RICHARD SEN PRESENTS DREAM THE DREAM (UK TECHNO, BREAKBEAT AND HOUSE 1990-1994)

Posted on 2023-05-29

Richard Sen has been immersed in dance music for over three decades, producing, remixing, and DJing all over the world, and witnessing crucial moments in the scene’s continuum. If there’s any one person to recount the history of UK dance, it’s undoubtedly him. With the first release of Ransom Note’s new Dance Music From Planet Earth sublabel, he remembers the optimism of early 90s rave and the gauzy layers of fantasy its tracks are wrapped in.

While telling the story with a trim ten tracks scouted from record stores back in the day, the generously extended runtime of Dream The Dream gives each track room to breathe. The almost eleven minute opener ‘Tokyo’ from Centuras sets the scene admirably: a slowburn of synth bubbles and icy pad floes, the measured pace of pulsing beats, sprinkling in far flung, new agey chants and woodwinds.

ransomnoterecords.bandcamp.com