Description
2025 reissue, 12″, Clone Aqualung Series. Brown/black marbled vinyl.
Given that Warp has finally bowed to pressure and reissued James Stinson’s sole album under The Other People Place guise (2001’s peerless Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe), there was an inevitability about this 12″ getting the re-press treatment. It first came out on Clone back in 2002, and paired a fine Stinson solo effort with a rare outing for DJ Stingray as Mystic Tribe A.I. Stinson’s “Sorrow & A Cup of Joe” is a thing of rare beauty: a spacey, 4/4 electro cut blessed with bubbly electronics, alien chord progressions, heavy sub-bass and a fluttering, melancholic vocal sample. On the flip, Stingray’s “Telepathic Production” is a dreamy chunk of outer space warmth driven by chunky hip-hop breakbeats and an undulating bassline.
