Tune of the Week: Ultramarine

The early 90s were heady times for rave culture. On both sides of the Atlantic folks were getting down to the burgeoning electronic sounds until the early morning, sometimes in dusty warehouse spaces, sometimes in fields and farms. The words of Terrance McKenna reverberated in the space between the beats. Ultramarine, a production duo from Essex, England, created a kind of pastoral electronic music. Similar to the melodic tunage of club and rave favorites 808 State and featuring the tools of the trade: funky breakbeats, arpeggiated synths and vocal samples, their songs sound wholly of their time, however Ultramarine’s music recreates the feeling of having been dancing all night and witnessing a new day dawning.