Happily upbeat, jazzy track, while the tracks preceding and following it are much darker and ominous sounding. Interesting contrast, but totally fits in with the rest of the flow of the album.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 4:34 pm
by Ross
I actually find that track quite dark too - rhythmic but with sinister undertones in the melodies.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:32 am
by seedy
genesis' first album
never heard it before
this is weird
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:05 pm
by Ross
Huerco S. - Colonial Patterns
One of my favourite producers around at the minute.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:17 pm
by RazorJack
Perfume Tree - Flooded
Feeler (1998)
Great album, highly recommended. Pretty unique stuff, but with some influences of Portishead, Massive Attack and perhaps even Faithless.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:59 am
by haze
more italian library music on the playlist for me today...futuristic themed exotica ftw!
e5 will be on at some point as will some Ozrics...cause it's that sort of day
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 4:35 am
by seedy
tangerine dream's album TYGER
oof
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 9:42 am
by epitome
Esben and the Witch - A New Nature
Really loving this
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:53 am
by Ross
seedy wrote:tangerine dream's album TYGER
oof
Yeah, watch out with post-Virgin TD, the gems are few and far between!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 2:54 pm
by seedy
lol seriously
as i work my way through their catalog i guess i'm reaching the dark side of their music
or is it the light side?
i listened to underwater sunlight after that one and was at least partially relieved haha
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 5:15 pm
by Ross
Yeah, Underwater Sunlight is pretty decent, although it's about the only good Haslinger era album, they head very swiftly into fairly horrible background music territory shortly after. The title track to Optical Race could be the theme to some late '80s US quiz show.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 8:38 am
by dell1972
Optical Race is a horrid tinny sounding album, in fact the only album vaguely listenable for me from that era is the Miracle Mile soundtrack. For my sins I actually saw them live on the Melrose tour at Bradford St. Georges Hall. They pumped so much dry ice into the venue that I only occasionally saw the band (I was on the top tier so I was just staring into fog and listening to what was essentially a facsimile of the album).
There's some occasional gems later on in their career, but I'm inclined to discount the 87 to 97 period almost entirely. After 1990 Jerome Froese is picking the song titles too which adds an extra tinge of horror. Big City Dwarves? Shudder...
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:22 am
by Ross
There are a couple of ok tracks on the first Dream Mixes album... if they'd come out a couple of years before they would have been early '90s dance classics. But yeah, it's a grim period otherwise. I struggle to find anything genuinely worth revisiting even in their more recent stuff, even if it is relatively inoffensive.
