Sasha and Digweed reissue 1996 mix as secondary market hits €285
A landmark 1996 dance album is returning to stores, highlighting the intense demand and high valuations for vintage European electronic music pressings.
Sasha & John Digweed are releasing a 'Redux' edition of their 1996 mix album 'Northern Exposure' on 25th September. The 30th anniversary reissue will arrive on CD, vinyl and digital formats via the Late Night Tales and Night Time Stories labels.
The commercial logic behind the release is evident in the secondary market. Original vinyl copies of the album currently start at €285 on Discogs, reflecting a broader trend of surging valuations for out-of-print electronic music.
This price point demonstrates the lasting economic power of foundational dance music catalogues. Record labels are increasingly mining these archives to capture value that has shifted to the collector's market over the past three decades.
The new package contains remastered versions of the original double-disc album, featuring artists like The Future Sound of London, William Orbit, and Underworld. A separate bonus mix of new ambient and dub reworks will follow digitally on 9th October.
To build the bonus material, the duo returned to the original studio stems to isolate the atmospheric elements. They rebuilt the tracks using modern production tools while retaining the original imperfections, drawing inspiration from dub artists like Bill Laswell and Mad Professor.
“There’s something about the atmosphere of this album that really is wonderful. And it also shows the birth of a sound that’s turned into this behemoth of a music scene,” Sasha noted.
To promote the album, the DJs shared a new rework of Underworld’s 'Dark and Long' by Darren Emerson. “‘Dark and Long’ first came out in 1994 and was already a monster on the floor, a staple of my Ministry of Sound residency and clubs right across the UK, so it meant a lot when Sasha and John Digweed featured it on their first ‘Northern Exposure’ back in 1996... So when they asked me to bring a new version to ‘Northern Exposure 30’, all these years on, it felt like a real full circle,” Emerson said.
By pairing a straight reissue with newly reworked ambient tracks, the release aims to serve both dedicated collectors and contemporary listeners. The strategy turns a historic artefact of European club culture into a modern commercial product.
