{"product_id":"kiko-world-cup-reissue-vinyl-12-skylax-new","title":"Kiko - World Cup [Reissue] (VINYL 12\" Skylax) | NEW","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist: Kiko\u003cbr\u003eTitle: World Cup (Reissue)\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Skylax Records\u003cbr\u003eCatalog Number: LAXC18\u003cbr\u003eFormat: 12inch Vinyl\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 07\/10\/26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStyles: Techno\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr\u003eA1: World Cup (original - 1998)\u003cbr\u003e\u003caudio controls preload=\"meta\" loading=\"lazy\" controlslist=\"nodownload\" oncontextmenu=\"return false;\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deejay.de\/streamit\/3\/2\/1236532a.mp3\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA2: World Cup (2006)\u003cbr\u003e\u003caudio controls preload=\"meta\" loading=\"lazy\" controlslist=\"nodownload\" oncontextmenu=\"return false;\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deejay.de\/streamit\/3\/2\/1236532b.mp3\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e\u003cbr\u003eB1: Tainted Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003caudio controls preload=\"meta\" loading=\"lazy\" controlslist=\"nodownload\" oncontextmenu=\"return false;\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deejay.de\/streamit\/3\/2\/1236532c.mp3\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e\u003cbr\u003eB2: World Cup (edit - 1998)\u003cbr\u003e\u003caudio controls preload=\"meta\" loading=\"lazy\" controlslist=\"nodownload\" oncontextmenu=\"return false;\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deejay.de\/streamit\/3\/2\/1236532d.mp3\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere are records that do not so much belong to an era as they pass through it, leaving traces rather than statements, circulating in the margins where function outweighs discourse. World Cup, written at the end of the 1990s by Kiko, emerged in precisely that way — as a techno track whose presence was felt less through promotion than through repetition, carried from booth to booth, absorbed into the working vocabulary of DJs who recognized in it something immediate and self-evident. Its architecture is minimal yet insistent, driven by tension and release, a form of clarity that resists ornament and instead privileges duration, pressure, and movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen it resurfaced in 2006, it did not return as a revision but as a continuation, reaffirming its role within the ecology of the dancefloor. The same internal logic remained intact, allowing it to re-enter circulation without friction, as though it had simply been waiting to be picked up again. In both instances, the track operates less as a fixed object than as a tool — something to be used, extended, and recontextualized in real time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together these two versions alongside Tainted Life, the release traces a subtle but telling trajectory. If World Cupdefines a certain techno functionalism, Tainted Life reveals another dimension: a proto-Italo sensibility that gestures toward what would later coalesce as electroclash, not through stylistic declaration but through texture, tone, and attitude. Long absent from digital circulation and largely confined to obscurity, it appears here not as a rediscovery, but as a piece whose relevance has simply remained latent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNothing has been added, nothing has been altered beyond what was necessary to restore presence. The recordings are allowed to exist in their own continuity, detached from the temporal markers that might otherwise confine them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe artwork, conceived by H5, extends this approach into the visual field. Its restraint is not aesthetic minimalism for its own sake, but a form of structural clarity, where composition and absence articulate a space in which the record can be encountered without interference, as if resurfacing from a parallel timeline that never fully closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition: NEW\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: TECHNO\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabel: Skylax Records\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalog Number: LAXC18\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Type: 12\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 07\/10\/2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Kiko","offers":[{"title":"- TECHNO *NEW*","offer_id":66769094541427,"sku":"YZF57L-Z4NY-7X","price":18.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0500\/7837\/files\/techno-new_DQPLa.jpg?v=1790906889","url":"https:\/\/www.lovevinylrecords.com\/products\/kiko-world-cup-reissue-vinyl-12-skylax-new","provider":"Love Vinyl Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}