Featuring Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and Mogwai.

Record Trade’s record shops are launching a new compilation series called Behind The Counter, inviting artists to curate mixes of the music that has most influenced them sourced from records sold on the shop floor.

For this first instalment, composer Max Richter has gathered music both familiar and found, spanning a vast array of influences from electronic producers like Aphex Twin and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, to bands like Mogwai and Boards Of Canada, alongside classic composers, whether Philip Glass, Rachmaninoff or Bach.

“This is a compilation of music I love,” Richter says. “Some of my choices are things I’ve been listening to for decades, others are new discoveries, but feel like they belong here. I put a couple of things of mine in too – welcome to my world.”

In what’s perhaps a nod the The Vinyl Factory’s short film series of the same name which has featured both Rough Trade East and West in the past, Behind The Counter hopes to introduce fans to the musical worlds of many more of their most prominent artists and advocates.

Split across three LPs, the vinyl edition features an abridged, unmixed collection of the 36-track compilation, while download and CD versions carry the full work. There’s also a limited edition with a bonus 7″.

Click here to pre-order your copy of the green vinyl from Rough Trade ahead of its release on 16th July.

Tracklist:

Side A

Composed by Charles Ives

Performed by New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor Leonard Bernstein

Performed by Alfred Brendel, Piano

Composed by Caroline Shaw

Performed by Roomful of Teeth

Composed by Nadia Boulanger

Performed by Nicolas Alstaedt, cello and Jose Gallardo, piano

Side B

Performed by Mogwai

Composed by Thomas Adès

Composed by Guillaume de Machaut

Musical Director: David Munrow

Performed by Boards of Canada

Composed by Urmas Sisask

Performed by Lauri Väinmaa, Piano

Side C

Composed by Josquin des Prez

Performed by Huelgas Ensemble and Paul Van Nevel

Composed by Howard Skempton

Performed by John Tilbury, Piano

Performed by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Composed by Handel

Performed by English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot

Gardiner & Monteverdi Choir

Composed by Max Richter

Performed by Hilary Hahn, Violin and Cory Smythe, Piano

Side D

Composed by Rachmaninoff

Performed by Tenebrae

Performed by Rachel’s

Composed by John Luther Adams

Performed by the Northwestern University Cello Ensemble.

Composed by Luciano Berio

Performed by David Arden, Piano

Composed by Philip Glass

Performed by New York City Opera Chorus and New York City Opera Orchestra

Performed by Let’s Eat Grandma

Side E

Composed by Henry Purcell

Performed by Phantasm

Composed by Scriabin

Performed by Marta Deyanova, Piano

Performed by Low

Composed by Osvaldo Golijov

Performed by Kronos Quartet

Performed by Aphex Twin

Composed by Knut Nystedt

Performed by Schola Cantorum

Conductor: Kåre Hanken

Side F

Performed by Godspeed You! Black Emperor