Ultimae records » Products https://ultimae.com electronic music label, online record shop, mastering studio, music licensing Thu, 07 May 2026 13:02:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.28 Long Trax 2 https://ultimae.com/product/will-long-trax-2-smalltown-supersound-cd/ https://ultimae.com/product/will-long-trax-2-smalltown-supersound-cd/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:51:01 +0000 https://ultimae.com/?post_type=product&p=19459 As much as is said of our current times being new lows, where things have changed for the worse and we’re unsure of the future, it’s worth returning to study the past to understand how steadily low we remain. “Nothing’s changed,” says a younger Barack Obama in a sample for the opening track. Long Trax 2 is the second album from Will Long after his 2016 Long Trax debut on Comatonse Recordings. The album presents as an ongoing criticism of cultural stasis, conveyed via minimal synthesizers, sampler, and rhythm machine. Dancefloors are widely perceived by the masses as safe zones,[...]

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]]> As much as is said of our current times being new lows, where things have changed for the worse and we’re unsure of the future, it’s worth returning to study the past to understand how steadily low we remain. “Nothing’s changed,” says a younger Barack Obama in a sample for the opening track.

Long Trax 2 is the second album from Will Long after his 2016 Long Trax debut on Comatonse Recordings.

The album presents as an ongoing criticism of cultural stasis, conveyed via minimal synthesizers, sampler, and rhythm machine. Dancefloors are widely perceived by the masses as safe zones, but few can imagine how to apply notions of safety and equality to other aspects of society. We shouldn’t need clubs to hide from our fears and differences in the outside world. Looking ahead, we should look not so optimistically upon what we have accomplished, but with urgency and empathy upon what we haven’t.

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]]> For an album with a royal pedigree right there in its title, Prins Thomas‘ Principe del Norte is a record with nothing to prove. The shortest of its nine untitled tracks is nearly eight minutes long, and three run to 13 minutes or more. You don’t get the sense the track lengths stem from any sort of desire to grandstand; it just looks like Thomas didn’t much feel like editing himself. The whole album runs more than an hour and a half, beats halting and restarting, synths drifting willy-nilly over muted basslines, and arrangements wandering free as clouds. It is a vision of ambient music in bathrobe and slippers, slurping milk straight from the carton at the all-night grocery; it is The Dude of ambient.

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