{"product_id":"other-people-place-the-lifestyles-of-the-laptop-cafe-2xlp","title":"Other People Place, The - Lifestyles Of The Laptop Cafe [2xLP]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(219, 36, 36);\"\u003eRelease Date: February 10, 2017\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel: Warp Records\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTucked away in the great depths of the Warp catalog is this elegant, liquid heartache of a record. An album credited to the late James Stinson, one half of cult-Detroit techno unit (alongside Gerald Donald) Drexciya, Lifestyles... stands as one of the remarkable records of the genre. Stinson died a year afterrelease, lending this already beautiful work endless resonance. Where the dystopian aqua-tronics of previous Drexciya were often jet-black, cold, brittle and abrasive this is a yearning soul music, played out down rain soaked streets, the buzzing lights of industry flickering in the darkness, the warm blue of a new day ready to break. This is a record where techno reached its raw, most emotive peak... Sustained pads paint minor-key melodies while electroid-vocals are buried deep in the hydrothermal mass of squelching bass-clusters and funky-filtered bleeps. At its skittering percussion core, a stripped back 808 tapestry, sequenced into myriad jazz-inflected shapes, a pulsing kick drum the snapping heartbeat, ticking hi-hats bursting from every angle. All this tingles with the ghosts of records past, of Kraftwerkian humanoids, of first-wave Detroit, of refracted Hancock and Ayres, but as Stinson intones on the fifth track, ‘let me be what I wanna be’, Lifestyles is a creation all of its own special making, a sound that would inspire the latter day deep-house machinations of Omar S, Jus-Ed, Moodymann and influence–however indirectly- a wealth of current UK\/US bass operators including Actress and Kyle Hall. More importantly it remains a beguiling epitaph to Stinson’s sadly distinguished life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat Details:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2LP in 5mm outer sleeve w\/ DL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Redeye","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44462143864883,"sku":"801061809010","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/5935\/9283\/files\/cover_1325c175-d125-4bed-ba07-c2902377bda3.jpg?v=1782315711","url":"https:\/\/seasickbham.com\/products\/other-people-place-the-lifestyles-of-the-laptop-cafe-2xlp","provider":"Seasick Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}