To see into the progression of the “Birmingham Sound” -a stripped-back sub-genre of Techno getting involved with the dominant form of Techno heard in clubs in Berlin and around the world today, its proper to reissue a fundamental LP. Thats precisly why Tresor has been releasing a series of reissues from their catalogue.

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The next one to come on that series is the updated version of the classic Regis and Female long-player, ‘Againstnature‘ released in the year 2000. The LP will come out with an additional track, ‘Theme From Streetwalker’, previously only available on Volume 6 of the Tresor Compilation series. This remastered edition of ‘Againstnature’ is scheduled to be released on October 15th, 2021 in Vinyl and Digital formats via Tresor. Very recommendable release. Full details below.

Continuing the series of reissues from the Tresor catalogue, Tresor Records announces an updated version of the classic Regis and Female long-player, Againstnature.

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. Collected together the album is a key work in the progression of this sub-genre to the dominant form of Techno heard in clubs in Berlin and around the world today.

Artist. Regis / Female
Title. Againstnature
Cat#. TRESOR147
Format. 2×12″ / Digital
Label. Tresor
Release date. October 15th, 2021

Tracklist.

A1 / 1. Washing My Hands
A2 / 2. Let Them Bleed
A3 / 3. Paralyzing
B1 / 4. Nothing And No One
B2 / 5. Meat
C1 / 6. Join Us In Paradise
C2 / 7. Hanoi Hanoi
D1 / 8. Guiltless
D2 / 9. Theme From Streetwalker
D3 / 10. Under Skin

All tracks written & produced by Karl O’Connor & Peter Sutton

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