Name: Your Community Hub
Brand: Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

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Default:19

Supplier EU

state51

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9999

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Colour details

Discogs ID

Limited edition

Colour

Purple

Format Music EU

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Download code

Download code: No

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Release date

2024-05-24

Format multiplier

Catalogue number

CiS157LPPURPLE

UPC / Barcode

5060889590592

Purple LP

Cream with Purple Splatter

Cream

CiS157CP

Cream LP

Extended format: No

CiS157CD

5060889590738

Artist

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

Label EU

Castles in Space

Genre EU

Alternative / Modern

Gordon Chapman-Fox was born in the 1970s and spent his childhood re-enacting Star Wars to the sounds of Jean-Michel Jarre against the backdrop of the last gasp of the space-race. Gordon has been making electronic music since 2003 under various names and labels. Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan is his latest project.

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan has seen four albums released to critical and popular acclaim under the much respected Castles In Space imprint.

<p>Castles in Space is a record label based in Biggleswade, UK. We specialize in producing hand numbered colored wax editions of music releases, accompanied by inserts and badges. Our focus is on curating unique and limited edition vinyl records that are both visually stunning and sonically captivating. With our passion for quality craftsmanship and attention to detail, we aim to provide music enthusiasts with an exceptional listening experience.</p>

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan’s new album, Your Community Hub continues Gordon Chapman-Fox’s sonic exploration of the New Towns movement, and how the issues they set out to solve still echo today.

The theme for 2024’s album is Community, and the Community Centres that populated Warrington and Runcorn to provide all the facilities people needed within a five minute walk from their home. These ideas predate the current talk of 15 Minute Cities by 50 years.

Not only have the past 50 years seen a decline in these community centres, but also in the services that they offered – be it handy access to a GP or dentist, Post Office and more – as successive governments undermined and eroded those basic services.

As well as a decline in the community centres and services, the past 50 years have also been matched with a decline in community, and shared experience. Mrs Thatcher’s statement that “there is no such thing as society” was ridiculed at the time, but successive Tory governments have taken this as a mission statement and aimed to remove as much support and communality from the country as possible, and left everyone to fend for themselves.

The album artwork features photographs from the archive of the architect Peter Garvin, and kindly provided by his son Richard Garvin. The photographs show Peter’s work on the Castlefield Community Centre, a sleek modernist structure clad in white ceramic tiles.2023’s The Nation’s Most Central Location became Castles In Space’s biggest ever release, selling out over the course of a weekend, and charting at #6 in the UK Official Independent Albums Chart. It’s critical success matched its record sales, with it topping Electronic Sound magazine’s Albums of the Year, making it to #13 in Rough Trade’s AotY list, and making it to similar lists for Bleep and Norman Records.

Your Community Hub

Music EU

Discover Your Community Hub by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan on Castles in Space. Explore the sonic journey on vinyl and CD formats.