Sixty Nine the groups debut LP that emerged in 1988 had critics and listeners struggling to fit language around A.R. Kanes sound. As a title it was telling – the year of Bitches Brew, the year of In A Silent Way, the erotic mbius between two lovers – and as originally coined by the band themselves, dream pop (before it became a free-floating signifier of vague import) was entirely apposite for the music A.R. Kane were making.

Crafted in a dark small basement studio in which Tambala recalls the duo had complete freedom – We wanted to go as far out as we could, and in doing so we discovered the point where it stops being music. There was an irresistibly dreamy, somnambulant, sensual and almost surreal flow to sixty nines sound, but also real darkness/dankness, the ruptures of the primordial and the reverberations of the subconscious, within the grooves of remarkable songs like Dizzy and Crazy Blue. Alexs plangent vocals floated and surged amidst exquisite peals of refracted feedback but crucially there was BASS here, lugubrious and funky and full of dread, sonic pleasure and sonic disturbance crushed together to make music with a center so deep it felt subcutaneous, music constructed from both the accidental and the deliberate, generous enough to dance with both serendipity and chaos. sixty nine remains – especially in this remastered iteration – ravishing, revolutionary Neil Kulkarni