Tracklist:

Mondo Scuro

Silver Surfer (Ambience Mix)

The Ascendor

Def Hedd Disco

Glowing Embers Part 1

Glowing Embers Part 2

Mantra Parts 5 and 6

Take Me to the Sound (Two Lone Swordsmen Mix)

Sounding great, but crazy expensive sadly!

A vital vinyl-era snapshot of Dark Globe’s early years — spanning deep breakbeat pressure, tribal club tracks and psychedelic electronic drift.

Glowing Embers (Collected Psychedelic Beats 1993–97) captures Dark Globe during one of the most exploratory periods in UK electronic music, carving out a distinctive sound between underground club culture and more immersive, psychedelic listening spaces.

Originally emerging through their own Violent Drum imprint, Dark Globe made records that were built for vinyl and shaped in real time: lean, melodic, physical productions made with drum machines, samplers and synths running live, then performed to tape by hand. These were not tracks endlessly assembled on a screen — music with movement, tension and human feel pressed into every pass.

The dancefloor cuts — including “Mondo Scuro,” “Silver Surfer (Ambience Mix),” “The Ascendor” and “Def Hedd Disco” — are tightly tuned and produced with the floor in mind: deep low-end, hypnotic groove, stripped-back momentum and a strong melodic signature running through each track. The B-side opens out into the more transportive side of their work, with “Glowing Embers Part 1 & 2,” “Mantra Parts 5 and 6” and “Take Me to the Sound (Two Lone Swordsmen Mix)” moving into richer, more psychedelic and inward-looking territory.

The collection also reflects a wider moment in British electronic culture when the dancefloor and the ambient room carried equal weight.