Andy Stott - Passed Me By / We Stay Together

* ELECTRONIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR ON POP MATTERS: Arguably the most alluring and atmospheric electronic album of 2011, and inarguably a masterpiece of dub techno intensity, Passed Me By fulfills all the promise of Andy Stott’s excellent 12-inches for the Modern Love label while smashing his legacy to pieces. Originally an above-average minimal techno musician in the steely, workmanlike style of mentor Claro Intelecto, Stott not only subverts the familiar dub palette, he achieves Jeff Mills’ highest honor by giving us something we’ve never heard before. The sound of Passed Me By is, to put it mildly, remarkable.

* Two acclaimed albums from Andy Stott available for the first time on CD format, including 4
bonus tracks.
- 2CD edition packaged in a deluxe oversized gatefold Digifile.  
- 17 tracks /  1hour 40mins long
- Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
- Vinyl editions of both EP's sold out immediately
- RIYL: Actress, Kassem Mosse, Arthur Russell, Jamal Moss, Hype Williams, James Ferraro
- Both EP's have had extensive coverage in Pitchfork, Resident Advisor, Fact, Little White
Earbuds etc
- "...the impact is painfully visceral, it remains disturbingly compelling, the carnage impossible  to look away from…" Factmag.com (Passed Me By - Score 4.5/5)
- "…Stott's productions are like hellish vultures picking over the carcass of dance music, yet
every track yields fresh morsels." Pitchfork (We Stay Together - score: 8.2)

* Produced slowly and meticulously over the last 12 months, these two EP's were originally released on vinyl during 2011 and have become the most widely admired productions yet from Manchester based Andy Stott.

* Taking influence from an array of seemingly incoherent noises, from the indefinable and
unforgettable mind-tricks of Arthur Russell to the slowhouse of Kassem Mosse, from the alternate VHS realities of James Ferraro and Jamal Moss to the Linn Drum classics of the vintage Prince era - these tracks create their own pace and agenda, largely shying away from the dancefloor in favour of something more complex and hard to define...

Tracklisting:

Passed Me By (Disc 1):
1/. Signature
2/. New Ground
3/. North To South
4/. Intermittent
5/. Dark Details
6/. Execution
7/. Passed Me By
8/. Stitch House (Bonus)
9/. Love Nothing (Bonus)

We Stay Together (Disc 2):
1/. Submission
2/. Posers
3/ Bad Wires
4/. We Stay Together (Part One)
5/. Cherry Eye
6/. Cracked
7/. Work gate (Bonus)
8/. We Stay Together (Part Two) (Bonus)

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