{"title":"Reducer","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"nada-nuevo","title":"Nada Nuevo","description":"\u003cp\u003e“This cassette is a re release of a 2 track cassette Reducer gave away to the 1st 23 punters through the door at our 2nd gig in 1985.\u003cbr\u003eWe have added 2 other tracks from the same recording session because we are lovely people who wish to share enlightenment.\u003cbr\u003eOther than that this cassette appears as it did back then.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the beginning of Reducer we had no equipment of our own, so used what was available in the “back room” 4 track cassette recording home studios, we could just afford.\u003cbr\u003eThese 4 tracks are the first ever recorded by Reducer – the then 3 members all playing the same synthesizer at the same time whilst tape loops ran alongside, and\/or one of us playing bells \u0026amp; flutes, whilst the other two played the synth, all tracks are recorded live with no overdubs.\u003cbr\u003eThis simple but extremely effective way of getting an un rehearsed spontaneity into our work proved to us we had an understanding \u0026amp; empathy that would go on to become the fully fledged Reducer.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bokeh Versions","offers":[{"title":"Red Tape","offer_id":50446320206155,"sku":"1148511","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/91575eae-f701-4544-934a-566d168f4717_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727057406"},{"product_id":"reducer","title":"Reducer","description":"\u003cp\u003eCatching up with their oral history online is eye opening. Tales of the Reducer Universal Soundsystem, toasting about Alastair Crowley over classic riddims, blues dances, early (UK) explorations in body modification, posters by Alan Moore. Sounds like you had to be there…..\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePut simply: never has there been a collision of reggae-anything and punk that’s sounded quite this fun (Alien Sex Fiend though…..).\u003cbr\u003eImagine if Killing Joke had ever cracked a smile? Or if they’d been invested enough in the anti-babylon teet they sucked to actually run a sound and toast on the mic like an occult Martin Campbell. Reducer were the realest ones – fame never found them, cos they didn’t want it anyway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere’s some many what if’s bundled into this record that it’s not even worth getting started. The message is clear: REDUCER IS NOW, with all the passion of yesterday, brand new from the 80s they say….\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll over this disc the band are bursting with Northampton wideboy swagger in attack mode – it’s stick and poke Yellowman standing on stage in front of soaring sheet-metal guitars inna Keith Leven styleeee ‘I USED TO LOOOOOVE HERE BUT NOW I ONLY CRAWL TO HERRRRRR’ yelped inna anarcho-crust fury over rumbling riffing bass. Sweet joyous rambunctious beltane noise on a Sleng Teng riddim shouting down all the reggae collectors who think they have it all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you have even the vaguest interest in post-punk, industrial, dub, reggae, the cosmos, life, living, eating, breathing, dancing then the universe has brought you to this page and everything in your world is about to be right again. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bokeh Versions","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50446324040011,"sku":"1131164","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0b82ba69-9704-45d7-b128-e6ea20ef43a6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727057517"},{"product_id":"sleng-teng-86-discomix-version","title":"Sleng Teng ('86 Discomix Version)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArchival Reducer, industrial strength sleng teng from 1986 and 1987. This discomix version of Sleng Teng was recorded before Rich joined the band and thus has a Snake only vocal, and features a keyboard bass and vocal over dubs - which is the only time overdubs were ever used on a Reducer track.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSensaround. Was recorded during a \"break\" in recording of other material and was written spontaneously and played just once, as it features only Rich on vocal, it makes a good balance to the Snake only track. It was never performed live.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bokeh Versions","offers":[{"title":"12\" - White","offer_id":53052321923403,"sku":"R9385-3654","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/09ea6c6f-871e-1e8a-0dcf-85925486b61f.jpg?v=1753804082"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/reducer.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}