Slow Astro is a new mix series by Fracture which revisits the rich Astrophonica back catalogue and presents it in a new light. Starting with Volumes 1 & 2 featuring music from Sully, Client_03, Philip D Kick & DJ Earl.
"I have always been intrigued by playing audio back at different speeds. Be it speeding up breakbeats to make Jungle or slowing down pop music to make drawn out nostalgic atmospheres. Some of my first experiments with pitch were with my brother. We’d record ourselves onto cassette and use the hi speed dubbing feature to change the pitch of our voices. If you held the play button down half way it would cause the tape to play back at different speeds - mangling the audio.
Over the past year I became fascinated with playing on 7 inch records on 33. New rhythms, grooves and textures appear when you change the pitch of audio. It can totally alter the emotional quality of a piece of music you thought you knew so well - creating new artefacts with a familiar yet dreamlike quality. I started to wonder what the Astrophonica catalogue would sound like slowed down. So I made ‘Slow Astro’. Shout out DJ Screw…" - Fracture
| Volume 1 |
| 1 | DJ Earl, Fracture (2) - Statisfyee (Slow Mix) |
| 2 | Sully (5) - Crystal Cuts (Slow Mix) |
| 3 | Fracture & Neptune - Chal Dub (Slow Mix) |
| 4 | Fracture (2), Sam Binga - On Right Now (Slow Mix) |
| 5 | Client_03 - Hope Repeater (Slow Mix) |
| 6 | dgoHn - Sporks (Slow Mix) |
| 7 | Fracture & Neptune - Clissold Clissold (Machinedrum VIP) (Slow Mix) |
| 8 | MORESOUNDS, Fracture (2) - Dead & Bury (Slow Mix) |
| 9 | LMajor - Can't Do It (Slow Mix) |
| Volume 2 |
| 1 | Sully (5) - Qualia (Slow Mix) |
| 2 | Lewis James (2) - Shapeshifter (Slow Mix) |
| 3 | Fracture & Neptune - Forgotten Roads (Slow Mix) |
| 4 | Philip D Kick - For Real (Slow Mix) |
| 5 | Sully - Swandive (Slow Mix) |
| 6 | MORESOUNDS - Forward (Slow Mix) |
| 7 | Hyroglifics - Aura (Slow Mix) |
| 8 | Stray - Blink (Slow Mix) |
| 9 | Fracture (2) - All My Love (Slow Mix) |
