The Sabres Of Paradise – Sabresonic

Does anyone know if this is getting a reissue? Warp need to repress this masterpiece!

I seem to reading somewhere that Still Fighting began life as a remix of Primal Scream's Don't Fight It Feel It. Can't find anything to corroborate that now, but if you listen to them back-to-back, there are definitely similarities. Plus, the name hints at a link.

My copy is still ok / playable as of Oct 2020 - luckily no discrot so far - most of my 92-93 PDO CDs all suffer from discrot, which usually starts on the last track, then the second last track and so forth - but not here! (yet...)

... It was the Orange TV ads and the chillout comps that cashed in (late) on this outstanding 7", a bit like S-Club 7' producers using Mantronix to pump some blood into their tired formula, but rendering a classic useless in their greedy & unnecessary process. Forget all that, head back to 93' & this was a symphony like a Mermaid siren- cry, aimed at tear-jerking techno crowds into the rocks at a vulnerable hour of the night... Deeply haunting & on vinyl format, only found on this 7". So good, it ended up getting used on... Well, you know what. I guess it's a compliment.

Weatherall handed my a 7" of Smokebelch beatless version in 93 at a club he was playing in in Dublin. Fuck knows where that is now.

Lovely little dreamy downtempo 7". The beatless mix was heard on the Orange (UK cellphone/mobile provider) commercial on TV and featured on pretty much all the chillout CD compilations. Trippy stuff - can't how I picked this up, nice addition to my collection.

I can't express what a pivotal record this is for me.
Mr Weatherall has always had an eye on the complete package, the Sabres/Swordsmen era is indicative of this. Evocative music backed with such smart art work/sleeve notes, teasingly giving glimpses at a far greater intention.
This makes his work sound humourless, which it most definitely not. Nearly everything he does is touched with wry humour twinned with near obsessive attention to subversive though imaginative reference points.
In later years Mr Weatherall has been dismissive of the cinematic elements in his work of this era, (a reaction to the growth of many of his contemporaries moving onto this path perhaps?) however this record casts up in my minds eye....from pseudo Gang warfare in a Balti house to a Spaghetti Western epic relocated to Peru. Its nuts, funny, more than a bit pretentious and sums up 90s dance music for me.
Buy it, never regret!

fabulous production.
one of my favorites.
highly recommended.

A album that came out just before the legendary electronic AI album series released by Warp Records which included the now classic albums: Apex Twin 'Selected Ambient', B12 'Electro Soma', The Black Dog 'Bytes, Speedy J 'Ginger', R.H.Kirk 'Virtual State'. Sabresonic is a album that should very well be added to these AI classics due to its fusion and intelligent twist on techno-electro music which is now over 12yrs old, yet still holds a unique sound of its own. Sabresonic certainly is a interesting and wonderful musical journey through hypnotic melodies, club friendly electro-techno-house, chilled atmospheric downtempo beats, and also a couple of moving spine tingling movie like ambient soundtracks. Oh! plus the occasional moment of Sabres cool dub is also here. This is music you can't quiet pigeon hole but can certainly relate too with its various electronic genres that blend and work so well together. Each track tells its own story using a concept of moods and atmospheres that will engage the listener into its twilight clubby downtempo electro grooves, and melodic left-field sounds, that have a certain cool club indie vibe about them too. Listening to the album can at times stimulate thoughts as well as your feet, or even both together, and just maybe even evoke those memories of the rise of the UK AI techno-electro scene - if you ever were there!? as Sabersonic's music does have a nice twist of an old school feel(not dated), yet still remains modern and different and quiet diverse even today12+yrs on. A forgotten classic Warp-records release that has to be experienced!

My favorite "acknowledgment" of all time is printed on the back: "THE SABRES OF PARADISE would definitely NOT like to thank God!"