Cutting a slow-motion rug to a cool contrabass-like line, and
refocused on Liza Violet of Menace Beach’s ethereal guest vocal, only the overall
melody remains.


Elijah Minnelli is perhaps the more elusive / mysterious of the pair. His press one-
sheets basing him in the fictional town of Breadminster, and branding his imprint the
County Council's Music Initiative. Since 2019, with a handful of self-released 7s,
Elijah has slowly built a complete mythology around this made up locale, which
spills out into his monthly Soho Radio show, The Mustard Hour. Minnelli’s own
music is a unique, distinct, fusion of reggae, Eastern European, and Latin American
influences. The latest example can be found on fantastic 45 produced for Portland
institution, ZamZam Sounds.




Elijah’s reworks of Traams are an “organic” affair, incorporating international folk
elements, and throughout have a strong, traditional, skanking, roots feel. Low-end is
always his lead instrument. Sirens, formerly a soothing synthscape of gentle bleeps
and serene Morse Code signals - similar to Cluster / Harmonia’s classic pastoral
kosmische - becomes a broken, beat-juggled bogle, bullied by seismic subs. Dry’s
wall of raucous riffing, and searing stratospheric feedback gets heavily sedated.
Stripped to a mournful melodica-led samba. The Light At Night, which began life as
a bruised and wasted sermon, delivered by Protomartyr’s Joe Casey, riding another
frantic, Velvet Underground-esque raga, also pays haunting, hypnotic homage to
Augustus Pablo’s famous Far East Sound. Its winds, however, blow in from The
Balkans, like a squeezebox shanty from the Turkish Straits or Black Sea, rather than
Mother Africa.

Traams In Dub Vol 1 - The J Glass Dubs / Traams In Dub Vol 2 - The Elijah Minnelli Dubs

Music EU

Discover Traams In Dub Vol 1 - The J Glass Dubs / Traams In Dub Vol2 - The Elijah Minnelli Dubs by Traams. Bundle includes 12" and 10" vinyl records from Fat Cat. Explore modern dub explorations of TRAAMS' tracks by Jay Glass Dubs and Elijah Minnelli.