Agh, here's the first one that I'd completely forgotten I had. It's another Fopp purchase. I remember they were open on Easter Sunday in 1998, and we popped in just because we could, having had a late-morning coffee at a bar on Sheffield's Division Street. That day they had a lot of vinyl at bargain-bin prices — this still has the £2.99 price label on it — and when a record costs less than the two lattes you've just bought, well, why not? It was Alex Patterson's name that attracted me; I don't know Darren Emerson in any other context.
I played this once, maybe twice, soon after I got it. I remember it being ambient as in 'inoffensive', but with less character than Orb recordings. It's a vinyl double-album and these days, even if we're ashamed to admit it, we're all slightly put off by the hassle of getting off our arses and flipping a record over so many times to hear it, aren't we? So who knows if I'll ever hear it again?
Still, I just checked online and it seems to sell for three times more that I paid for it (the record is a numbered limited edition: mine is #1937), while the lattes I bought aren't worth much now.
Later&hellip Curiosity got the better of me and I played it. The Darren Emerson sides are the kind of dance music that just sounds anodyne to me; the Alex Patterson material is OK, but still unremarkable.
The MusicBrainz entries for this album show the source tracks for the mixes: see disc 1 and disc 2.
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