Out on 2x12" + digital: 24/09/2021
Get the record: https://blue.bandcamp.com/album/the-path-of-least-resistance-meets-the-point-of-no-return

28 years ago Chris Mann and Paul Darking released their debut EP on Andrew Weatherall’s (RIP) Sabres Of Paradise. A year later another EP came out on the same imprint, followed by two albums on Weatherall’s label Emissions Audio Output and a bunch of EP’s on Emissions’ sublabels. Two more albums saw the light of day on Iris Light Records, but the start of the new millennium brought a stop to the creative output of the production duo known as Blue. 

Souvenirs From Imaginary Cities is extremely proud to present The Path Of Least Resistance Meets The Point Of No Return, an album collecting a coherent set of tracks made between 1997 and 2001, carefully saved on DAT-tapes. Recorded as building blocks of an ambient album that was never wrapped up at the time, today Mann and Darking stepped back into the studio to complete a story that has been left untold for so many years. Using in some occasions various mixes of the same track laid out over each other to come to its conclusive version, the final result is breathtaking and surprisingly coherent. The ideas had clearly always been there, it only required the right time / a point of no return to put them all together.

Blue - The Path Of Least Resistance Meets The Point Of No Return

Out on 2x12" + digital: 24/09/2021
Pre-order: https://souvenirsfromimaginarycities.bandcamp.com/

28 years ago Chris Mann and Paul Darking released their debut EP on Andrew Weatherall’s (RIP) Sabres Of Paradise. A year later another EP came out on the same imprint, followed by two albums on Weatherall’s label Emissions Audio Output and a bunch of EP’s on Emissions’ sublabels. Two more albums saw the light of day on Iris Light Records, but the start of the new millennium brought a stop to the creative output of the production duo known as Blue. 

Souvenirs From Imaginary Cities is extremely proud to present The Path Of Least Resistance Meets The Point Of No Return, an album collecting a coherent set of tracks made between 1997 and 2001, carefully saved on DAT-tapes. Recorded as building blocks of an ambient album that was never wrapped up at the time, today Mann and Darking stepped back into the studio to complete a story that has been left untold for so many years. Using in some occasions various mixes of the same track laid out over each other to come to its conclusive version, the final result is breathtaking and surprisingly coherent. The ideas had clearly always been there, it only required the right time / a point of no return to put them all together.

Synthetic Masculine (2:16)

Design And Desire (5:09)

Crystalline Form (8:23)

Into The Shadows (7:51)

She Found The Colours (9:50)

King Of The Witches (3:32)

Ava X (11:35)

Just as the perpetual motion of fictitious spaces and times, Souvenirs From Imaginary Cities is an amorphous and hazy musical territory. The label’s identity has roots in places we’ve never been and echoes from a futuristic past, when aerial photography was still an artform untouched by search engine capitalists.    

Uptempo electronic music, slow burning rhythms, mesmerizing tunes emphasizing tone and atmosphere, from computer incantations to human percussion in its rudest form, it’s a soundtrack leaving listeners puzzled and undecided. At times suited for brain orgies, at others designed for dancefloors in control of brave DJs exploring unmapped territories. Enter our skylab at the 51st floor metaphor, take a seat, sit back, enjoy the view and switch the sound system on. 

Souvenirs From Imaginary Cities was founded by Kong DJ and Hill Men in 2020 in Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium.