Ship-Scope

2025 Repress

Shinichi Atobe’s ‘Ship Scope’ was Chain Reaction’s penultimate release in 2001 and, with the benefit of hindsight, also one of the legendary label’s most sublime offerings.

Phase fwd to 2015 and DDS rightly put it back into circulation with this necessary reissue arriving in the wake of Atobe’s much loved archival salvage, ‘Butterfly Effect’, which caused quite a ripple in late 2014.

Notable not only for its unusually sweeter, dreamier ambient tone – especially when compared with the rest of the CR#’s – but also for its happily lost-at-sea feel, connoting a deeply romantic and almost shoegazy late ’90s / into-the-’00s deep techno aesthetic that would essentially become washed away with the advent and normalisation of mnml techno’s pristine production values.