Altered Zones

The Manchester electronic duo of Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty have been climbing further and further above ground of late with their lantern-lit, patiently unfolding explorations of the farthest and most arcane recesses of our archival music consciousness (even, most recently, as high as NPR). The three LPs they released on the UK's Modern Love imprint in 2009-2010-- Symbiosis, Liberation Through Hearing, and Voices of Dust-- have the particularity of being almost entirely sample-based, stitching together crackly vinyl sources as diverse as jazz, early electronic and industrial, musique concrète, vintage Arabesque sounds, and old library records, while never betraying so much as a seam.

Demdike Stare's Tryptych, out this week, brings together all three releases plus some 40 minutes of additional material from those sessions in an elegant, gatefold triple CD package. The glacial and hypnotic "Nothing But The Night 2", below, is one the bonus cuts from Liberation Through Hearing, one of our favorites from last year. (via Visitation Rites)

Demdike Stare: "Nothing But the Night 2" by alteredzones

Tryptych 3-CD is out now on Modern Love, and is available via Forced Exposure and BoomKat