Crates Motel - Crates Motel Vol 1PRE ORDER ITEM Expected in stock between 9th 23rd June PLEASE ORDER PRE ORDER ITEMS SEPARATELY FROM IN STOCK ITEMS IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO AVOID DELAYS TO YOUR ORDER S Four of the most rapturous re edits out there coming courtesy of the Crates Motel camp. Classics reworked with care, proceed with caution.

Originally a lyricist

His melodic sensibility and playful ear for atmosphere remain the rippling core of the project’s fingerprint

Drums scuttle and spike against flowing synthlines as lyrics smoulder with an inchoate intensity

Those 'secret' mixes

playing along with jazz-tinged bass lines and intricately intertwined keys

if I mess up the last bar

One in every home

recorded over an 18 month period and drawing inspiration from the fourth-world pop of Japan’s Yellow Magic Orchestra as much as it does Triton-fuelled Grime made 25 years later

sunset-ready soundscapes that defy neat categorization

the record is reissued in a gatefold sleeve including a promotional image from the time of release

by an undeniably impressive roll call of collaborators

' with Chick Corea and Chucho Valdes