NEWS: The Avalanches ‘Since I Left You’ 20th Anniversary DELUXE Edition with added remixed goodness, out June

The Avalanches have announced a 20^th anniversary reissue of their ground breaking debut album Since I Left You, with a deluxe edition featuring numerous bonus tracks including previously unreleased remixes by MF Doom, Black Dice, Leon Vynehall, Sinkane and Carl Craig. 

Set for release on 4th June via XL Recordings, Prince Paul – the de facto fourth member of De La Soul, renowned remixer of Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick,Queen Latifah, Boogie DownProductions and 3rd Bass, and one half of Handsome Boy Modeling School alongside Dan The Automator  – revisits the album’s exhilarating title track.

Listen to his remix HERE
 
Other standout bonus tracks include Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life (MF DOOM Remix), with previously unheard vocal contribution – a bittersweet homage from the late, enigmatic master of the hip-hop underground, who passed away last October.

The Avalanches’ debut was a meticulous labour of love sifted from the second-hand record bins of Melbourne. Since I Left You was an unprecedented act of musical invention filtered through the loving hands of young music-obsessed DJs and musicians to blossom into the ultimate feelgood world party soundtrack.
  
The boundary-pushing orchestration of samples — possibly up to 3,500 uniquely sourced and spliced sound fragments — was unanimously acclaimed as an act of technical genius. But the glowing heart of the project, a story of oneness through time, space and infinite diversity, was what put the world under their magic spell.

“I remember very clearly a few things. We decided to not have any of our voices on it, which made it last because it’s a kind of transmission; nothing date-stamps it to that time. Looking back, I’m proud of this record as a pure expression of joy and love; heart on its sleeve and free from irony.” – Robbie Chater (The Avalanches)

Released in Australia in 2000 and in the U.S. and the U.K. in 2001, Since I Left You was named one of the year’s best albums by critics around the world and later placed in the Top 10 of Pitchfork’s Top 200 Albums of the 2000s and in the Top 20 of Rolling Stone’s Greatest EDM Albums of All Time. Just last year, the Los Angeles Times hailed it as a “masterpiece” in a round-up of “life affirming albums to help you get through self-quarantine” and suggested “for a different kind of deep-listening enjoyment, let your brain relax, close your eyes, and follow the greeting offered 45 seconds into the album: ‘Get a drink, have a good time now, welcome to paradise.’”