Emailed Unseen Worlds and a repress is on the way so don't feed the sharks.

jesus christ when did this get so expensive? just saw it in a shop a few months back

The same conclusions were reached here as were reached by Juan Atkins a good while later, and to outstanding effect. Here, Laurie Anderson pretty much intuits the whole structure of techno by herself, 6 years prior to Cybotron's first release. It is somewhat striking she gets so little attention even in retrospect. Beautiful throughout, her debut LP The Expanding Universe reveals plainly and simply the fact that Techno cannot be conceived of as other to women as if they didn't play a role in its emergence and later its subsequent forms. Through Laurie, we recognise Techno' emergence through a multiplicity of distinct origins. It didn't come from any one person, crew, scene, night city, but is derived collectively through shared artistic and cultural endeavour, and experimentation with machines often very demanding and foreign in nature. Laurie was unique in being among those who properly domesticated technology to her own ends: she bent the Groove Synthesiser into a shape that through the work of others such as Jeff Mills or Robert Hood on altogether different machines, would later come to be known as techno. Her work sits alongside pioneers like Chris Carter, Craig Leon, In Aeternam Vale, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, whose power of vision sat exactly in proportion enormity of scale at which some of the producers delivering over the same period.

wtf Laurie Anderson? thought that was a different Laurie... but who cares as long as you get your techno canon correct, right?

Does anyone know how many copies of this black vinyl repress were made?

Picked up the Reissue LP yesterday. The vinyl is black. Sounds nice! Was going to add to the release section, but not submitted anything before and a bit worried I'd mess it up.

It needs a further submission as the Black re-re-press comes with a further folk study which does not feature on the clear vinyl. the option to download Flac/Alac lossless, the complete CD tracklisting is worth a mention also. There is a full pdf with this with further info. A very comprehensive release

2xCD/ltdLP re_pressed on 21JAN13 + bonus on A side. Good Luck.

this is back out in the UK and available in stores. be quick