Description:	180 gram wax 12" on Ninja Tune
	Format:	12" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Breaks / Big Beat
	Label:	Ninja Tune
	Price:	£5.19
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

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...according to our Brett on 06 November 2008.

Not heard of The Long Lost before but apparently it's Daedelus and his good lady wife. The 'Woebegone' 12" is a bit odd in that it offers up the remixes on the A-side but then they are by Flying Lotus who we've just declared 'the new Hot Chip' since he seems to pop up on something every week. He does two mixes of the same track and manages to make them sound completely different to each other which I can only take as a very intentional bit of showing off, the lead one sounds a lot like one of Leila's little fairytale worlds while the second sounds like it could be something from Tortoise's Standards album given a bit of an abstract hip-hop makeover. Listen to the track the mixes are done from and there's a bit of a surprise, it's a tender, minimal and folky ballad which features little beyond a quietly strummed acoustic guitar and a Nico-esque voice.. Having heard that it's probably not too out of order to say that the two Flying Lotus tracks on here might as well be classed as new material from the Flymo. And they're pretty ace too! On big bad 180g vinyl from Ninja Tune.

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What their label says...

The Long Lost takes the subject of love away from the clichés and hackneyed wailing of the
mainstream and reconnects it to those strange and uncontrollable emotions we’re all so in thrall to.

· A fascinating and utterly individual project, The Long Lost consists of highschool-
sweethearts turned husband-&-wife Alfred (a.k.a. Daedelus) and
Laura Darlington.

· After four years apart, they formed The Long Lost during a renewed
courtship in 1998. In contrast to the avant-electronics and hip-hop aesthetics
of Alfred's music as Daedelus, The Long Lost is a union of two
songwriters and producers with a penchant for sad sounds and delicate,
electro-acoustic melodies. These two hopeless romantics make psychedelic
lullabies for lovers and the lovelorn.

· An exquisite Brazilian-influenced number whose stillness and poise is in fact
driven hard by frantic brushed drums, ‘Woebegone’ goes folkways for an
achingly beautiful ballad, both familiar and strange.

· As well as Sa-Ra, Laura has also sung for Flying Lotus and here the
favour is returned with a remarkable remix from the man himself completing
the package and taking ‘Woebegone’ in a startling alternate direction.