• RELEASED: June 1996
• FORMAT: 12″
• LABEL: NINJA TUNE
• CAT No.: ZEN1240
• DESIGN: Openmind
• PHOTOGRAPHY: Nancy Brown
• EXTRA ZEN: ninjatune page / BUY

When I first met Vadim he was in The Herbaliser’s Train Trax studios playing a record backwards with the disc suspended upside down on a roll of tape and this informed the cover image for this debut Ninja release. I was going for something abstract and vaguely jazz based but was deeply influenced by Vaughn Oliver and Chris Bigg’s work at V23 (lots of images in boxes, texture, script typefaces etc.)
I’ve included the colours on the the original designs, lighter because my monitor wasn’t calibrated (see also ‘Trumpet Riffs’) but I actually like the darker printed version better.