A collection of short electronic pieces that mostly sound like various
warning tones from a Nuclear power plant control desk,when approaching
critical mass and inevitable meltdown.All the irradiated workers have
left, and there's no-one there to hear the music of a dying
technology......except Schlafengarten with his cassette recorder. This
is post Tsunami Fukushima disco musick for all doomed Nuclear emergency
rescue volunteers everywhere.
In between the malfunctioning Klaxons and distorted factory standard
mobile ring tones, we have the odd, and the very odd, little electro-pop
tune. Minimal- wave post- Industrial synth-pop for Marvin the Paranoid
Android....."Life!?....Don't talk to me about life!"
Track Listing:
A1
Hexus
A2
Nexus
A3
Plexus
A4
Sexus
A5
Texus
A6
Dismissal
A7
Radioheat
A8
Zero Cold
A9
Lassitude
A10
Sinking
A11
Pirouette
A12
Crawlspace
A13
CF
A14
Slowhands
A15
Nucleus
A16
Chatango
B1
Urge
B2
Gimmie Some Taint
B3
Court Dancers
B4
Heard You Call
B5
Jellybeans
B6
JM
B7
Like This
B8
Bow & Kneel
B9
GDVC
B10
Slide
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My rudimentary German translates this artist's name as "Sleep garden",
but relax, this guy ain't German, rudimentary or otherwise. In fact I
first encountered Schlafengarten on a shared cassette with DCMA
snitchers The Psyclones; who objected to their, admittedly, crap
cassettes once being featured on Die or DIY 1? Why? I dunno,maybe as they're
Californians, they were afflicted with that heinous disease, "The
Hollywood Syndrome". An affliction that invades the feeble ego's of many
a Z-list pop star.
This despicable syndrome doesn't seem to affect the geezer,although also
Californian, behind Schlafengarten.
This C-30 is also on the great Sound of Pig Label, run by that bloke
from The Styrenes, so things are looking good.
Thankfully, they also sound good.
The first side comprising of mainly minimal electronic pop songs,
suggesting an Indie Pop Residents, but NOT!
The Title Track, "Spring Cleaning", takes up side two, and is quite
superb. A jumble sale of a sound collage, mixing tape loops, fucked up
beats, and a myriad of delightfully half-assed tunes.
This is fine experimental Pop, in the tradition of the Beatles' "Whats
New Mary Jane" and "Revolution *9", or The Residents', "The Residents
Play The Beatles and The Beatles Play The Residents"; if I got that
right, 'cus I can't be fucking arsed to check!
I probably overplayed the quality of this tune, but I gotta write about
something ain't I? I could do what most Blogs do and just post a link
and a picture I suppose, but that's just a waste of the opportunities
that are provided by this vast medium called..."Thee inter-fucking-net";
the heir apparent of the humble Cassette.
Track Listing:
A1
And When U Sleep
A2
I Dont Wanna Hear About It
A3
You Feel
A4
Turn Away
B1
Spring Cleaning
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Dubbed up noisy soft-industrial electronica from Schlafengarten,
designed to appeal to the casual weed smoking cassette culture lounge
lizard.
Once we get past the white boy dub of the embarrassingly titled, "Ganja
Stomp", we are taken into the sound blender of the Schlafengarten
mixing desk; into a slow swirling whirlpool of rather pleasing tape
collage led electronica .
Track Listing:
A1
Ganja Stomp
A2
Private Blood
A3
Hi Hi Yessir
B1
Voices Of America
B2
The Frightening Truth
B3
News Into Noise
B4
Big Wow Take Out
B5
Casablanca / A Grapefruit Ending
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