Vladimir Ivkovic & Ivan Smagghe - IDMEMO: A Future Of Nostalgia - Vol. 1
"IDMEMO would not pretend to be a representative compendium of 90’s-00’s Intelligent Dance Music. It was not Vladimir Ivkovic & Ivan Smagghe’s point when they decided on the project. It is a very personal snapshot of a moment in time, when both of them were working in record shops, when they were listening to indie and electronic music. One can not stress enough the importance of this crossing of roads, pop kids getting through to the dancefloor via Aphex Twin and nerdy house heads dissolving their four to the floor into the futuristic world of Warp compilations.
The compilation unfolds in the loosest, the best way to make some kind of sense. There are some classics (Black Dog’s lysergic 'Psyl-Cosyin'), there are some rarities (that Zugzwang track), some tested late night floor melters (Reload remixing Slowdive) and some personal outlandish choices that strangely take their place (Spiritualized’s 'Anyway That You want Me-remix 3').
All in all, This is an anti-archive, a choice of tracks primarily lead by emotion, more pads than glitches,”intelligent” music depraved by that last half-pill at 6am rather than high-brow destructurations, Ivkovic & Smagghe hitting, as ever, at their own margins." - Above Board Projects
A1 - Cylob - Are We Not Men Who Live And DieA2 - Chapterhouse - Alpha Phase
B1 - I.F. - Kisy Loa
B2 - Abfahrt Hinwil - Tech 7
C1 - The Marcia Blaine School For Girls - Sometimes My Arms Bend Back
C2 - Replicant - Analiz
D1 - Slowdive - In Mind (Reload Remix - The 147 Take)
D2 - Spiritualized - Anyway That You Want Me 3