Re-Entry (Reissue)
Justin Broadrick & Kevin Martin’s singular ’95 illbient dub trip starring Jon Hassell and Kingsuk Biswas (Bedouin Ascent) returns, remastered by Broadrick and reissued for first time in a generation - RIYL Om, Spectre, Andy Stott
Originally a part of Virgin’s Ambient Series, the 1995 release of ‘Re-Entry’ then followed the Kevin Martin-programmed ‘Ambient 4: Isolationism’ and ‘Macro Dub Infection Volume One’ sets on the label with a deep plunge into the murky backroom and bedroom sound of a mid decade UK. Where the duo of Kevin Martin (The Bug) and Justin Broadrick’s (Godflesh) first album as Techno Animal, ‘Ghosts’ (1991) still betrayed their mutual roots in radical industrial metal swag, their 2nd album paralleled the rapid development of styles during that era with a paradoxically sludgier, layered and textured form of mutant industro-dub menace that ran counter to the grain of club and rock musicks. Smelting aspects of everything from King Tubby to Killing Joke and Godflesh into a potent stew of dub bass, brain-curdling acid and noise swelter, ‘Re-Entry’ remains a momentous standout in either’s catalogue and of the era itself, prompting new directions for subsequent threads of post rock, and experimental hip hop and soundsystem music.
For 2.5 hours they take possession of your listening space with a full bodied transposition of studio-as-instrument black magick into mildewed housing stock and smoke chambers across Blighty and beyond. Like the ‘Macro Dub Infection’ series’ dissemination thru Virgin’s worldwide web of shop placements, the 2CD reached myriad ears spellbound by its heavyweight conviction and depth of sound, with most of the dozen tracks taking over 10 minutes to execute their functions and leaving no body in doubt to their dreadnought momentum. Between the 4th world trumpet peal of Jon Hassell on opener ‘Flight of the Hermaphrodite’ and hypnagogic plangency of ‘Needle Park’, the album follows a logic of dense and seething pressure in the first half’s ‘Dream Machinery’ with standouts on the acid-woven trample of ‘Mastadon Americanus’ and 14 minute salvo ‘Narco Agent Vs Medicine Man’ ft. Kingsuk Biswas, to the 20 minute psych-dub blow out ‘Demodex Invasion’, while the 2nd half’s ‘Heavy Lids’ induces sensations of sleep paralysis and doom that ran counter to putative perceptions of the ‘90s as one shiny rave orgy, between the outernational dub drone of ‘Evil Spirits / Angel Dust’, and bleakness of ‘Resuscitator.’
View more
2023 reissue. Remastered by Justin Broadrick. New artwork by Simon Fowler.
Out of Stock
Justin Broadrick & Kevin Martin’s singular ’95 illbient dub trip starring Jon Hassell and Kingsuk Biswas (Bedouin Ascent) returns, remastered by Broadrick and reissued for first time in a generation - RIYL Om, Spectre, Andy Stott
Originally a part of Virgin’s Ambient Series, the 1995 release of ‘Re-Entry’ then followed the Kevin Martin-programmed ‘Ambient 4: Isolationism’ and ‘Macro Dub Infection Volume One’ sets on the label with a deep plunge into the murky backroom and bedroom sound of a mid decade UK. Where the duo of Kevin Martin (The Bug) and Justin Broadrick’s (Godflesh) first album as Techno Animal, ‘Ghosts’ (1991) still betrayed their mutual roots in radical industrial metal swag, their 2nd album paralleled the rapid development of styles during that era with a paradoxically sludgier, layered and textured form of mutant industro-dub menace that ran counter to the grain of club and rock musicks. Smelting aspects of everything from King Tubby to Killing Joke and Godflesh into a potent stew of dub bass, brain-curdling acid and noise swelter, ‘Re-Entry’ remains a momentous standout in either’s catalogue and of the era itself, prompting new directions for subsequent threads of post rock, and experimental hip hop and soundsystem music.
For 2.5 hours they take possession of your listening space with a full bodied transposition of studio-as-instrument black magick into mildewed housing stock and smoke chambers across Blighty and beyond. Like the ‘Macro Dub Infection’ series’ dissemination thru Virgin’s worldwide web of shop placements, the 2CD reached myriad ears spellbound by its heavyweight conviction and depth of sound, with most of the dozen tracks taking over 10 minutes to execute their functions and leaving no body in doubt to their dreadnought momentum. Between the 4th world trumpet peal of Jon Hassell on opener ‘Flight of the Hermaphrodite’ and hypnagogic plangency of ‘Needle Park’, the album follows a logic of dense and seething pressure in the first half’s ‘Dream Machinery’ with standouts on the acid-woven trample of ‘Mastadon Americanus’ and 14 minute salvo ‘Narco Agent Vs Medicine Man’ ft. Kingsuk Biswas, to the 20 minute psych-dub blow out ‘Demodex Invasion’, while the 2nd half’s ‘Heavy Lids’ induces sensations of sleep paralysis and doom that ran counter to putative perceptions of the ‘90s as one shiny rave orgy, between the outernational dub drone of ‘Evil Spirits / Angel Dust’, and bleakness of ‘Resuscitator.’