Listening Diary 20250211
Random selections from Navidrome
- Sandrom - Utopia - https://sndrm.bandcamp.com/album/utopia: From GetMusic, actual Berlin school electronics from Berlin with additional techno inspiration drifing into vaporwave. Big and shiny without forgetting its roots. Did Tangerine Dream ever make a techno record? I can imagine it sounding like this.
- School of Language - Old Fears - https://schooloflanguage.bandcamp.com/album/old-fears: David Brewis from Field Music’s occasional alter ego. This LP from 2014 has a decided 80s funk feel for nodding out to, as well as Brewis’ trickery with voice loops and clever arrangements, plus a penchant for letting his inner Prince out.
- Uli Federwisch - Hurricane of Passion (theme from Psy-Chopper Team 12) - https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/hurricane-of-passion-theme-from-psy-chopper-team-12: Strategic Tape Reserve is one of those labels that perplexes but produces some gems. This is a 15 minute collection of themes and incidental music to a European technothriller series of the kind that Channel 4 used to show occasionally, but one that probably didn’t escape the German market. It’s all saxophone and FM sounds and splashy electronic drums and you can see the tense action unfolding. The blurb on the release on Bandcamp is also a joy.
- Limnetic Villains - An Electronic Sinking - @limneticvillains https://limneticvillains.bandcamp.com/album/an-electronic-sinking-ep: Early EP from Irish techno-rocker which grooves and rocks in a most pleasing way.