Name: Chapterhouse Retranslated by Global Communication - Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis
Brand: Global Communication

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-EVOR-08

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Colour

Black

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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 US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-09-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060263721987

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Total Cap

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

Artist

Global Communication

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Evolution

No other electronic dance act made so many recordings in such a wide range of styles (and with such impressive results) as the duo of Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton. After coming together in 1991, the pair began recording music whose range spanned all of electronic dance music, though many were recorded under aliases — industrial techno as Reload, electro-funk as Jedi Knights, progressive house as Link, jungle as the Chameleon, and most famously, ambient and house as Global Communication. Their 1994 LP 76:14, recorded as Global Communication, was a notable high point of the early-'90s ambient house movement.

The partnership began in 1991 when Pritchard and Middleton formed Evolution Records to release their own dancefloor-oriented house and techno. The first three releases on Evolution were EPs recorded as Reload by Pritchard/Middleton in 1992-1993 — The Reload, The Autoreload, and The Biosphere. The records were excellent Detroit-inspired tracks that gained fame on the Infonet label with an EP and the 1994 full-length A Collection of Short Stories. Global Communication debuted on Evolution 004 with The Keongaku EP. They later released their full-length debut Pentamerous Metamorphosis, which was actually an extended remix of Chapterhouse's Blood Music LP.

In mid-1994,

Reissue of the revolutionary 1993 full album overhaul of the ​Blood Music album by labelmates Chapterhouse. Whilst retaining some elements of the shoegaze guitar music of the original recording to use as building blocks, Global Communication essentially crafted their own album out of the results, and the result is a lesser known but equally fine-crafted companion to much-loved ambient techno classic ​76:14​. It’s also worth bearing in mind that outside of dub reggae, it was pretty much unheard of for an entire album to be remixed. 

Issued on the group’s own Evolution label and available for the first time in 22 years, it’s been fully remastered from the original DAT tapes, with great care taken to retain the full dynamics of the original recordings. It is also accompanied by in-depth sleeve notes by Ben Cardew and a beautifully updated gatefold sleeve design by Mark Gowing.

Chapterhouse Retranslated by Global Communication - Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis

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