Reload - A Collection Of Short Stories FLAC download

Some 25 years on, this remains a beautiful, sublime and timeless piece of work. I was very lucky to find a sealed copy a few years ago, which is now a treasured part of my collection, having only previously owned a CDr copy. There are a few comments on this page about a repress and on balance I probably agree - if it were to be done, then it should be done over 3 x LP, because I feel that on the inside tracks of the 2 x LP, there is a reduction in sound level / quality which would be my only crticism of the original version.In any case: masterpiece, classic, timeless - no amount of adjectives really do this justice - the music speaks for itself.

Absolutely dumbfounded that this record has not been reissued since a late 1990s cd reissue. Please, please reissue on vinyl.

REPRESS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

As others have noted, excellent electronic album. The one thing I'd like to clarify is that several mention the stories in the booklet - swk24 claims "the booklet of stories is not that necessary" while spa5tik0lonz notes "the short stories fit perfectly with each track" though it's unclear just how this is meant. Regardless, the latter is the correct statement. Here is why:The booklet starts by stating this is a work of "duo-sensory fiction." What this means (I figured this out when I started to wonder..."What if you try to read the booklet exactly along with the music?") is that there are cues in the text that line up with samples/events in the songs. At first it seems like it's working, then not, but as you adjust your reading pace you will realize the entire booklet matches the entire CD. It's incredible. Really one of the most amazing works I'm aware of once this is taken into consideration (and it's already one of the best electronic albums ever made!).

Totally agree. I remember playing this (on vinyl) when I first got it and reading the booklet while listening to the tracks. Incredible stuff. Sadly, I've long since lost the booklet. But it's still a wonderful album.

I cannot for a single moment fathom why I sold my copy of this many many years ago.I still have it on CD but it's not the same as vinyl + the bookletWhy?... :(

One of the best albums ever made.jealously guarded.A2 Peschi (masterpiece).

Absolutely extraordinary. Peschi, La Soleil et La Mer and Event Horizon the pick of the lot here

Indeed...as stated below, this album really is an incredible piece of music. Like md said before me, i also first heard this on one of Colin Dales outer limit shows in 93, though i believe it was the track ahn he played that night, it was nothing short of beautiful, and i couldn't wait for its release and hear more. It didn't disappoint in any way then and it still doesn't now, some 20 odd years later, the perfect soundtrack for the best sci-fi movie yet to be made. For me its up there with the best of them.

I'm pretty sure that after having listened to music for over 40+ years that this record is tied with Joy Division's 1st 2 albums for my Greatest Album Ever Made. It is just completely perfect in every way, I wouldn't change a single note of it. Every so often a record comes along that leaves you astonished at the power and creativity of the human mind - this one is it.

Early 90's electronic music released ahead of it's time remaining a marvel listen even today, 17+ yrs later. A truly classic release that has not dated one bit. Reload, aka the famous ambient group Global Communications, create a modern technology driven listen into futuristic, experimental, science-fiction ambient-Idm-techno with some added intelligent breakbeat. A truly impressive lisenn that's produced with the highest of quality aimed to stimulate all areas of the mind! This certainly is no dance album but more a thought provoking listen that manages to provoke many emotions and feelings taking you on a unexpected, original, & compelling journey through moody, dark, thoughtful, spooky, intense, and calming moods & atmospheres. A Si-Fi story booklet is also included with the CD, complimenting the music, and a very good read itself. Each track plays its own Si-Fi chapter telling parts of a mini story through music that will keep you wondering in what the next track (chapter) will bring next - just don't expect a main predictable theme on this album! Tracks have a variation in pace, approach, mood, atmosphere, & style - yet hold the album together incredibly well while complimenting & working as part of the albums Si-Fi concept bringing ideas, variety, and originality together embracing the listener into its unique listening experience across its sweeping melodies, industrial noise, breakbeats, light & dark tones, spacey ambient, alien soundscapes and everything else that sonically can be thrown at you - inc the kitchen sink! This truly is a album of electronic sophistication musically designed with thought, originality, and creativity that seems to have come from a now desolate but once a technological Si-Fi future...NOT TO BE MISSED!Highly Recommended.

After so many long listens and late-night ruminations, this album still holds sounds to be uncovered and speaks of trips not yet taken. The full dynamic range is covered, from earthquakes and cityscapes to verdant dancefloor jams and humming drones, and the utmost musical care is audible at every turn. With every track so different and great, the whole thing adds up to an intelligent, gorgeous outer space rave-up, so strange and wonderful that it may as well have been dropped into our laps direct from a faraway planet. The booklet of stories is not that necessary... tracks like "Ehn" and "Le Soleil Et La Mer" put vivid, bursting pictures into the mind of the hopeful listener. And to think that people heap praise on techno albums which hammer away at two or three ideas for sixty minutes... After getting our fill of those guys, we can go back and grab onto this compendium of outer-space delights, rewinding time and time again.

I am a little pissed off that I was so careless at the time to lose the booklet that was associated with this release, however the most important thing here is the music. And my god, it is fantatstic! Unlike so many other electronic albums that have been produced, this is one of variation. It has beautiful ambient soundscapes, claustrophobic electronic workouts, and four to the floor moments. This album has everything. Spacey and otherworldly, light up, sit back and let the music take you away. A work of genius!!!

This album still blows my mind 12 years after I bought it, upon hearing the wonderful "Le Soleil Et La Mer" on Colin Dale's Kiss FM radio show in 1993.Everything about it, from the concepts to the artwork and ultimately the music, is so well thought out, crafted and presented. It contains everything that music has the power to hold...from raging noise to the utterly sublime, from transparent simplicity to swirling complexity, from floating ambience to forceful structure, from monotonous droning to brilliant melodies - all these elements in abundance, sometimes in the same tracks!!It's also one of the few releases that contain lots of samples from sci-fi films without making the music sound cheesy. The whispered voice from "2010" announcing that "something wonderful" is about to happen - as heavenly beauty merges into a ferocious onslaught across "The Enlightenment" and "Event Horizon" - is perfectly placed. Likewise for the sample from "Abyss" ("there's something down there....something not us....not human") before one of the most unlikely tracks ever to contain whale-song stomps out across side C in the appropriately titled "Mosh". "THX-1138", surely the most sampled film of all time in electronic music, also makes an appearance, as "1642 Try 621" rolls into one of the darkest tracks to have emanated from the Global Communication camp.As the title suggests, it's truly a narrative piece...each track telling a different tale and taking you on a different journey. The inclusion of a booklet with illustrations and actual stories to accompany some of the tracks was an aesthetic masterstroke, but I've rarely looked at it as for me the music is so perfect that it goes all the way to communicating its meaning through sound alone.Possibly my favourite album of all time.

..and I felt a strong need to comment this album here. In some way it is very astonishing that it already came out in 1993, a time which was considered as the age of "Intelligent Techno" or "Intelligent" especially by british music press. This one sounds far advanced than, for instance, the excellent works by Black Dog coming out at the same time. The entire concept is brilliant. Every experimental decent groove is build around subtle, deep, "unconscious", ambient soundscapes in a sophisticated way. Mostly all tracks here are not really parted from each other and thus causes the trip into bottom of your mind. So it can happen the long ambientscapes remain alone for a while and you feel relaxed and balanced when all of a sudden is appearing something unexpected. And some tracks are even danceable. Meanwhile I love this gem so much if someone would raid my copy I'd feel like someone has teared my heart out of my body. In the moment I only know one masterpiece, viz John Beltran's "Ten Days Of Blue", which is comparable to this special kind of music...