UR* – Dark Energy

This release was a very strong 2x12" by U.R. A-side and D-side are my favorite, but all is good really. Funky, sonically original, like techno should be.

Much better sound quality than the atrocious original pressing. However, "Midnite Sunshine" and "Atomic Witchdokta" are both heavily edited - the former is seven minutes shorter than on the 1994 release! OK, so the original goes on a bit, but this is more of a multiple amputation job carried out with a blunt hatchet than anything you could call an "edit". Not impressed.

Wicked record but..
My red copy sounds shite, always has. like a bad pressing. judging by youtube I'm not alone. is the repress any better?

James Pennington told in an interview with Kodwo Eshun
that his grandfather was fighting as GI in Germany in the second world war. At one night the German shot flares into the sky which lit up more brightly as the midnight sun. He slept at this time, waked up suddenly and ran miles away in panic with the wrong shoes(!)of his comrade. That's the story of "Midnight Sunshine" which tells you about fear and pain.