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Limited 2x12" vinyl & digital · Out 6 November 2026
88-92: It is What it Was
Ramjac Corporation, aka Paul Chivers, emerged from the UK’s late-’80s rave underground, performing live at parties like Sunrise, Energy, Back to the Future, Fun-da-Mental and Synergy. Building tracks with an Atari computer and an E-MU 12-bit sampler, turning severe technical limitations into raw, elastic club music, 88–92: It is What it Was gathers music born in bedrooms then tested in front of crowds at warehouse raves, while the culture was still inventing itself without boundaries, completely free.
Restored from the original floppy discs and mixed for release for the first time by Trevor Lancaster-Smith, with extended liner notes by Nick Halkes and artwork by Grant Fulton.
Read Ramjac’s interview on Rednetic →
Tracklist
- Love Me
- Back In Time
- 100 Hz
- Reefer
- That Delicious Taste
- That Delicious Dub
- Pure & Simple
- Food Of Love
- Destination Unknown
Liner notes: Nick Halkes · Artwork: Grant Fulton · Mixed by Trevor Lancaster-Smith
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Digi Stomp
These are the rich, deep Ramjac mixes produced by Paul Rip for ESP, mixed by Ian Tregoning at London’s Orinoco Studios in 1994. A single track from the session, Digispace, was released on Plink Plonk’s double album Parasols. The rest existed only as a double 10" dub plate, pressed for Andy Weatherall, and on the digital tape to which it was printed over thirty years ago—held as a prized sonic secret for decades by a select few.
Tracklist
- Digi Stomp
- Digi Dub
- Loordi
- Lordi Lordi
Written and produced by Paul Chivers · Engineered and mixed by Ian Tregoning · Produced by Paul Rip at Orinoco Studios, 1994
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In The Grow
Orphic Apparition is a new label born out of a transatlantic meeting of minds. Facilitated by a long, hedonistic party in one of present-day London’s ‘meanwhile use’ venues Grow Tottenham, Canadian producer Raf Reza and British acid house luminary Paul Chivers spent a precious day in the studio to record a 3 hour straight to DAT session before Reza's return to Canada. The result of this spontaneous yet intuitive collaboration blurs the lines between Chivers’ long-standing Ramjac Corporation alias and Reza’s genre-spanning approach to dub, breaks and house styles. Part of the early 90s rave scene and an important member of the blueprint-setting Irdial label, Ramjac locks heads with the self-professed ‘lazy music guy from Toronto’ to adapt their studio session into five separate mixdowns.
“Irdial legend Ramjac Corporation meets Toronto’s Raf Reza on a carousel of haunted electro-techno-house to initiate Orphic Apparition” — Boomkat
Tracklist
- In The Grow (Rotting Mix)
- In The Grow (Rotten Mix)
- In The Grow (Rahtted Mix)
- In The Grow (Swampy Dub)
- In The Grow (Rootless Dub)
Written by Paul Chivers & Raf Reza · Illustration: Isabella Johnston · Design: Oliver Kay · Words: Fergus “Yung Clarky” Clark · Mastering: Marco Pellegrino (AnalogCut)
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Live at The Brain 1990
An historical live recording at The Brain Club that captures the unique vibe and flow of a brand new life-changing musical era in 1990 London Soho. 45 minutes of ambient & acid house music live!
Includes liner notes by The Brain club co-owner Sean McLusky, writer ("Bass, Mids, Tops") and DJ Joe Muggs and original sleeve art by the other The Brain club co-owner Mark Wigan, like you were back there. For fans of ambient, acid house, and fucking brilliant live music!!
Tracklist
- The Irresistible Force vs Ramjac Corporation (45:34)
Mixmaster Morris (The Irresistible Force) · Paul Chivers (Ramjac Corporation) · Liner notes: Sean McLusky & Joe Muggs · Sleeve art: Mark Wigan
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Cameroon Massif!
Originally released on Irdial Discs in 1990, Cameroon Massif! was reissued by Emotional Rescue in 2018, bringing together the original Massive and Massing mixes with a live version recorded at The Brain in 2009.
“Both the "Massive" and "Massing" mixes are essential” — Juno
“a thrilling, prescient piece of work” — testpressing.org
Tracklist
- Cameroon Massif! (Massive Mix)
- Cameroon Massif! (Massing Mix)
- Cameroon Massif! (Live At The Brain ’09)
Written by Paul Chivers · Produced by Akin Fernandez and Paul Chivers