Written & Produced in Detroit, MI for a performance @ the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (D.E.M.F.).
Re-mastered and transferred from reel to reel tape recordings.
Pre-mastering & engineering @ Studio 312, Chicago.
Gerard Hanson appears courtesy of Down Low Music and Matrix Records, Detroit.
Mastered and cut @ NSC - National Sound Corporation, now Sound Enterprises, Detroit, MI. USA.
Limited to a total of 1200 copies worldwide, 200 were kept at the label for the artist and for customers who were stuck when the Covert shop closed. The 12"s were pressed on black vinyl, while the 7"s were pressed in various vinyl colors in the following numbers:
500 - clear vinyl
450 - colored vinyl (purple marble or grey marble)
50 - red mixed with mauve/blue
The entire package comes packed in a custom plastic sleeve.
acidpimp, Jun 05, 2007
What to say when so much has been said, "Vantage Isle" marks a return of deepchord in top form and i am sure will be remembered as their best work as of yet. With unprecedented degrees of minimalism and flurting between deep detroit techno and dub reggae. It is, without a doubt, a kind of purist's music, approaching every cut as though trying to fashion, once and for all, the Ideal Dub Side to DC, which hasn't been approached nearly as well in the past. This album only proves beyond the shadow of a doubt, Deep Chord / Echospace and company are the second chapter in the Basic Channel legacy, the U.S. answer to Dub-minded Berlin-ism. This album has so many emotions and after repeat listens you find yourself in a blissful state of dub tech heaven and praise to Jah for it. This is reggae from an ambient lovers perspective, deep, solid heart like beats which seem to establish a timeless rhythm, focused and brought to the fore by a regular, sharp crack, the intrusion of the here and now. Minimal, subdued and accompaniment with echoes and repeated disappearing metallic-like chords which submerge you into the subconscience. The echospace reshapes & forms have these great washes of tape saturation and analog electricity, which rely more on the dub themes than the original (think Pole on a 4 / 4 rhythm) The ambient and beatless excursions seem to fit so perfectly with their subtle but complex, convoluted rhythms and soundscapes which seem to enlighten us about the power of music, a relief from the preceding heaviness of theme. Then to top it all off the revered and respected Detroit mainstay, Convextion contributes his very first remix in history which allows us to voyage into the alluring harmonies of elemental swashes of sound, haunting work to say the least. Could be one of my top 10 releases of all time but must give it some time, exceptional to say the very least.
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