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WHIRL

by UNE

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  • Limited Edition 4 Panel Digipak CD + 12 page booklet
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Gatefold CD of new album 'Whirl' with 12 page booklet featuring complete lyrics and the story behind each track as detailed by UNE's Mark Radcliffe. Cover artwork and design by Kevin 'DJ Food' Foakes.

    Catalogue no: SOOC CD3

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  • 2x CD Bundle Deal: Whirl + Controlled Sparks
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    For a value added deal, grab both our current CDs, SOOC CD2 and SOOC CD3, and save on combined postage into the bargain!

    Booklets included as standard. A download code for Controlled Sparks will be sent on to you.

    Includes unlimited streaming of WHIRL via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Limited Edition of 4 Whirl CD + Spomenik Splatter Vinyl bundle
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    A chance to grab one of the 4 remaining copies of UNE"s album Spomenik on splatter vinyl + current album Whirl on CD for a value added price.

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MOLENGANG 06:51
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MERCURY 05:43
3.
DERVISH 06:32
4.
TWISTED 06:09
5.
COPERNICUS 05:24
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VELO 07:53
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about

Broadcaster and cultural weathervane Mark Radcliffe re-teams with ex-Hacienda alumnus Paul S Langley for dizzyingly inventive album ‘Whirl’...

For the follow up to their sold-out 2021 album ‘Spomenik’, also on Spun Out Of Control, Mark Radcliffe’s electronic duo UNE, the continuing collaboration with electronic boffin and beat-maker Paul S Langley, have taken circular motion as their theme. New album Whirl has a concise six tracks that each play like extended dance mixes, bleeding into one another like a deejay set.

Endlessly inventive, tracks include Twisted, inspired by the anthropomorphic-like names we now give major storms; taking this to its logical conclusion and having a hurricane apologise for the havoc it’s causing. 

Dervish is inspired by the Sufi whirling dervishes and their meditation in perpetual motion; with one hand directed to the heavens and the other to earth, channeling divine energy. Copernicus is about the astronomer and polymath who laid down the theory that the earth went round the sun and not the other way round. Molengang meanwhile is the Dutch word for a collection of windmills. It also gives a nod to Pete Townsend’s windmill-like guitar arm and Windy Miller’s musical accompaniment in the classic children’s show ‘Camberwick Green’.

With Mercury being a musical tribute to the planet, the album closes with the pumping Underworld-like banger Velo, inspired by a trip to see Kraftwerk play the Velodrome at the Manchester International Festival, as the GB Olympic team cycled around the track.

Released onSpun Out Of Control as a beautiful limited edition 4-panel digipak CD with 12 page illustrative booklet, the artwork for Whirlis by Kevin ‘DJ Food’ Foakes under his Openmind alias, with album mastering by Antony Ryan.

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released April 15, 2023

Performed and produced by Mark Radcliffe and Paul S Langley.

Released on Spun Out Of Control 2023.

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