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Ultramarine is a London and Essex-based UK duo consisting of Ian Cooper and Paul Hammond, who formed in 1989. Both members were former members of another band. Their early releases were issued on a Brussels-based label and by a label affiliated with an early purveyor of regular House music nights in Soho, London. Ultramarine's debut album was released by Crépuscule in 1990. Their classic second album was initially released on Brainiak in 1991 and later received a wider audience with an expanded edition released in 1992. The album was described by Simon Reynolds in his book "Energy Flash" as "perhaps the first and best stab at that seeming contradiction-in-terms, pastoral techno... all sun-ripened, meandering lassitude and undulant dub-sway tempos... like acid-house suffused with the folky-jazzy ambience of the Canterbury scene."

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