BLACK RAIN

A movement about movement, EDM has risen from the music of the underground to the front and center of the music world. The DJs and producers driving the progression have pushed the limits in things way beyond just their music; venues, festivals, videos and, of course, merch. Each week we track the newest, most interesting, top selling and highest grossing merchandise from EDMs top artists to give you the comprehensive rundown of what you need to know and see from <a href="https://www.merchbar.com/dance-electronic-edm/chet-faker/chet-faker-chet-beanie-black">Chet Faker beanies</a>, <a href="https://www.merchbar.com/dance-electronic-edm/dada-life/dada-life-flag">Dada Life flags</a>, <a href="https://www.merchbar.com/dance-electronic-edm/deadmau5">Deadmau5 hoodies</a> and <a href="https://www.merchbar.com/dance-electronic-edm/awolnation">AWOLNATION tank tops</a>. </br>

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<b>Track List</b><br>
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<li class="track">City Of Atomic Ghost</li>
<li class="track">Blood Rain &amp; Star Jellyii</li>
<li class="track">Computer Souls</li>
<li class="track">Black Mother Kali Gandaki</li>
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<b>Protection</b><br>
        Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.
        

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<b>Packaging</b><br>
        All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.</br></br></br>

BLACK RAIN COMPUTER SOUL Vinyl Record

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<b>Track List</b><br>
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">Dark Pool</li>
<li class="track">Profusion I</li>
<li class="track">Watering Hole</li>
<li class="track">Endourban</li>
<li class="track">Burst</li>
<li class="track">Xibalba Road Metamorph</li>
<li class="track">Data River</li>
<li class="track">Night In New Chiang Saen</li>
<li class="track">Protoplasm</li>
<li class="track">Profusion II: Fallofthehouseofagodofbiomechanics</li>
<li class="track">Who Will Save the Tiger?</li>
</ol>
<br/><br/>
<b>Protection</b><br>
        Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.
        

        <br/><br/>
<b>Packaging</b><br>
        All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.</br></br></br>

BLACK RAIN DARK POOL Vinyl Record

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<b>Track List</b><br>
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">No Alibis</li>
<li class="track">Bad Advice</li>
<li class="track">Running Lonely</li>
<li class="track">Save the Echoes</li>
<li class="track">Wide Open</li>
<li class="track">Just Go on</li>
<li class="track">Give Me Reasons</li>
<li class="track">Bleeding</li>
<li class="track">Diamonds in the Sand</li>
<li class="track">Busted</li>
<li class="track">Don't Say Good Night</li>
<li class="track">Star</li>
</ol>
        This is a new, unopened CD in its original packaging.</br>

BLACK RAIN AFTER THE STORM CD

This is a new, unopened CD in its original packaging.

BLACK RAIN HOW YOU LIKE IT CD

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<b>Track List</b><br>
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">Dark Pool</li>
<li class="track">Profusion</li>
<li class="track">Watering Hole</li>
<li class="track">Endourban</li>
<li class="track">Burst</li>
<li class="track">Xibalba Road Metamorph</li>
<li class="track">Data River</li>
<li class="track">Night in New Chiang Saen</li>
<li class="track">Protoplasm</li>
<li class="track">Profusion II (Fallofthebuseofagodofbiomechanical)</li>
<li class="track">Who Will Save the Tiger</li>
</ol>
        This is a new, unopened CD in its original packaging.</br>

BLACK RAIN DARK POOL CD

Dark Pool is the new studio album from Black Rain, the project’s first in 18 years. Produced in New York City by Stuart Argabright, Black Rain’s founder and figurehead, <em>Dark Pool</em> is a work of hard-edged sonic fiction rooted in cyberpunk's quintessential neo-<em>noir</em> cityscape/dataspace but projecting into a farther future of biotechnological advancement and alienation. Partly inspired by the writings of Philip K. Dick protégé K.W. Jeter (particularly 1996’s <em>Edge Of Human</em>, which picked up where Ridley Scott’s <em>Blade Runner</em> left off), and Paolo Bacigalupi’s 2009 novel <em>The Windup Girl</em>, a vision of 23rd century Thailand plagued by genetic and economic terrorism, <em>Dark Pool</em>’s humid dystopia is also acutely Ballardian in its vision of manmade and natural worlds encroaching upon each other: a vivid psychogeography of half-submerged high-rises and hidden jungle laboratories. Stuart Argabright first landed in New York in 1978. <br/><br/>By day, he worked as a landscape gardener for the upscale likes of Rock Hudson and Bob Dylan, while at night involving himself in all manner of subcultural activity – the reverberations of which are still being felt today. He co-founded seminal no wave minimalists Ike Yard (whose early 1980s work has been cited as an influence by the likes of Kode9, Young Echo and Silent Servant), collaborated with the late Rammellzee in futurist hip-hop outfit Death Comet Crew (recently reactivated for an LP on Powell's Diagonal label) and as Dominatrix scored a bona fide club hit with the downtown electro classic ‘The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight’ (1984). <br/><br/>Black Rain was revived in the wake of 2011’s <em>Now I’m Just A Number</em>’s release and Argabright has toured extensively under the name and last year released an EP of live recordings, <em>Protoplasm</em>, on BEB. Three of the EP’s four tracks appear here on <em>Dark Pool</em> in radically revised and expanded form: the stuttering ribofunk of ‘Endourban’ is now anchored by ominous string pads faintly redolent of Argabright’s labelmates Raime, while ‘Data River’ revisits the accelerated beat-stream of Black Rain’s 1996 album <em>Nanarchy</em>, and the low-slung ‘Protoplasm’ has evolved into a sprawling, syncopated techno epic - the sound of red dawn rising on an illegal replicant rave. <br/><br/>A further seven new productions feature. ‘Burst’, its title perhaps a nod to Sogo Ishii’s 1982 biker gang saga <em>Burst City</em>, harks back to the scrap-metal-banging brutalism of Black Rain mk.1; ‘Xibalba Road Metamorph’, the album's angry, anguished centrepiece, externalises the sadness and self-loathing of Jeter’s oppressed post-human workforce. ‘Night In New Chiang Saen’ reimagines dub as the viral product of one of AgriGen’s morally suspect scientific initiatives in <em>The Windup Girl</em>, before ‘Who Will Save The Tiger?’ calls upon spidery, Metalheadz-esque breakbeats and wailing guitar drones to summon a 23rd century Ark. <br/><br/>Vocals (on 'Profusion' and 'Profusion II') from Zoe Zanias (Keluar), and a brief spoken intervention from Sean Young (who of course played Rachel in <em>Blade Runner</em>) are simply the most audible manifestations of a dejected feminine presence that haunts the entire album. For all its textual references, <em>Dark Pool</em> is a visceral and straight-talking affair: its bodyhammer rhythms and brooding sound design require no explanation for their impact to be felt.<br/><br/>
<div>1. Dark Pool </div>
<div>2. Profusion I </div>
<div>3. Watering Hole </div>
<div>4. Endourban </div>
<div>5. Burst </div>
<div>6. Xibalba Road Metamorph </div>
<div>7. Data River </div>
<div>8. Night In New Chiang Saen </div>
<div>9. Protoplasm </div>
<div>10. Profusion II: Fallofthehouseofagodofbiomechanics </div>
<div>11. Who Will Save The Tiger?</div>

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