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    Jam & Spoon’s ‘Tripomatic Fairytales’ Sees New Book, 4-Disc Remaster Release

    By Mark MancinoOctober 19, 2023
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    The book by KM7 & Tim Stark, commemorating the 30th anniversary of one of electronic music’s seminal albums, has arrived.

    In April of 1993, Jam & Spoon released an LP that became the first artist album example of a major new electronic music sub-genre. The visionary Tripomatic Fairytales 2001 proved to be an instant success for SONY Music and through its singles (not least the timeless “Stella”), was instrumental in touching off the trance music phenomena. Seminal, influential, inspirational, and thanks to its artwork, visually iconic, it became a lightning rod for a style of music that in 1999 became electronic music’s most prominent form.

    The idea to mark Tripomatic’s 30th anniversary came from Arny Bink – the owner of Holland’s Black Hole Recordings. Played daily at his and Tiësto’s Magik Muzik record shop in the 90s, the album became highly influential on the pair. However, it was only 25 years later (at 2018’s Amsterdam Dance Event) that Jam El Mar and Arny first shook hands. From that meeting, the idea to do commemorative justice to the beloved, scene-setting album became a joint venture, and the project began to take shape.

    Jam and artist Klaus Mai, who through his KM7 design bureau had created the original, now instantly recognizable Tripomatic artwork, had remained close friends. KM7, however, had long since left the world of music design to focus on other areas (amongst them, famously, the design of the Leica Museum in Wetzlar, Germany). Rolf offered to fly Klaus over (literally, having just qualified for his pilot’s license) to Black Hole’s Breda home base to discuss his participation.

    From there, Klaus was drawn by the suggestion that he expand his original, single piece of Tripomatic art into a substantial, coffee table-sized book. This in turn would essentially form a new gallery-like exhibition, taking his original Tripomatic vision to its ultimate conclusion. Mai went to work and over a three-year period, designed dozens of new pieces inspired by his original sleeve, all of which are now richly detailed between the book’s pages.

    With its art in motion, Arny began looking for someone to author the book, ultimately bringing in Tim Stark, who had become a prominent voice on the trance scene and its music over the last two-plus decades. Through a series of articles and interviews, Stark pieced together Tripomatic’s fascinating backstory. The book also examines the cultural, social, and political climate inside J&S’s native Germany at the time of its creation, and the impact it had on the album itself. In conversation, Jam El Mar also reflects on where this first-of-its-kind LP drew its own inspirations from (some dating back another 30 years), as well as the tragic loss of the duo’s Mark Spoon in 2006.

    The book is also accompanied by a 4xCD Tripomatic Fairytales – 30 Years album. The 4-disc work features remastered versions of the three Tripomatic LPs (2001, 2002 & 3003), as well as a disc of new reworks of ‘2001’s. tracks. Working in close collaboration with Jam El Mar, over several years, Black Hole Recordings A&Rs Arny Bink & Mark Meeuwissen collaborated with many remixers on the project. That brought about a fascinating “Sliding Doors”-type perspective, giving an idea of what Tripomatic 2001 might sound like, if it had been produced today. Among those contributing new visions are Paul Daley (formerly of Leftfield), Pig&Dan, Jerome Isma-Ae, M.I.K.E. Push, Whebba and others. Spanning, trance, its loco parentis, techno, dub and other sub-genres, it provides a fantastic 30-years-later revision of the album.

    An immense multifaceted and multimedia salute to a seismic LP, Jam & Spoon’s Tripomatic Fairytales by KM7 and Tim Stark is available from October 19, HERE.

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