Reduction

Digital download, credits taken from YouTube. Blue album cover is the standard artwork, variants were shared as promotional material accompanying the reissue's announcement on Facebook, which is copied below for posterity: '"You are falling even deeper into the colour of a dream..." Restored today to all digital platforms worldwide - 2000's Reduction album. Choose from one of four cover colours: Red Summer, On Being Blue, Acid Yellow, Orange Juice. The Reduction of Claude Debussy is to The Seduction of Claude Debussy what The Tortoise And The Hare is to Moments in Love. Or That Was Close to Close (to The Edit). A refashioned remix album that is so far removed from the original source content that it becomes a release in its own right. The music itself was re/produced by Paul Morley and James Banbury and was the first in a trilogy of albums that also took in Matter as Image Of A Group, and Where The Night Goes as Infantjoy both of which appeared five years later in 2005. Listen: 1. Identity Crisis**** 2. Motive 3. (New York London Paris) Spleen* 4. Saluting The Point Of No Return 5. Man and Boy** 6. Information 7 And I placed my fingers on her eyes as though I were touching the silent controls of a TV set...*** * Dedicated to Don Delillo and Charles Baudelaire and containing traces of Beat Box ** Dedicated to Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud but they could equally be Ellen Degeneres and Anne Heche *** Dedicated to Luigi Rossolo's Art of Noises and Jean Baudrillard for the anticipation and interpretation. **** Split down the middle If there were words to this piece, they would consist of "Is that your final answer?". Reduction is a Definition Series edition from Zang Tuum Tumb, courtesy of The Dream Department (art: Philip Marshall, works: Ian Peel), with thanks to Paul Morley, James Banbury, Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, Lol Creme, JJ Jeczalik, Gary Langan, noone, The Image Of A Group, Knob, and The Metaphor Tops. What's next?'