Store Selects 009 // Aphex Twin, Bibio & Dorian Concept, DJ Koze, Markus Guentner, Superpitcher
Store Selects returns for episode 009, filmed live at Inverted Audio Record Store in Peckham. Presented by Inverted Audio founder Tom Durston, this is a big one: 23 records spanning Warp reissues, Pampa, Mule Musiq and Kompakt catalogue, deep house, dub techno and a long run of ambient. As usual, everything here is on the shelves now.
Warp opens the episode. Aphex Twin’s Drukqs is back as a four-LP reissue, the sprawling 2001 double album that split critics on release and has long since settled into its reputation as a beautiful, divisive mess. Bibio & Dorian Concept’s debut collaboration Answers is an instrumental, texture-led record, passed back and forth between Wales and Austria. Broadcast’s The Noise Made By People returns on vinyl, with Trish Keenan’s cool vocals set against film noir, torch song and outer-space pop.
From there the episode moves to DJ Koze’s Pampa world. Adolf Noise’s Wo Die Rammelwolle Fliegt is a remastered reissue of his absurdist 2005 debut with a bonus 10". The triple-LP compilation DJ Koze Presents Pampa Vol. 1 gathers Roman Flügel, Mount Kimbie, Jamie xx, Gold Panda, Isolée, Lawrence and more.
The club-minded selection follows. Picture’s Yyyyyyyyy is clean dub techno from Danish producer Natal Zaks, repressed on P-Ertönen. Sven Tasnadi’s Explorer on Scissor and Thread is a personal return to deep and minimal house and dub techno. SAD Edit 01 is a vinyl-only set of lo-fi house edits of two Sade classics. Barker’s Debiasing EP returns on Ostgut Ton with percussion-free, hypnotic dancefloor tools. Lawrence’s Sorry Sun is a Smallville classic from 2011, newly repressed with cover art by Stefan Marx.
Kompakt and Cologne run through the middle of the episode. Markus Guentner’s In Moll returns as a 25th anniversary edition on Black Knoll Editions, remastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri, alongside Guentner’s original Regensburg 12" from 2000, the record that started Kompakt’s Pop Ambient story. Max Hytrek is represented twice: Soundtrek 003, limited to 100 vinyl copies, reworks the Kompakt canon, while Haspel Haze is a rugged minimal techno collaboration with Wolfgang Voigt on Erdgeschoss. Thomas Fehlmann’s Los Lagos is a dubbed-out double LP from 2018. Peter Grummich’s Frozen World is two sides of hypnotic sequencer trance, and the forthcoming Pop Ambient 2027 is the 27th edition of Kompakt’s annual compilation, arriving 4 December.
Axel Boman’s Le New Life is a wobbly, emotional double LP of deep house and Balearic drift, and the last release in Mule Musiq’s 15th anniversary series.
Four Superpitcher records follow. Two chapters of The Golden Ravedays are featured: chapter 2 is saxophone-laced downtempo, and chapter 9 goes underwater. Lush Life on Live at Robert Johnson pairs Corsican-inspired deep house with a ten-minute acid trip, and Sketch Of Japan on Mule Musiq is a tribute to folk singer Maki Asakawa.
Andrew Thomas’s Fearsome Jewel closes the episode, ten beatless, piano-flecked ambient pieces from New Zealand, released on Kompakt in 2003 and still among the finest in its catalogue.
