Originally launched in 1994, UK artist Dave Clarke continues to revitalise his catalogue for a brand new era with the digital re-release of the seminal “Red 2”. This timeless EP slots into the center of a trilogy of genre-defining releases, highlighting a historic interval for digital music by connecting a brand new era of listeners with an plain pioneer of techno.
As a distinguished determine in techno and a daring ambassador for the style’s inherent futurism, Dave Clarke has lengthy been categorised as a real, expressive artist whose lasting musical profession combines a daring idiosyncratic ardour and technical capability, crashing via partitions of hesitancy with a passionate conviction.
Now launched by way of Skint Records, the revolutionary lead monitor “Wisdom To The Wise” transports us again to the occasions of razor-sharp membership weapons armed with spellbound rave sequences and packed-out kick drums. The title of the monitor is a message from Clarke to “those who know the distinction” and signifies the purity of the subcultures that techno paved the way in which for through the 90s. The latter monitor “Gonk” serves up a percussive shuffle detailed by an overlapping extraterrestrial electro-hook.
Compiling the digital re-releases of the whole ‘Red’ sequence, a singular boxset version of the ‘Archive One’ album shall be launched in 2024 – over 30 years after it first modified folks’s perceptions of what techno may very well be. The particular version boxset is now accessible to pre-order and shall be supported by a tour all through spring, with European dates visiting France, Spain, Germany, UK, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Ireland.
“Back in 1986, The Elect got here up with a monitor referred to as “I’m House” – in 86 not a lot was shifting for home music on the UK south coast, positive some golf equipment have been enjoying it, hats off to Chris Coco, Shem and so on, nevertheless it nonetheless was “secret sauce” and usually a half-hour jolly after soul and funk and hip hop. I don’t imagine I truly ever heard a DJ even play this monitor on the dancefloor both, however the lyrics and deepness of the monitor struck one thing inside me (it nonetheless does) and the lyric “Wisdom to the Wise” at all times stayed with me. Fast ahead to the tip of 1992 / starting of 1993, I had this monitor that had no title and the eureka second got here, the 2 simply fitted collectively hand in glove; the title meant to me “for the heads” “for those who know the distinction”. It was a distinct scene, nascent, on the peripheries of sub-culture, a wink wink with different heads. Red Two for me was a bookend from when home music like The Elect was for the “bizarre” folks, then bouncy castles and raves and cash took over, then membership tradition got here again and techno began to credibly flourish” – Dave Clarke
A maverick, a musician, a photographer and a person with a singular digital imaginative and prescient, Dave Clarke has nice instincts – and people singular instincts have saved him on the right musical path for over three many years straight. Championed early by the late John Peel who affectionately labelled him The Baron Of Techno, Dave Clarke has been making music of his personal since 1990, alongside the way in which collaborating with and remixing iconic artists comparable to Depeche Mode, The Chemical Brothers, Underworld and New Order to Fontaines D.C. Soft Moon, A Place To Bury Strangers, Gazelle Twin, The Amazing Snakeheads and Placebo.
By disposing of the established order virtues that music should be polished and ready, Dave Clarke is an underground-championing artist with rules that may’t be purchased or offered.
His unimaginable catalogue and profession cast a timeless pillar for the style of techno, early recordings that helped crack open a world for recent voices of digital music, and an enduring admiration amongst the scene’s new era of protagonists.
Pre OrderThe One Time Limited Edition Pressing Of Archive One And The Red Series thirtieth Anniversary Boxset.
Contains:
- 1 x Remastered Archive One Album
- 3 x Red Series Coloured Vinyl Singles
- 1 x Red Rare Coloured Vinyl Single
- 1 x Red Remixes Coloured Vinyl Single
- 16 Page Booklet with uncommon images, sleeve notes and a foreword by Dave Clarke
- 1 x Signed photograph print
Remixers embrace The Chemical Brothers, Umek, DJ Sneak, Surgeon, DJ Rush and Robert Hood. Pre-order here
Dave Clarke on Tour *denotes Special Red Set
twenty seventh Jan 2024 – L’Autre Canal, Nancy, France
2nd Feb 2024 – Infinity, Sintra, Portugal
tenth Feb 2024 – IBoat, Bordeaux, France
eleventh Feb 2024 – Le Sucre, Lyon, France*
seventeenth Feb 2024 – Fabrik, Madrid, Spain
1st March 2024 – Ulster Sports Club, Belfast, Northern Ireland*
2nd March 2024 – Electric Avenue, Waterford, Republic Of Ireland*
sixteenth March 2024 – Netto Arena, Szczecin, Poland
twenty ninth March 2024 – Wav, Liverpool, England*
thirtieth March 2024 – Cactus Club, Brugge, Belgium
thirteenth April 2024 – Fabric, London, England
twentieth April 2024 – Lenox Club, Luxembourg*
thirtieth April 2024 – Mayday, Dortmund, Germany
4th May 2024 – Tresor, Berlin, Germany*
14th June 2023 – Rex Club, Paris, France*
Dave Clarke – “Red 2” is out January 31st by way of Skint / BMG.
