"A 7" Vinyl single in full-colour sleeve, elongated and extricated from the recent Moon Wiring Club long-player Clutch It Like a Gonk. The 'Out-of-the-Hat' mix of Always A Party perfectly captures the euphoric feeling of being eternally trapped in a disorientating ghastly party situation, and was possibly deemed 'too deranged' for release in any other format. Accompanying upon the reverse is a 'once heard never forgotten' extended remix of up-tempo Dancehall Gonk favourite; Infernal Devices."

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This beautifully-crafted package is the tenth release from Time Released Sound and comes in a limited edition of 100 copies. Inspired by Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire, the CD and accompanying booklet (including historical photographs and other material relating to the mill) come in a hand-made bag made out of heavy raw cotton cloth made at the mill itself.

"Quarry Bank Mill, in Cheshire, was one of the largest and most important of the cotton mills in England. Founded in the late 1700′s, it was a working mill for well over 150 years, and has now been rehabilitated and refurbished, and is again a functioning mill, as part of the UK National Trust.

Wil has gone to the mill on numerous occasions and surreptitiously made recordings of the working machineries and environs. He has overlayed these field recordings with some extremely beautiful musicianship, and created here, a homage of sorts to the mill, to the people that worked in it (the majority of which were unpayed and indentured child laborers,) and to the regions around."

 My own photographs of Quarry Bank Mill are on Flickr here.