‘Travelog’ was the third EP released by Mat Steel and Mark Fell as SND, arriving in 1999 just before the release of their influential debut album ‘Makesnd Cassette’ on the Mille Plateaux label.
Of the three EP reissues in the series, ‘Travelog’ contains the most developed and satisfying work from the pair, edging their production palette into more fully-realised dimensions, colouring-in those instantly recognisable bass notes and isolated percussive elements with a slow trickle of melody. The 6 extra tracks included are dead strong - extending the original EP into an hour of mesmerising, slowly immersive rhythmic pulses that still sound pretty much unlike anything you’ll have heard before - a perfect bridge between House, Techno and UKG re-imagined within a stripped structure that should act as a masterclass for a new school of producers trying to balance-out rhythmic complexity with space.
The opening ‘A1’ encapsulates this asymmetry brilliantly, bare swing and shuffle riding chimes that add warmth and space, while A3 takes those same elements and sharpens them into a slow alignment bolstered by that immaculate mastering treatment from Rashad Becker. ‘B3’ takes things deeper - a slow percussive edit slowly drowned-out by an analogue drone, while the closing side joins the dots between this EP series and that trio of albums for Mille Plateaux that would soon establish SND as the most forward-thinking and still resolutely original producers from an otherwise largely-forgotten musical era.
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Third in a series of three extended reissues from SND - 12-tracks fully remastered from DAT tapes by Rashad Becker and available on digital formats for the first time ever.
‘Travelog’ was the third EP released by Mat Steel and Mark Fell as SND, arriving in 1999 just before the release of their influential debut album ‘Makesnd Cassette’ on the Mille Plateaux label.
Of the three EP reissues in the series, ‘Travelog’ contains the most developed and satisfying work from the pair, edging their production palette into more fully-realised dimensions, colouring-in those instantly recognisable bass notes and isolated percussive elements with a slow trickle of melody. The 6 extra tracks included are dead strong - extending the original EP into an hour of mesmerising, slowly immersive rhythmic pulses that still sound pretty much unlike anything you’ll have heard before - a perfect bridge between House, Techno and UKG re-imagined within a stripped structure that should act as a masterclass for a new school of producers trying to balance-out rhythmic complexity with space.
The opening ‘A1’ encapsulates this asymmetry brilliantly, bare swing and shuffle riding chimes that add warmth and space, while A3 takes those same elements and sharpens them into a slow alignment bolstered by that immaculate mastering treatment from Rashad Becker. ‘B3’ takes things deeper - a slow percussive edit slowly drowned-out by an analogue drone, while the closing side joins the dots between this EP series and that trio of albums for Mille Plateaux that would soon establish SND as the most forward-thinking and still resolutely original producers from an otherwise largely-forgotten musical era.
Third in a series of three extended reissues from SND - 12-tracks fully remastered from DAT tapes by Rashad Becker and available on digital formats for the first time ever.
‘Travelog’ was the third EP released by Mat Steel and Mark Fell as SND, arriving in 1999 just before the release of their influential debut album ‘Makesnd Cassette’ on the Mille Plateaux label.
Of the three EP reissues in the series, ‘Travelog’ contains the most developed and satisfying work from the pair, edging their production palette into more fully-realised dimensions, colouring-in those instantly recognisable bass notes and isolated percussive elements with a slow trickle of melody. The 6 extra tracks included are dead strong - extending the original EP into an hour of mesmerising, slowly immersive rhythmic pulses that still sound pretty much unlike anything you’ll have heard before - a perfect bridge between House, Techno and UKG re-imagined within a stripped structure that should act as a masterclass for a new school of producers trying to balance-out rhythmic complexity with space.
The opening ‘A1’ encapsulates this asymmetry brilliantly, bare swing and shuffle riding chimes that add warmth and space, while A3 takes those same elements and sharpens them into a slow alignment bolstered by that immaculate mastering treatment from Rashad Becker. ‘B3’ takes things deeper - a slow percussive edit slowly drowned-out by an analogue drone, while the closing side joins the dots between this EP series and that trio of albums for Mille Plateaux that would soon establish SND as the most forward-thinking and still resolutely original producers from an otherwise largely-forgotten musical era.
Third in a series of three extended reissues from SND - 12-tracks fully remastered from DAT tapes by Rashad Becker and available on digital formats for the first time ever.
‘Travelog’ was the third EP released by Mat Steel and Mark Fell as SND, arriving in 1999 just before the release of their influential debut album ‘Makesnd Cassette’ on the Mille Plateaux label.
Of the three EP reissues in the series, ‘Travelog’ contains the most developed and satisfying work from the pair, edging their production palette into more fully-realised dimensions, colouring-in those instantly recognisable bass notes and isolated percussive elements with a slow trickle of melody. The 6 extra tracks included are dead strong - extending the original EP into an hour of mesmerising, slowly immersive rhythmic pulses that still sound pretty much unlike anything you’ll have heard before - a perfect bridge between House, Techno and UKG re-imagined within a stripped structure that should act as a masterclass for a new school of producers trying to balance-out rhythmic complexity with space.
The opening ‘A1’ encapsulates this asymmetry brilliantly, bare swing and shuffle riding chimes that add warmth and space, while A3 takes those same elements and sharpens them into a slow alignment bolstered by that immaculate mastering treatment from Rashad Becker. ‘B3’ takes things deeper - a slow percussive edit slowly drowned-out by an analogue drone, while the closing side joins the dots between this EP series and that trio of albums for Mille Plateaux that would soon establish SND as the most forward-thinking and still resolutely original producers from an otherwise largely-forgotten musical era.