Album Info Hide Show Artist: Eric Hilton Album: Midnight Ragas Released: US, 20 Jun 2025 Tracklist: A1 Life (In The Deep End) 4:00 A2 Leave It All 4:26 A3 Je Ne TAime Plus 3:45 A4 Behind My Eyes 4:29 A5 All I Want 3:33 A6 Burkina Faso 3:21 B1 Midnight Raga 4:01 B2 Sol Interior 3:59 B3 Galactic Shine 3:09 B4 Madame Asha 4:00 B5 LOcean 3:59 B6 Beautiful Moment 3:19 Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show LP – Limited Edition Bone Colour Vinyl. Eric Hilton is one half of legendary downtempo / electronic group Thievery Corporation. Compilation albums have always been a great tool for discovery, especially in electronic music. A couple of familiar artists or tracks, sequenced amongst unknown treasures, taking the listener on a satisfying journey through different moods and sounds. Its not easy to make a good compilation album, one bad track can throw off the whole vibe, the flow. A great compilation album can elevate the individual tracks and put them into a context where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. With “Midnight Ragas, Eric Hilton has made a great compilation album. Except not really. Well explain. Midnight Ragas is a new album by the downtempo electronic music producer, with vocal contributions by longtime collaborators Natalia Clavier and Puma Ptah, along with newer recruit Kristina Westernik-Dandridge. And while the tracks are all new Eric Hilton recordings, the album sounds like a killer compilation record, with shifting tempos, moods, vocalists, and languages across twelve tracks. The vintage age of mix CDs may be long over, but listen to Midnight Ragas and youll think it never left. Eric Hilton has plenty of experience with compilation albums. Tracks by Thievery Corporation, the downtempo combo Hilton co-founded in 1995, have been featured on over 600 mix CDs, according to music database website Discogs. “I loved compilations back in the day. You bought them to get turned on to new sounds, or you liked the artist compiling it. Midnight Ragas was not conceptualized as a compilation – the album is a moment of eclecticism, says Hilton. I changed studios and got to work, invited friends to participate, just making music together. This album is a result of the first 6 months of recording – and because the process was so collaborative, it ended up being a mix of styles. I loved working like that this time, says the producer, who usually produces music as a solo endeavour. With three different vocalists and lyrics sung in French, Spanish and English, Midnight Ragas has the distinct feel of international exotica, a sound that Hilton has cultivated over 30 years of album releases. “Languages are like different settings on a synth, they have a timbre and delivery that either work or they dont within a song. Working with Natalia, Puma and Kristina was so great on this project, because I had all these vocal flavors to choose from. There are instrumentals on the record alongside the vocal tracks which vary the mood and pacing. To create an experience, you need to have moments in the song sequence that have a relational mood of some kind, maybe for three tracks, and then slip into another mood. Different languages and singers, changing tempos and sounds – theres a lot of that on this record, and thats why it sounds like a compilation album, even though its entirely my music, says Hilton. So then, what does this compilation mix album by one artist sound like? The opener, “Life In the Deep End hits like an even more laid-back Khruangbin, soundtracking a vintage Billy Dee Williams Malt liquor advert. Next up: “Leave it all, a ballad in the Massive Attack/Zero 7 wheelhouse – minimal groove, smart sounding, sounds like a single. Puma Ptah pours it on smooth here. Puma is such a great singer with a deep personality; I think this track highlights him better than anything weve done together, asserts Hilton. Track three is “Ja ne taime plus” (I dont love you anymore) – imagine its 1970 and youre Alain Delon or Catherine Deneuve, driving a light gold Ferrari Daytona along the coast from Cannes to Monaco. Clavier provides the vocal accompaniment, singing for Hilton in French for the first time. The third song is “Behind my Eyes” – 70s crime flick meets ambient drum & bass. “I love the wildness of this track, we really nailed the production on this one, its tough and sets the tone for the next few tracks, says Hilton. “All I Want also features Ptah; the track is an ass-shaking, purple crushed velvet groove, hard but smoooooth. Track 6, “Burkina Faso will be a standout track for longtime Thievery fans, a tough D.C. bounce and “you know what time it is feel. Things start to shift with the title track (theres that moment in the song sequence Hilton mentioned)- seven songs in and things start sounding mysterious on Midnight Raga. Traditional ragas are improvisational but repetitive; this song somehow is repetitive but doesnt hit you that way, opines the producer. Next up: “Sol Interior” – with gorgeous vocals from Clavier amid Ipcress File/John Barry twinkles. It sounds a bit like a great lost track from Airs classic debut Moon Safari. The album closes out with a trifecta of late-night slow burners. Madame Asha is classic trip hop, a nod to legendary Indian American vocalist Asha Puthli. LOcean” – stays on the 90s trip hop wavelength; this is a standout for Hilton, as good as any track of the era/genre. And it all comes down to “Beautiful Moment” – unquestionably the most romantic track on the album. Vocals by Westernik-Dandridge summon thoughts of the late summer evening sun, slow kisses and dew drops on agave leaves. Its as perfect a sonic representation of apres-release afterglow that youre likely to hear. And then its all over, sigh…unless youve put your CD player/turntable/streamer on auto repeat, which is the right idea. Midnight Ragas is the compilation album that isnt; perhaps thats why its so listenable, and so unforgettable. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review