After alarming interest with Oz Waves' resurrection Will I Dream, Andy Rantzen returns to Efficient Space with 1/66 - a collection of four dubs from his 1999/2000 archives.

Home recorded above a lawyer’s office and next door to a brothel, the retrospective is lead by the earth shattering digi stepper Rock Steady. Originally intended for an abandoned dub album, Rock Steady and Fantasy Dub were saved from the cutting room floor by Australian CD-only compilations on Creative Vibes and vital collective Clan Analogue, while Green River was never released. Now demanding wider appreciation, the dubs finally find union with Green Man’s New York hip hop/dancehall style, lifted from his second solo album The Blue Hour Vol. 3: Deep Blue.

Humbly excelling in all electronic forms, Rantzen helped guide techno-rave duo Itch-E & Scratch-E through the 90s with Paul Mac. Winning the inaugural Best Dance Release category at the 1995 Aria Awards, Mac thanked “all of Sydney's ecstasy dealers, without whom this award would not be possible,” while Rantzen stayed at home. The two would also operate incognito as Boo Boo & Mace and Screensaver, often collaborating on looney dubs with Sheriff Lindo - the master of seismic shocks down under.

Rantzen’s earliest work stretches back to Pelican Daughters, an ensemble who proliferated industrial-leaning ambient and tape loop experiments.

ANDY RANTZEN - 1/66 (ES005) OUT NOW

Digital steppas and dubwise oddities rescued from obscurity by Efficient Space, a reissue label from Noise In My Head boss Michael Cucyk.

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Andy Rantzen - Green River (STW Premiere)

Hip hop-inspired, slo-mo breaks from the dubbed-out Andy Ranzten retrospective on @noise-in-my-head offshoot, @efficientspace.

'1​/​66' is out October 27th on Efficient Space. 

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Premiere: Andy Rantzen – Green Man [Efficient Space]

From the original DATs of Andy Rantzen's abandoned dub album of 99/00. Eventually released on a Jeff Dread mix CD, it finally gets its deserved spotlight on the Efficient Space EP '1/66'

03 Andy Rantzen - Fantasy Dub 3:06 (ES005)

Originally recorded for an abandoned dub album, this demonic digi stepper eventually surfaced on the 2006 Clan Analogue compilation 'In Version'. Still rattling speakers today, it now appears on Efficient Space's collection of turn of the century Andy Rantzen dubs '1/66'

01 Andy Rantzen - Rock Steady 5:46 (ES005)

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