{"title":"Blank Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlank Mind is a music label that has been making waves in the industry since its inception. Founded by *a1566269, this label has quickly become known for its innovative and boundary-pushing releases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on electronic music, Blank Mind has carved out a niche for itself in the industry. The label prides itself on releasing music that pushes the boundaries of genre and explores new sonic territories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing an impressive roster of talented artists, including *artist1, *artist2, and *artist3, Blank Mind continues to release cutting-edge music that captivates listeners around the world. Whether you're a fan of experimental beats or intricate melodies, there's something for everyone on this label.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"silicon-2","title":"Silicon","description":"\u003cp\u003eRevealing a more expansive and reflective dimension to his sound, Tammo Hesselink produces a varied set of deep tools on Blank Mind’s eighteenth release. Tammo’s sound-design is crisp, unique and organic - built with an instinctive sense created from personally recorded percussive recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Silicon' is a lethal masterstroke in propulsive minimalism, bridging between broken styles and fluid minimalism, and has already featured across clubs and festivals this summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst 'BBR', 'Lesssim' and 'First Supposed' are waking-dream like psychedelic trips. The experimentation concludes with blinding down-tempo roller 'There is One Thing'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blank Mind","offers":[{"title":"12\"","offer_id":50406201164107,"sku":"2001092","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Silicon_-_EP_22f5491d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726584437"},{"product_id":"psychotronic-ep","title":"Psychotronic EP","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The doors are where the windows should be, and the windows are where the doors should be”. If you had been in one of the more open minded all night raves in the early 90s you are likely more than familiar with Earth Leakage Trip’s \u003ci\u003eNo Idea\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou could write several pages about the \u003ci\u003ePsychotronic EP \u003c\/i\u003eand still not nail it as well as Discogs user covert_operative's description of 'urban, British psychedelic music.' The Acid House narrative is all about ecstasy, but for many, especially outside of London, there was a lot of LSD involved. Things were edgier, too, with parties in derelict, liminal spaces. By the time this record came out in 1991, the rave was properly diverging from its house music beginnings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Psychotronic EP was the first release on the legendary Moving Shadow label. Its lead track 'No Idea' is both the perfect entry point to the catalogue and something of an outlier. Neil Sanford had been writing music for a few years before playing some demos to Rob Playford in his car outside a nightclub in Wood Green. Simon Carter got involved, and the pair went to Playford's studio to manifest the madness they'd been sketching with rudimentary gear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'No Idea's use of samples was wholly inspired and far more surreal than so many of the dark-side tracks that were to follow it. A friend of Neil's had given him a record called 'Happy Monsters' and the lead track, 'Adventures in the Land of Ooog,' lent the unforgettable children's vocals. Neil initially had his doubts. Had they gone too far? However, while working on the track, Rob Playford's girlfriend ran in shouting, \"you HAVE to use that!\" And so it came to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a footnote, the track did prove to be strong medicine, with at least one documented account of a promoter having to be talked down by his friends after hearing it when psychedelically altered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Psychotronic EP is a truly visionary piece of work, standing poised on the edge of the rave's burgeoning future and entirely outside it. As such, it's never not been a cool record, as appealing to lysergic adventurers as it is to house heads, hardcore ravers, or experimental music pioneers. 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His first fully- fledged EP is the result of a mission to find balance between warmth and weirdness, structure and disorder; resulting in dripping, humid tracks with presence and a subtlety that holds sway well beyond the edge of the dancefloor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the crisp percussion, and elastikated synths that form ‘Coiled up’ to the furtive corridors of dubby drums and space of ‘Precise device’, there’s a staggering level of detail at work in ojo’s microcosms. Funkiness abounds in the accents on the grooves and the garnishes which quiver in and out, and quite\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoften you’ll hear motifs which call to mind something classic, but rendered wholly new. Take the steppas impressions drizzled into dislocated soundsystem flambé ‘Skip top’ on the B2 - a prime example of how to trigger a dopamine response without repeating someone else’s trick.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blank Mind","offers":[{"title":"12\"","offer_id":50529996570955,"sku":"2013116","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a1274060423_10_041f1b3d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728069960"},{"product_id":"lost-paradise-blissed-out-breakbeat-hardcore-1991-94","title":"Lost Paradise: Blissed OutBreakbeat Hardcore 1991-94","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith an intrigue for a particular niche of old UK hardcore which takes cues from Sheffield bleep ambience, heady rave futurism and soft, almost new age synth pads, Blank Mind presents ‘Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Hardcore 91-94’. Though the records gathered for the compilation span a short three-year period and bridge the gap between scenes, the collection manages to find a sweet spot where the influence of Warp’s Artificial Intelligence, back room chill out sonics and the nascent jungle boom meet with elements of Italian piano house and slower breakbeat cuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpting to focus on atmosphere to highlight shared connections; in this case the duality of often serene and calming soundscapes with frenzied breaks and bass (see Hedgehog Affair’s ‘Parameters’ and Luxury’s ‘Twirl’ respectively); Lost Paradise is a formidable collection of tracks plucked from a thriving time for British dance music experimentation. The general themes of ascension and escapism channelled through digital samplers are also inescapably linked to a turbulent time in politics, beginning in the post-Thatcher years and culminating in the year the harshest anti-rave Criminal Justice Act came into force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInitially building the compilation around DJ Mayhem’s track ‘Inesse’, Blank Mind label founder Sam Purcell and Amsterdam based producer Tammo Hesselink began a process of swapping favourites and deep cuts to spread across this 2x12” doublepack. The compilation avoids any obvious centrepieces through masterful sequencing, allowing for moments of refrain and tempo changes in a way that helps add to their overall vision of what this music is and can be; “We wanted to frame hardcore in a different light, looking at this idea of ecstasy through the traditional meaning of the word and exploring that symbolism”. 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