Remastered from the original tapes by Matt Colton.
After releasing Sabresonic, the Sabres of Paradise decided to give their sound a facelift. The trio of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner, and Gary Burns set aside the surprisingly straight-ahead techno sounds of their previous work and shot off into a variety of directions, adding trip-hop, speaker-rattling dub, spy themes, library music, and lopsided funk to the mix on Haunted Dancehall.
It’s a gritty, constantly surprising record that displays more of the genre-smashing appeal of Weatherall’s remix work and along the way invents noir techno. It started life as something of a concept album with liner notes by Irvine Welsh detailing the outlines of the story. Though the group replaced his work, the idea is still…
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