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Voltage Control – Voltage Control 1990-1992 LP (Mannequin Records)

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Inspired by Front 242, Skinny Puppy and Clock DVA, Arno and Tibor were fellow students at the Center of Electronic Music (CEM) in Arnhem, Netherlands during the mid 80’s.

After getting a record deal with the Belgian Antler Subway, and started producing their first EP, originally meant as EBM. But since they were in the middle of proceeding, they took the chance to incorporate some of those influences in their first record, ‘Force D’Inquisition’, in 1990, which became one of the earliest Dutch house records.

Track A2 is the legendary ‘Apocalypse’, which was quite a hit at the time both in the EBM and acid scene, with gentlemen like Frankie Knuckles playing it in his sets.
Arno Peeters was later part of Random XS and Urban Electro and worked solo as Spasms on Djax-Up-Beats.

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releases July 5, 2024

Voltage Control were Arno Peeters and Tibor Fülöp.
All tracks originally released between 1990 and 1992 on Antler Records and licensed directly from Arno Peeters.

Remastered by Arno Peeters.
Graphic design by AA.
Photos by Jolanda Cleo Kempers.

In memory of Tibor Fülöp, 17-03-2010.

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Off and Gone – Dali’s Pillow Geiger’s Toilet (Map Music)

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Recently rescued from the dusty vault of DATs, this is the follow-up album to Off and Gone’s debut “Everest”, released on Harthouse worldwide in 1996.

Released now, in 2019, dedicated to Phil Western (RIP), who would be thrilled to see this collection unleashed into the world.

“This album and the yet unreleased Floatpoint material were written in parallel and constitute the last body of work Phil and I did together. After that our lives took different turns and we were each concerned with producing and releasing solo works. While we have always valued the tracks written in that period [spring and fall of ’96] once a few years passed they faded from memory and quietly waited on DAT tapes for the day of playback.
With the untimely passing of PW came the desire to expose the music we made back then, a concrete testimony of our joy of working together.”
Dan Handrabur, Bucharest 2019

Phil Western – The Escapist (Map Music)

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“The Escapist” was Map’s fourth CD release, Phil Western’s solo debut, and a genre-busting mind-bender designed to satisfy people whose musical tastes don’t fit in boxes.

Originally released on Map on CD in April 1998, and available on Phil’s Bandcamp page, we are honoured to have this album back home in the Map catalog, 26 years to the day after its first release. And also kinda cool is the fact that Phil was 26 when he wrote and produced this music.

To thank all of you who already have this in your collection, and to entice those of you wanting to possess it newly, we’ve added two very special bonus tracks that will be gifts for album buyers. From the upcoming special Phil Western tribute compilation I’m including my remix of the Melodium track “California”, the “Pastoral Psychedelicism Remix” (previously unreleased), and Phil’s remix of Cooldown’s “Absolute”, from their Map Music album “Ether”, released in 1999, and lovingly remastered by Martin “7D6” Granger.

The majority of the proceeds go to the fund for Phil’s daughter, Mora Western.