Name: Gwalaxia:Belleville 1315 / Machynlleth 1404
Brand: Ffrancon

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ANKST153CD

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-08-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5024545930429

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

ANKST153

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Black

5024545928112

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Ffrancon

Genre GB

Techno / Electro

Label GB

Ankst Musik

This is a re-mastered, re-imagined and re-purposed physical album version of Welsh electronic artist Ffrancon's ground breaking fusion of Detroit techno and rebel Welsh politics.

These tracks originally appeared online in 2020 as part of Geraint Francon's 'Machynlleth Sound Machine' concept which grew out of the chance discovery that Belleville, the birthplace of Detroit techno, is twinned with the rural Welsh market town of Machynlleth, home to Owain Glyndwr's rebel Welsh Parliament of 1404.

Gwalaxia,as an album channels the rebelious spirit of these two places through the medium of electronic music, the result is techno music soaked in the collective haze of hundreds of years of Welsh history and southwesterly storms - a Cambrofuturistic take on a staple of Afrofuturism.

As the spirit of independence and support for the break up of the union grows in Wales and beyond Gwalaxia is a timely and important record release and is a timely and essential artistic statement of resistance and hope in the face of increasing political corruption and the growing danger to artistic freedom and creativity in the new post Brexit Britain.

Gwalaxia:Belleville 1315 / Machynlleth 1404

Music GB