On the occasion of Ghostly International's 25th Anniversary, here is a special Blue & Purple marble vinyl repressing of Shigeto's 2010 debut LP, Full Circle.The sounds on Full Circle come from four years of obsessive field recording and collaboration. Saginaw brought his Tascam mini-recorder with him everywhere, capturing the "glasses, chains, breathing, children, family meals, monks singing in cathedrals, walks in the south of France, and good friends offering their musical skill" that would all find homes in the record's compositional nooks and crannies. As a result of Saginaw's constant documentation, the songs on Full Circle play like chapters in an ongoing story-as in "Escape from the Incubator", whose initial rhythmic claustrophobia opens up into a boom-clap nocturnal chase, or "French Kiss Power Up", whose romantic digital strut gives way to discord and fragmentation as the waves of synthesizer give way to a shaky, neurotic coda. Full Circle is framed by the "Ann Arbor" diptych, a pair of beat suites named after Saginaw's hometown (one featuring a sample of Detroit MC SelfSays), all double-thick synths and triple-strength kick drums. Saginaw plays the majority of his rhythms by hand, and Full Circle's consistently deep pocket is the record's secret weapon, thumping and breathing like a living being.

Tracklist:

Ann Arbor Part 1
Escape from the Incubator
Relentless Drag
So So Lovely
Sky of the Revolution
Brown Eyed Girl
French Kiss Power Up
Ann Arbor Part 2
Children at Midnight
Look at All the Smiling Faces ^1.11

UPC: 804297812953
Label: Ghostly Int'l
Release Date: 8.10.10
Format: Vinyl

Shigeto - Full Circle (Ghostly 25 Year Anniversary Edition) - (Blue & Purple Marble Vinyl LP)