Regis / Female | Againstnature (2LP) [TRESOR147]

Regis / Female | Againstnature
Label: Tresor – TRESOR147
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12", Album, Remastered, Reissue
Released| 22 Oct 2021

Originally released in the year 2000, the album represents a pivotal moment in the emergence of the “Birmingham Sound”; a stripped-back sub-genre of Techno, pioneered around this time in the English hub by artists such as Regis, Female, and Surgeon.

Influenced more by Industrial, Music Concrete, and EBM than from the melodic sounds of its Detroit predecessor, Regis later described the music as being made with a fractured pop sensibility which created a sound that may be faceless but by design loses none of the soul of its American counterpart.

Nowhere is this sonic changing of the guard more apparent than in opening track, Washing My Hands, which sets the stage with a vignette of field recordings: arc welders, water boilers and other sounds reminiscent of industrial workshops reframe your senses, placing your mind into a familiar yet unsettling dreamlike space. From this sound- scape emerges a high-pitched, vitreous noise heralding the jarring introduction of Let Them Bleed, the first of several trance-inducing tracks on the album such as Join Us In Paradise, and Guiltless, which layer percussive and sampled loops creating what Peter Sutton (aka Female) described as exotic hypnotics.

This remastered edition of Againstnature also features the additional track, Theme From Streetwalker, previously only available on Volume 6 of the Tresor Compilation series.

TRACKLIST:
A1   Washing My Hands
A2   Let Them Bleed 05:47
A3   Paralyzing
B1   Nothing And No One
B2   Meat
C1   Join Us In Paradise
C2   Hanoi Hanoi
D1   Guiltless
D2   Theme From Streetwalker 05:16
D3   Under Skin

# Techno