Morganistic – Fluids Amniotic

Outstanding LP from the 'golden age' of British Techno - very much worth the price of admission for MARBLES and LEAF alone ;~]

it makes it and marbles are state of the art deep techno weapons Luke Slater is hero.imagine all the stuff he has on his card

Discovered this via the mighty John Peel. Understated, minimal techno that is still fresh after so many years. I know it sounds a bit mad but some of these rhythms have been going around my head for the last 27 years. 'Soup' is definitely my favourite. At 3.5 minutes it leaves you wanting more

finally a reissue of a Luke Slater classic double pack. Love this LP for two things, first it's a very good example justifying Slater's high ranks in the 90s. Second it divides people into two groups - first will love the A1 and will always credit only this one, the second will skip right to A2 and dive into a proto-Geophone kind of sound. Boiling outer space techno music. C1 is another highlight here, play it on a good system and everyone will expect an Axis/6277 logo on the label, while there isnt one.

well done Mote Evolver, you've just resurfaced an important release.

REPRESS REMASTERED ALERT:
As Morganistic, Luke Slater only released a handful of cuts-but among those was the album Fluids Amniotic, still widely praised today as a benchmark techno long-player. Slater unearthed the original DAT and reel-to-reel tapes and got them remastered for this 2020 repress!

This is an absolute blinding Techno album. Still sounds great after 25 years

There is a misprint on my copy; the B1 is listed as "Leaf" as well as the C1.

I keep this album close to the heart for already 12+Years. If you speak of subliminal analogue techno i think this is the album where you will end up with. I don’t know what the part of Alan Sage was in this masterpiece but i can clearly define Slater’s Signature in here. In 1994 the dark minimal and experimental grooves where far ahead of it’s time and thinking this is 20 years old now it hasen’t aged one second! The ethereal feel of Fluids Amniotic is what can happen if you let artists seek for possibilities to explore, in fertile destinations that artitsts can arrive at if they are left to find their path outside of commercial pressures. It contains tracks for every momentum in a dj-set; simultaneously accomplishes peak-time techno to opening set mood-setting.

The album evolves from murky acid, sinister techno and a belligerent ambient cut. It feels like your trapped into a dark hostile place but you know you will survive it and feel reborn afterwards. Most of my fellow oggers here speak of that they like the opening track: Bellows the most but i really can’t choose a favorite. It’s like choosing a favorite between one of your Offspring.

When you go to a party where Robert Hood, Jeff Mills, Marcel Dettmann or Steve Rachmad is playing listen very closely(and shame on you if you wouldn’t already, get rid of that phone!) they might just play one or even two Morganistic tracks in their set.

An Amniotic fluid is protective liquid contained in the womb of a pregnant woman. A recent study show that It contains a considerable amount of stem cells which can evolve in any cell of the human body. Is Luke Slater a visionairy?

Bellows; awesome track! Rest of the album is good as well!

Bellows is clearly the best track on the LP, but what a track it is. A pounding, squelching acidy anthem that builds and builds. Fantastic.