Ensemble Pittoresque ‎– "For This Is Past" (Clogsontronics ‎– SG 003) 1984

A period piece of dated minimal electronica from the Flock of Seagulls/Japan type of futurism that anybody with any taste hated in 1984,but now sounds quite strange in a good way. Everything precisely sculptured and in its place with no surprises. Analogue tape had been cracked to a point of sterility,but even that sounds quaint in its misguided march to a misguided form of perfection. A sound of a time where tech began to replace effort and ingenuity with the latest labour saving devices.The only microphone used was for some dodgy vocals,and the drums were programmed on a 'drum computer'! This sound is as identifiable with 1984-86 as flanged vocals are with 1966-8. But with the distance that time gives us,one can now appreciate it as something interesting now the fog has lifte; For this is the past..
(Did i say i like the Flock of Seagulls?)

Tracklist

A1	Better Life's	4:06
A2	The Art Of Being	3:58
A3	Auratorium	5:26
A4	Artificials	3:06
A5	O.B.W.T.	5:09
B1	Maitre Satori	4:06
B2	Building Brains	2:33
B3	Lovesong	3:35
B4	Ash Grey As Sunday	3:49
B5	Reichsdorf Room 6	4:37

 
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