Ultramarine

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London and Essex-based UK duo Ian Cooper and Paul Hammond; formed in 1989. Cooper & Hammond were both former members of the band [a=A Primary Industry].

Ultramarine's early releases were issued on the Brussels-based label [l=Les Disques du Crépuscule] and by [l=Brainiak Records], a label affiliated to [l2481919], an early purveyor of regular House music nights in Soho, London. Their debut album [r=32318] was issued by Crépuscule in 1990. Their classic second album [r=201342] was initially released on Brainiak in 1991 and given a wider audience with the release of an expanded edition on [l=Rough Trade (UK)] in 1992. The album was neatly described by [a715566] in his book [i]Energy Flash[/i] as:

[i]Perhaps the first and best stab at that seeming contradiction-in-terms, pastoral techno... all sun-ripened, meandering lassitude and undulant dub-sway tempos... like acid-house suffused with the folky-jazzy ambience of the Canterbury scene.[/i]