Slip In and Out Of Phenomenon

Triple vinyl set repressed. Domino Records release a comprehensive retrospective of seminal New York band Liquid Liquid. Orbiting around a core configuration of drums, bass, marimba and percussion, Sal Principato's voice incanted and chanted. As well as an intensity to the grooves that is very much of its time - you can hear the group reaching for every note and beat - Liquid Liquid were locked together by a sticky looseness that is as head-noddingly infectious now as it must have been desirously strange at the time. The classic EP's are included here amongst 4 long lost studio recordings. Today Liquid Liquid's legacy is everywhere. Glasgow's Optimo is named after a track on this album, a piece of music any DJ would kill to get their hands on as its skitters and twitches its way across the dancefloor. Fellow NYC residents DFA resurrected the uptight downtown funk of Liquid Liquid and contemporaries ESG in their early productions and edits, whilst today's vogue for live instruments in 'Balearock' Italo and electro club tracks means Liquid Liquid's way of doing things has come full circle.