James Ruskin - Point 2

Label: Tresor – Tresor 145
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180g
Country: Germany
Released: Oct 28, 2019
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno

Tresor remaster and reissue James Ruskin's seminal album 'Point 2' featuring two tracks previously not cut onto vinyl.

First released in 2000, 'Point 2' marked a fine debut that entrenches the minimal sequences, utilitarian funk and eerie hypnosis found within Ruskin's body of work.

As Tresor's relationship with the UK sound grew stronger across the course of the '00s, it was James Ruskin, the label owner of Blueprint Records, who played a critical part in this. Throughout the trio of LPs released over that decade, inspirations of the sci-fi minimal Detroit sound lie abundant, rendered through corporeal slammers typical of the UK vein.

'Point 2' was the first of Ruskin's trilogy for Tresor, and brought a direct and uncompromising vibrancy to the fore, from the aquatic symphony featured on 'From Over The Edge' to the pinpoint gaze of 'Subject'. Gurning loops beat against alien samples, drained into refined abstractions of pure techno.

A1. Before The Calling
A2. If
A3. Subject
B1. Detached
B2. Version
C1. Eight 3
C2. Connected
D1. From Over The Edge
D2. Coda
D3. If (Loft Mix)