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v/a - downwards 20th anniversary - downwards - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Techno / Electro

1. Antonym - Consumer Design
2. Mark Farmer - None Of This
3. Regis - Cold Water (Substance version)
4. Anthony Child - Over Napoli
5. Fret - Untitled
6. Concrete Fence - The Unabridged Truth (Sleeparchive Version)
7. Talker - Cut The Weight (Part I & II)
8. Kerridge - A Shadow Cast
9. OAKE - Tenoun Rah Zan

Samuel Kerridge, OAKE, Surgeon and Regis in various forms all feature on the release celebrating two decades of Downwards !

The full tracklisting for the double LP demonstrates the label’s intent to draw attention to some of its earliest releases as well as including some unreleased material. The briefly active Downwards sub-label Zeitgeist is represented with tracks from Antonyn and Mark Farmer, the rarely used collaboration between label founders Regis and Peter ‘Female’ Sutton – with the latter amusingly described by one Discogs user as “some scary ass voodoo shit”. Surgeon’s 1998 contribution to the Slut Smalls label run by the beloved Jockey Slut magazine also features along with a rare Substance version of “Cold Water,” the closing track on Gymnastics, the debut LP from Regis.

It’s the unreleased material that will get Downwards completists excited however, with contributions from former Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris under his rarely used Fret alias, label newcomers OAKE and Samuel Kerridge as well as the previously unheralded Talker. Perhaps most intriguing is the presence of a Sleeparchive remix of “The Unabridged Truth” by Concrete Fence, the recent PAN pairing of Regis and Russell Haswell.