Media Condition: Mint (M) Sleeve Condition: Mint (M) Location: Label: Ekster Catalogue Number: EKS015 Country: Belgium Released: 28 Nov 2017 Genre: Electronic Style: Downtempo Comments: brand new unplayed sealed Notes: Presenting the 3rd edition of our EXO series. The Exoskeleton. The world outside resonants metallic. Its activity humming calm harmonics. I am in stasis. Liquified. Receiving alien signals. Unseen universes translated into sound. Notes bend like light reflected in a curved, hard surface. Sine waves as my sinews stretch. Muscles form and tie. Limbs from this soup. Pain is not the word for it. This flux. I am detached from my body. I listen to it bubble and evolve. Guessing at my shape. Serene. Yet I grow impatient. Anxious to be free as the world vibrates. I have my life to be getting on with after all. How long have I been in here? What will I find when I emerge? Celebrations? Or stamped on like a roach? Will I be wonderful with colour and wingspan? Dancing for a mate. I wonder as I wait and change. Change and wait. Would I be content on a diet of dirt? It goes like this. My thoughts in circles. Dream chasing worry. Worry chasing dream. Waiting to be reborn. Maybe I`ll soar. Riding warm swells on Summer days. Or will I dwell in the dark? No use for eyes. Only smell. Tasting the air for a sense of direction. Will I find myself one of a hive? Or will I remain alone? Expanding to crack this shell. Forcing myself out into the sun. Everything rings different in the light. I am slow in the warmth. A breeze drying my soft skin. Transforming it. Tempering it to steel. Polishing it until it shines. You can see your face in it. But I can`t see mine. Still left to suppose the presence I present. Old friends won`t recognise me. And I won`t recognise them. Remixed, remodelled, restructured. Bold explorers discovering purpose anew. Before all I did was eat. First steps I stumble. Unsure of how many legs I`ve got. The Sun seems to sing her reassurance. Her welcome. My joints clank and rattle. Like those of a machine. I move stiff and robotic, but swiftly now. Here comes the rain. Heaven cracks back to throw its shower against my armour and I feel invincible, immortal. Impenetrable in the private fortress of this exoskeleton. Shrugging off a god`s tears. Blood races. Oxygen pumps. What passes for a heart, this heart, is strong. With no measure of time, I busy myself with the business of being alive.(Text by Robert Harris — banbantonton.com) All tracks written and produced by the artists stated in the tracklist. Double 12" vinyl (180g) released in an edition of 500 with printed inner sleeves & download cards. A1. Roman Hiele - Birdwatching 5:34A2. Polysick - Misolidio 3:02A3. Rembrandt Redandt - Blankenberge 1:18A4. Soft Focus (3) - Momentum 3:36B1. Aloïs R. - Twee Beren 0:41B2. Milan W. - Glaasjes 3:46B3. Fregnacciarius - Ferragosto 4:38B4. Elko Blijweert - Verletztes Reh 2:59B5. Hantrax - Walking With Raven 2:55C1. Jonny Nash - Head Is Clearer 7:22C2. Gigi Masin - Starshine 5:54D1. Suzanne Kraft - Still Sick 7:12D2. Roman Hiele - Buchla For Sunday 1:37D3. Componium Ensemble - Kats 2:10D4. Roger 3000 - Nuptiale 3:24 Barcode and Other Identifiers: Data provided by Discogs
