URBAN GAMELAN

* LTM is proud to announce a series of expanded reissues on CD and download by seminal post-punk group 23 Skidoo. * Initially active between 1979 and 1987, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Singles include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include Seven Songs, The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan. In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain hugely influential. * Originally released on Illuminated Records in August 1984, the album Urban Gamelan consolidated Skidoo~Rs position as supreme avant-gardists with uncommon commercial nous. 'Coup thundered over the horizon earlier this year. A mighty 45, it's a vinyl TV cop show car chase driven by Sketch Martin's bass, with Aswad's horn section blazing away in hot pursuit' (NME, 1984); 'Skidoo allowed black America back in. And they let the rest of the world get a look in, too.' (Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up & Start Again, 2005) * Digitally remastered, this extended CD features three bonus tracks including the original 12" single mixes of Language and the mighty Coup, the latter oddly similar to the 1997 smash by the Chemical Brothers, Block Rockin' Beats. The booklet also features a detailed history of the elusive group, with contributions from Skidoo members past and present.