G-Man 'Moonbase Alpha' 2xLP

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Circuitry Electronic launches with a release that stands as a statement of intent -an artist with few true peers within English electronic music, with an album thatjumps out of the speakers and slaps you around the chops. G-Man is Gez Varley - one half of Sheffield pioneers LFO, and thirty years into hissolo career, with his first vinyl album release since Avanti on Force Inc way back in2002. Speaking to DJ magazine in 2014 Gez recalled his early days working with Mark Bellas LFO: “We were influenced by groups like 808 State. Unique 3, Nightmares OnWax and also stuff like Kraftwerk, Detroit techno and early electro. So when we firsthooked up and made tunes together we just wanted to rock the dancefloor at ourlocal club The Warehouse”. Their eponymous track ‘LFO’ – a classic of the bleepand bass techno movement – was one of the first releases on the Warp label, gate-crashing the UK’s Top 20 whilst annoying Simon Mayo along the way. Having worked with the likes of Richie Hawtin, Karl Bartos, Laurent Garnier, Art ofNoise, Radiohead, YMO and Alan Wilder, in addition to the LFO output, you'd expect Gez to know his way around a techno dancefloor rhythm and drum pattern, and this is an inventive funk-filled journey that never veers too far into experimental territory yet avoids the cliches and generic tropes that too often lose the listener when techno manifests in album form. As the inaugural release on the Circuitry Electronic label this album plugs all the rightsockets; stay close for further electronic expansions on the theme on the label in thecoming months. Condition: New Label: Circuitry Electronic Show more