{"product_id":"lifestyles-of-the-laptop-cafe","title":"Lifestyles Of The Laptop Cafe","description":"\u003cp\u003eDouble LP in paper inners, in 5mm outer sleeve with download card insert. Tucked away in the great depths of the Warp catalogue is this elegant, liquid heartache of a record. An album credited to the late James Stinson, one half of cult-Detroit techno unit (alongside Gerald Donald) Drexciya, Lifestyles... stands as one of the remarkable records of the genre. Stinson died a year after release, lending this already beautiful work endless resonance. Where the dystopian aqua-tronics of previous Drexciya were often jet-black, cold, brittle and abrasive this is a yearning soul music, played out down rain soaked streets, the buzzing lights of industry flickering in the darkness, the warm blue of a new day ready to break. This is a record where techno reached its raw, most emotive peak... Sustained pads paint minor-key melodies while electroid-vocals are buried deep in the hydrothermal mass of squelching bass-clusters and funky-filtered bleeps. At its skittering percussion core, a stripped back 808 tapestry, sequenced into myriad jazz-inflected shapes, a pulsing kick drum the snapping heartbeat, ticking hi-hats bursting from every angle. All this tingles with the ghosts of records past, of Kraftwerkian humanoids, of first-wave Detroit, of refracted Hancock and Ayres, but as Stinson intones on the fifth track, \u003ci\u003eLet Me Be What I Wanna Be\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLifestyles\u003c\/i\u003e is a creation all of its own special making, a sound that would inspire the latter day deep-house machinations of Omar S, Jus-Ed, Moodymann and influence – however indirectly - a wealth of current UK \/ US bass operators including Actress and Kyle Hall. More importantly it remains a beguiling epitaph to Stinson’s sadly distinguished life. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warp","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50417207705931,"sku":"1002060","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d3964774-b4ce-48ed-82f1-babc9588d270_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726721243","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/lifestyles-of-the-laptop-cafe","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}