Datassette - Selected Offal (November 2016)

Datassette - Selected Offal

I was just made aware of this via Bleep's Facebook page. Out today it seems? I never listened to Offal (1999-2004) for whatever reason, perhaps because it was daunting, perhaps because I forgot. So this 18-track collation is very much appreciated. 

https://bleep.com/release/76811-datassette-selected-offal

Shipwrec cement what is hopefully the first of many albums from ambient-electro lynchpin Datassette with Selected Offal.
 

Arriving two yeas after his Apollo 12", which bought the Datasette sound to a wider audience, he submerged himself back in the electronic underground before without little fanfare or warning dropped a hundred track strong pick 'n' mix of 100 strong dubs written between and put into the binary title Offal (1999-2014) .
 

Moving to the present day and Shipwrec have done the world a favour by collating a seventeen track album, spread across two 12"s (and for the digital heads a bonus track to boot), Selected Offal features a stripped-back and finely tuned entry point into the vast project.
 

Compiled with suggestions of fans, unheard and alternate versions, Selected Offal goes a long way to showcasing how diverse a talent Datassette is. Whether it's producing fuzzy tape tekno on Hands Faces, washes of neo-classical ambience on Vocoder Mic Tap Loop Verb, cut and paste disco on Floozen B or providing a must-be-heard-to-be-believed cover of the John Maus classic Crucifix.
 

For many of you we imagine Datassette may well be a name unknown, but on Selected Offal his mixture of crisp production and well executed, yet cheeky swagger are sure to see those with a soft spot for Bochum Welt, Mood Hut, MNLTH, James Ferraro. Leyland Kirby & Chris Clark make some well deserved space on their record shelves and hard drives for him.
 

Datassette is quality!

I've been digesting the whole 100 track Offal release since it was released, there is plenty of good stuff on there.