Sold Date: December 27, 2021
Start Date: September 21, 2021
Final Price: £27.99 (GBP)
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This is an Exclusive Release from Bleep.com which was released on 18th September 2020 and is pressed on 12” Limited Edition Red Vinyl. 
The entire limited run of just 300 examples in this colour was completely Sold Out within a day of going on pre-sale.

ARCA’s defining moment captures 25 minutes of the most innovative electronic sounds of the last decade. ‘&&&&&’ is being reproduced in Red Vinyl for the first time since the original release in 2013.
The B-side is etched.
The photographs shown are of the actual item for sale which is still sealed.

THE game-changing mixtape of the 2010s is finally re-pressed on vinyl and - for the first time - 300 strictly limited worldwide copies in Red Vinyl and 500 strictly limited worldwide copies in White Vinyl.

Originally issued by the pivotal Hippos In Tanks in 2013, and self-released on vinyl in 2014 via her own website, Arca’s &&&&& has cast a strong, if cultish, influence over contemporary dance, pop, and electronic experiments during its life to date. Tiled from what are now disclosed as 14 individual components, its mazy mosaic of fractured ideas and curdled hooks blew our minds at a time when so much dance music was either going retro-vintage or, ahem, “future” garage, and would provide anyone listening with oodles of inspiration for new directions influenced by the Latinx and club cultural shifts pioneered by likes of Elysia Crampton (then E+E), Total Freedom, and TCF.

7 years after its debut release, &&&&& is still one of our all time faves. That sticky, diffractive flow between her convulsive ‘Knot’, the sighing gobs of ‘Harness’ and the spine tracing chorals of ‘Fossil’, and thru the melodic late ‘90s Ae/AFXisms of ‘Obelisk’ still burn. With hindsight it’s easy to hear this mixtape as a crucial bridge between her earliest rudeez on the two ‘Stretch’ volumes (which shockingly slipped most people’s attention at the time) and the way she would bloom in the following years, from production for FKA Twigs, Kayne and Björk, to her none more beguiling solo albums and holistic embrace of a mutant futurist a e s t h e t i c. 

Unmissable.