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Damn. This is ridiculous. Klaus Schulze and now this.

Live in the UK next month.

Live in the UK next month.

Catch him on the 22nd June.

The White Hotel, Salford.

I'm pretty sure Klaus Schulze probably deserves his own thread, given he was a pioneer of late 20th-century electronic music. Three of my favourite pieces from a long and prolific history. 1974, 1989 and 2018.

https://boomkat.com/products/in-every-dream-home-a-heartache-6e3a15a9-6f8d-4792-b0e5-c319afe2bce4 Twin Peaks and Melrose Place fiends beware: Lynch protégé Dean Hurley meets the none-more-enigmatic Romance for a spellbinding, scanline-obscured examination of VHS-frazzled post-vapor euphoric melodrama on a feature-length episode resourced from YouTube’s shared memory banks. Limited edition tape housed in a semi-opaque red case, including a download of the release dropped to your account. Since joining forces with David Lynch on 2007’s 'Inland Empire’ as a sound supervisor, Dean Hurley has worked with the cult US director on the majority of his projects, mostr famously as a sound designer on 2017's unforgettable ‘Twin Peaks: The Return'. On his own, Hurley has carved out a niche for a unique brand of burned melancholia that joins the dots between crumbled NYC illbient and stonewashed ambience - as heard on 2020's ace "Concrete Feather". Meanwhile Romance, whoever they, he or she might be, has spent the last few years proving to us that high and low art can exist simultaneously in perfect harmony, most recently sweeping Celine Dion samples into gut-wrenching Tarkovsky-esque mistral forms on the incredible 'Once Upon A Time'. Together, the duo divine a masterstroke of concept and execution, ‘In Every Dream Home A Heartache’ celebrates the pulpy, melodramatic appeal of daytime soap opera, and its now nostalgic allure, thru a finely smudged lens of rearranged samples from YouTube. Embracing the genre’s curdled glamour and heart-rending tension from temporally displaced, hauntological perspectives, the duo draw on rich online archives as well as personal repositories for a contemporary classic that echoes the groggy air of The Caretaker and Pinkcourtesyphone’s valerian vapours via mistily soft-focussed nods to Angelo Badalamenti and Mark Snow. Bathed in absorbing soft focus and the faint promise of menace in the air, the 13-part suite drifts scene to scene with a heart-in-mouth quality and flicker of intrigue that evokes the genre’s hyper-melodramatic examinations of moral conflicts, secret relationships, adultery, and familial turmoil amidst the mundane landscape of the domestic interior. Like the work of Hurley’s peer, David Lynch on the original Twin Peaks series, he and Romance wrest a poetry from banal conventions conceived to keep viewers hooked, dangling us by a silvery thread with their gripping yet ephemeral limning of life and death narratives and navigation of nostalgic chicanery. A smudged masterpiece, no less.

Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/last-index-of

This was a limited only tape on Boomkat about two weeks ago but the label have now dropped the digitals. Good stuff. Later pieces, like the unsettling 'Bergman Meow' - feeling like a more detached sense of wonder, peering down the wrong end of a telescope, with all the strange feelings, both lush and more frazzled, in the process.

Some 635 comments on that YouTube piece. He must have picked up a whole new audience after that Tik-Tok thing. Kirby goes mainstream.

I'm ready.

My opinion on this hasn't changed since the previews and track 9 is just, well, garbage. I can understand the Oversteps vibe as it does allude to that but I think it's more by accident than deliberate. I hope he still continues with the washed-out, fuzzy stuff he's well known for and doesn't try to become become the next Actress.

New Carmen Villain album out now. EP has a Huerco S. 9 minute reinterpretation of 'Subtle Bodies'.

I didn't like it so much but I'm always grateful for any heads-up.

@oscillik Can you remember one of his rarer pieces that had a sample from 'The Burning Bed' (1984)?

Agreed. And yet... I ordered straight away. Go figure. Kraftwerk know me better than I know myself.

Nah, I really loved Colonial Patterns, For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) as well as the QTT4 on Quiet Time Tapes. His new stuff is just not where I imagined him going.

me too.

I might be the only one on here but I think his new direction is utter bollocks. This new stuff has none of what made his music so special.

Out tomorrow. "Romance pen an extended love note to Celine Dion, re-imagining the Canadian icon's cultural locked grooves as a set of post-vaporwave crybient zoners that are part OPN's timeless "Eccojams", part "Disintegration Loops” Basinski and part Malibu/DJ Lostboi on ice." https://boomkat.com/products/once-upon-a-time-446b5d73-02f9-4d77-a9fe-f9af720deaa8

Love this girl. She's been consistently putting out really good, thought-provoking and challenging stuff the past few years. Here is her new one on Death Of Rave. https://boomkat.com/products/drowning-by-numbers-a747114a-1082-4a95-a328-407dbbd8432b

My copy arrived a few hours ago. Listened through three times. What an amazing piece of work. You can announce the album of the year already (20 days in LOL). There. I've called it.