Thursday, January 17, 2013

I knew it was only a matter of time before this stuff took on a certain remote-in-time allure -  at Nightvision blog here's Moon Wiring Club with "Midnight in Europe" - a mix of 90s ambient techno  -  names like Beaumont Hannant, Bandulu, Microglobe, Woob, Reload...

As Ian Hodgson writes, "there’s a uniformity here that dates the music, a pre-laptop sound. Large boxes and keyboards are being squeezed together. Some of these tracks are almost twenty years old (and getting older). However, as time passes by, many of them also retain a curious freshness, a quality that happily places them outside of time…"

Also at Nightvision, a conversation with Ian H