riga-the 1:2:3:4 karuan remix
Langoth
12″ Single, 2003
This is a gem I found in the abandoned promo crate at Giant Step during my first month working there. I don’t know a thing about it…and I sort of don’t want to. The record jacket seems purposely slim on information and it wasn’t until just now, as I was preparing to write this post that I realized that “Sunshine Enterprises,” the label that put it out, actually does have a website, listed in very fine print below the bar code on the back of the sleeve. Below that it says, “let the sunshine in…the club and music network, straight out of vienna.” They have apparently put out about 45 12″s, although…they are not listed in numeric order on their site, half of them are not listed, and there is no reference to this one.
I’m sure the perceived mystery of the origin of this song is better than its actual story. It’s a cinematic, dark, lonely, late night, moody masterpiece and I’m sure a large part of it was made by some guy in Vienna sitting in front of his laptop…not that there’s anything wrong with that, as that is pretty much what I’m doing right now, minus the space-and-time transcendent results.
>> songs are available for two weeks [8.3 MB]
