Metro Area: Metro Area

Metro Area SKU: 33730233
Metro Area: Metro Area

Metro Area: Metro Area

Metro Area SKU: 33730233

Format: VINYL LP

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Description

Title: Metro Area
Artist: Metro Area
Label: Environ
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5414165084679
Genre: Rock

In the late nineties, the budding producers Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani bonded over their shared love of slower tempos and '70s and '80s New York City club culture. Obsessed with record digging and the sounds they heard on late-night "club classics" radio shows - and turned off by current releases they saw as artlessly "updating" sublime disco by sampling, filtering, and subjugating them with huge kick drums - the duo set out to discover how their favorite old 12" records were made. They naturally gravitated towards extended dubs of songs - full of strange mistakes and echoing backing tracks - instead of the better-known vocal versions. Lacking the big budgets and gear that made so many of their favorite classic records come together, they were forced to take a guerrilla approach. They reprogrammed their techno-oriented arsenal of secondhand synths and samplers, using novel digital recording technology to capture live instrumentation and prioritized mood over hooks, and the resulting music was just wrong enough to sound unlike anything else being released at the time. After just four underground 12" releases, the duo - now well-known as Metro Area - released their first and only album, Metro Area, in the fall of 2002. Fifteen years later, it's time to celebrate the culmination of their shared history and inspiration once again. Environ is proud to present the 15th Anniversary Edition of Metro Area, Metro Area's eponymous debut album, meticulously remastered using the original source tapes and generously spread across three slabs of vinyl. The 12-track triple LP and included download card combines all the songs from both the original US and licensed European releases, and features new commemorative artwork unique to this edition.

Tracks:
1.1 A1 Metro Area - Dance Reaction
1.2 A2 Metro Area - Piña
1.3 B1 Metro Area - Caught Up
1.4 B2 Metro Area - Evidence
2.1 C1 Metro Area - Miura
2.2 C2 Metro Area - Soft Hoop
2.3 D1 Metro Area - Orange Alert
2.4 D2 Metro Area - Square
3.1 Atmospherique
3.2 E2 Metro Area - Machine Vibes
3.3 F1 Metro Area - Strut
3.4 F2 Metro Area - Let's Get
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