Neuromancer, by Black Rain

Neuromancer

by Black Rain

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huntablesurplus Arigato! As a regular re-reader of the Sprawl trilogy (and owner of Black Rain's discarded soundtrack for Johnny Mnemonic), I am sheepish to admit I didn't know this even existed until now. I can't think of a better way to have learned of it.

Fin Squandrago All these years later, it's pretty cool to hear this stuff on its own... without even the slightest trace of Bono or the Edge.

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1.	Title Entrance 00:13	buy track
2.	Ninsei 04:04	buy track
3.	City Blur into Corporate Geisha 03:00	buy track
4.	Sammy's 02:53	buy track
5.	Wintermute 02:37	buy track
6.	Blurred People AKA Urban Camouflage 01:29	buy track
7.	Black Clinics Of Chiba 05:06	buy track
8.	Tokyo Night City 06:49	buy track
9.	Biotechno 04:10	buy track
10.	Sense Net 00:13	buy track
11.	Three Notes 01:58	buy track
12.	Straylight Cuckoo 01:36	buy track
13.	Neuromancer 03:50	buy track
14.	Free Side 01:09	buy track
15.	Head Music 02:28	buy track
16.	Ninsei Outro 04:32	buy track

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From Lawrence English
It’s hard to imagine that this year William Gibson’s Neuromancer celebrates its 40th anniversary. Having recently re-read the book for the first time in a great many years, the world building Gibson undertook in that text and the lingering cultural spectres he conjured, feel ever so evocative of moments of our contemporary lived experience. The books continued cultural resonance has resolved in a way that captured a future reading of an, at that time of its release, unknown internet era. It was an era of promise, and imagination, of speculative hope and down right uneasiness in equal parts.

In 1994, as the books 10th anniversary was on hand, New York duo Black Rain were commissioned to make a soundtrack to the audio book version of Neuromancer. Read by the author himself, this document, originally publish on a series of cassettes, would go on to be recognised as a unique glimpse into Gibson’s sensing of the characters and places that make up the Neuromancer zone.

Following a period of work as an expanded collective, Stuart Argabright and Shinichi Shimokawa, the two core members of Black Rain, decided to strip back their unit largely to a duet format. Their focus became more engaged around studio practice, and it was this refocusing that was ultimately serendipitous. As they started work on Neuromancer a number of new approaches and techniques emerged and with them came a new sonic language the pair had only imagined previously.

The audio book was a huge success and the soundtrack too was recognised for its brooding and post-industrial electronic grind. Since that time however, the recordings have largely remained in obscurity. While a couple of the pieces have surfaced in various editions including an excellent compilation by Blackest Ever Black, the entire suite of pieces has remained unpublished until this moment.

Working off the original master tapes, this edition (like the book), folds and morphs over itself in an episodic stratification. Pieces emerge, like strange architecture, from one another forming a sonic environment that feels almost tangible. I spent many weeks working on these tapes and also on the connections between the pieces. In collaboration with Stuart, our joint aim was to create a version of the soundtrack that speaks to the very atmosphere of the text itself. It’s a delight to share this collection of work for the first time.

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released November 8, 2024

All music by Stuart Argabright with Shinichi Shimokawa at his Studio on Avenue B +
With Steve Breck at Synthe Studios

Collage and Post production by Lawrence English at Negative Space.
Design by T.Pakioufakis

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