One of the most significant living figures in contemporary electronic music.
I wouldn’t hesitate to call Robin Storey one of the most significant living figures in contemporary electronic music, both as a past member of Zoviet France and current solo artist Rapoon. If you enjoy the latter in particular, you will want to have these well-curated sets. Neatly packaged collections of Rapoon’s hardest-to-find work are welcome among the welter of ridiculously unnecessary b-sides and rarities many other labels insist on compiling in the name of far lesser artists.
Seeds in the Tide: Volume 02 continues the Zoharum label’s deep Rapoonology of “extremely rare, unreleased or compilation tracks” with work from the first four years of the new millennium, including the excellent, out-of-print Pell Mell EP. The entire second disc is dedicated to a live, 75-minute performance released as a cassette tape in a run of only one hundred, Live at Klanggalerie in Vienna. Given its format and tiny edition, odds are small that you’ve heard it but huge that you would like to, if you were first entranced by albums like Raising Earthly Spirits, Easterly 6 or 7 and The Fires of the Borderlands, to name a handful. It’s a true tour de force.
Seeds in the Tide: Volume 02 is available on Zoharum.
