COSMIC MACHINE - A VOYAGE ACROSS FRENCH COSMIC & ELECTRONIC AVANT GARDE 1970 TO 1980
Incredible
electronics from the French scene of the 70s – spacey, funky, trippy, and even
a bit clubby too – a perfect cross-section of all the cool analogue elements
that were ebbing forth from Paris at the time! A few of the bigger French
artists broke big on these shores – often paving the way for soppier work of
the next generation – but this set features a much deeper range of talents than
we ever would have expected – plenty of cats who easily match the most
experimental styles of the German prog electronics world, or the dark corners
of Italian soundtrack composers, or even some of the fiercer grooves to come in
the pre-house years in the clubs! Reading the set list, you might be surprised
to hear some of these artists in the same company as each other – but hearing
the set, you'll be wonderfully pleased at the way the whole thing comes
together – a great range of cuts that includes "Motel Show" by Pierre
Bachelet, "Shanti Dance (parts 1 & 2)" by Droids, "Magic
Fly" by Space, "Temps X" by Didier Marouani, "Le Reve"
by Patrick Juvet, "Le Bracelet" by Alain Gouraguer, "Rocket Man
(inst)" by Rockets, "Disco Energy" by Universal Energy,
"Love Machine" by Space Art, "Survol" by Francois De
Roubaix, "Le Physique Et Le Figure" by Serge Gainsbourg, and
"Spirit" by Frederic Mercier. ~ Dusty Groove
COSMIC EYE - DREAM SEQUENCE
The most
mindblowing work we've ever heard from guitarist Amancio D'Silva – a really
freewheeling blend of jazz and Indian music, and a set that goes far beyond
most of his other albums! The album definitely lives up to the dream sequence
promised by the title – as it features one long track that spins out in a
beautiful blend of tablas, sitar, flute, percussion, violin, and Amancio's own
great electric guitar! The leader crafts these trippy solos that are a bit like
the work of Gabor Szabo, but even more open-ended and exotic – and the group
also features some great work on sax from Alan Branscombe, plus violin from
John Mayer – who'd worked on previous experiments of this nature with Joe
Harriott. Despite the length of the track, the record is never over-indulgent
or repetitive at all – as D'Silva constantly shifts the mood and the sounds –
creating this wonderful interplay that really makes for a scenic richness
throughout – an evocative journey in music that holds us completely rapt all
the way through. ~ Dusty
Groove
THE ELECTRIC PEANUT BUTTER COMPANY - TRANS-ATLANTIC PSYCH CLASSICS VOL. 2
A really
wonderful collaboration between Shawn Lee and Adrian Quesada – and a set that
maybe goes further than a lot of recent work from the artists on their own!
Quesada's ear for the psychedelic mixes wonderfully with Lee's funky grooves –
in a space that's as trippy as it is soulful, and which wonderfully skirts a
space between all the different genres you'd be likely to find in the coolest
crate digger's collection! There's vocals on many tracks – but slung out over
core instrumentation that really gets things going from a soulful perspective –
so much so that even some of the more rockish moments soon get plenty funky.
Keyboards are wonderful, production is rock-solid, and the whole thing's
exactly the kind of nugget you'd guess from the title. Tracks include
"Going In Circles", "Christophe Waltz", "Tape
Lifter", "Cold Blood", "Dreams", "Mono Man",
"Big Tweed", and "Backstreet Wall". ~ Dusty Groove
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