- RELEASED: 01 Jun 1998
- FORMAT: 2xLP / CD / Cassette
- LABEL: NINJA TUNE
- CAT No.: ZEN36 / ZENCD36 / zenMC36
- DESIGN: Openmind
- SPOTTERS DELIGHT: Spot varnish on the LP sleeve, there was also a cassette version made for the South American market
- EXTRA ZEN: ninjatune.net / BUY
The elements of this sleeve come from a European tour I did in the mid-nineties with The Herbaliser, DJ Vadim and Neotropic where, again, I was photographing anything that took my fancy. The cover image is a very simple merging of two images with transparency filters adding to the colour. One image was some kind of air conditioning unit I saw in an alcove on a German industrial estate and the other was a badly lit neon sign somewhere inside a venue on the tour.
Also on my scavenging hunt I found a 60’s copy of ‘L’Architecture d’Aujour’dui’ which had some incredible images in it that I have pillaged for various other Ninja releases along the way. One page had an advert with an image of an office block with curved windows, some open at different angles, and this is what I traced for the spot varnish overlaid across the cover. Another page had an incredible image of a circular tower made entirely from scaffolding which was used as the basis of the back varnish with part of the image ‘coloured in’