suitably autumnal
2009-10-13 by Hal BerstramBeaumont Hannant – Mind Colours
Many apologies for chronic lack of postings over the last few months – been totally, completely hectic, but starting to come out of it now. Here’s an ambient effort with a rather autumnal feel from Beaumont Hannant, the greatest ambient techno artist to have also managed indie rockers Shed Seven.
No, that’s damning with faint praise – Basic Data Manipulation (which Double K has posted from before I think) and the 2x double LP release Texturology I & II, in 1994, were all classics.
Both Texturology LPs came in the same design sleeve with identical inner sleeves but slightly different coloured outer sleeve. They are all sadly now unavailable. The vinyl on this cut is showing its age but what can you do?
With respect going out to Pip from (the sadly long gone) Green River Records in Oxford who sold me this and many other classic slabs of ambient techno when I should really have been revising for my final exams…
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- discogs page for 'Texturology I'
- Good but pricey 2nd hand supplies here
- discogs page for 'Texturology II'
- The other instalment in the Guns'n'Roses-style simultaneous double double LP release. Fortunately does not contain a cover version of 'November Rain'
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I have the version of Texturology with the gold letters on the front. I only found out a couple of years ago that there was a different version with completely different tracks.
Yeah – it sure was a weird one. I think version "II" (the one which didn't have this track on) was slightly inferior to version "I" but there wasn't much in it.
I often wonder why Hannant didn't spread the two releases out a bit more. He actually released yet another LP that year ('94) which was called 'Sculptured' and was much more varied, going from experimental techno to indie rock. Very odd and a bit too eclectic for its own good, probably. I think he retired from music soon after that.