Reedale Rise
The Searching

Listening notes

Reedale Rise released The Searching on Propersound in 2019, catalogued as PROS003. The record is a four-track vinyl release, with two tracks on each side, sitting across the genres of broken beat, electro, electronic, and house.

Side A opens with "Astral Wayfarer" and continues with "Go South." Side B carries "Solice" and closes with "Welcome to Microworld." Track durations are not listed.

The catalog number places this as the third release on Propersound, suggesting a label still in relatively early operation at the time of issue. Beyond that, the verified facts on hand do not extend to personnel, recording circumstances, pressing details, or the label's broader history, and none of those areas are addressed here.

What the genre tags do establish is a release working across territory that has historically demanded careful attention to rhythm and texture — broken beat in particular is a form with specific structural expectations, and its presence alongside electro and house points to a release positioned somewhere in the overlap of those idioms. The four track titles themselves carry a certain consistent register: movement, interiority, scale. Whether that consistency reflects deliberate sequencing or coincidence is not something the available facts can settle.

The Searching is a concise document — four tracks, no listed durations, a small label early in its catalog. Collectors and researchers working in the broken beat and electronic space will want to verify additional details, including pressing quantities and any subsequent reissues, through sources beyond what is confirmed here. This draft should be reviewed against primary documentation before publication.