Exclusive – hear remastered rare Clark track ahead of hefty Warp reissue package

Warp’s reissues concentrate on Clark’s purple patch of noughties techno productions

Clark has shared the official audio video for ‘Frau Wav (Brief Fling)’, a rare alternate version of the track ‘Frau Wav’ from his Body Riddle album

Warp will be reissuing a remastered edition of Body Riddle on September 30, together with a double album of rare and unreleased tracks titled 05-10 on the same day.

Looking back on Body Riddle with 16 years of hindsight, Clark reflects: “I feel really good about it, it’s interesting hearing it again. It seems to be an album that meant a lot to some people and be a significant record, but for me it is just another album of mine. 

It is a bit of a blueprint for how things have gone with my music since then, because it’s just so dynamic and all over the place and messy, but intentional, and the mess feels deliberate and the accidents feel illuminating and exciting, and that’s a spirit that I think I always want to capture in music. You know when you hear music that is less than the sum of its parts, and it should work because everything’s tidy and in its place but something doesn’t work? I think I always aspire to make music that’s more than the sum of its parts, that shouldn’t really work but it does, and that’s such a magical quality. I don’t know whether the record has that or not, but the album is certainly the result of trying to be like that, all of these diverse styles sitting alongside each other but the overall album makes it coherent. 

I’ve always tried to write albums rather than tracks for streaming services. I’m always going to be an album artist whether the form’s alive or only loved by a hundred people on the planet, for me it’s still the ultimate form of expression. An album’s a perfect length of time, it’s like a short story, you can do it in a sitting and it’s not too much. With an album you can just go for a walk and have it in your headphones, and Body Riddle is that classic ‘go for a walk and listen to an album in one go’ kind of record. It’s not trying to be a club record, it’s pure listening music.”

Pre order your copies of both albums here

Read our interview with Clark about last year’s Playground In A Lake album here