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2022 reissue, 12″, Transmigration.
It was probably only a matter of time before Drum Club records started to get the reissue treatment – after all, Charlie Hall and Lol Hammond did a brilliant job blurring the boundaries between tribal, techno, ambient, psychedelic trance and progressive house during the first half of the 90s. Originally released on Youth’s Butterfly Records imprint in 1994, ‘Illuminated’ is one of their most celebrated singles – a gorgeous, sunrise-ready affair that builds from a touchy-feely ambient opening to extra-percussive, trance-inducing brilliance over the course of nine mesmerising minutes. Along the way, there are operatic vocal samples, thumping kick-drums and hallucinatory electronic sequences. Over on side B you’ll find original flip-side ‘Untitled’, a chunk of surging psychedelic techno that twists and turns for nigh on 13 minutes. – Juno
