Ostgut Ton sublabel A-TON is releasing mid-90s material from the UK techno veteran Luke Slater’s The 7th Plain project, Chronicles II and Chronicles III, as well as a special edition vinyl boxset, coming out on the 14th of December.

A-TON launched back in 2016 with The 7th Plain’s Chronicles I, establishing itself as a platform for archive, ambient and art-related releases. This first eight-track compilation was split between classics from the albums My Yellow Wise Rug and The 4 Cornered Room on the one hand and previously unreleased tracks on the other, with the goal of providing a different, remastered framework for Slater’s work from the past.

Like its predecessor, Chronicles II is divided between previously released material from the aforementioned albums, as well as four unreleased classics such as “Silver Shinhook,” “Wand Star,” “I Think I Think Too Much” and “JDC.” In contrast, Chronicles III is made up solely of music from the General Production Recordings label catalogue and stylistically skews less toward percussive techno-funk and more toward free-form broken rhythms.

The vinyl boxset of 6×12″ LP, which includes Chronicles I – III, is also accompanied by an essay from Joe Muggs. All releases are available individually on CD, 2xLP and for the first time in digital formats.

The releases are available separately and as a boxset at A-TON Bandcamp.



Tracklist

1. Boundaries

2. Extra (7th Plain Remix)

3. Grace

4. Surface Bound

5. The Super 8

6. T Funk States

7. Slip 7 Sideways

8. Chords Are Dirty

9. Silver Shinhook

10. Astra Naut-E

11. Wand Star

12. Convex

13. I Think I Think Too Much

14. JDC

15. To Be Surreal

16. The Big Field

17. Time Melts

18. Reality Of Space

19. Excalibur’s Radar

20. Millentum

21. Lost

22. Think City

23. Shades Amaze

24. Seeing Sense