Peter Barclay - I'm Not Your ToyThe diminutive Peter Barclay was that guy in early 1990s Oakland, the eccentric with the most style, the most talent, the local magician. This self taught musical wizard recorded at home and produced two barely released albums, 1990s dreamlike Acceptance and 1992s synth pop What Kind Of World, winning over the few who heard them. But fame outside his small circle was not to be, and Barclay was lost in the late 90s crest of the AIDS epidemic.

Expect these to glow up the dancefloors over the summer

it was recorded at EMI Lagos

all while maintaining his celebrated melodic focus

Strictly limited to 400 copies

Its music caught in meditative reflection one moment before propelling into ecstatic revelation the next

so goes his album

elusive new heights

An important house / excavation

new age and the works of Cluster & Eno

in recognition we recalibrate

and a Walter Gibbons mix of the classic 'Set It Off'

all four cuts on this EP still sound as raw and devastating 30 years later