Gerardo Delgado and Quinn Whalley are on a self-proclaimed mission to “save” acid house from “smiley faces, rave, and sugary excess”. I don’t know how I feel about that: I like rave, I’m happy to indulge the odd smiley face, and I’ve been known to be sucked in by sugary excess. Well, let us leave […]
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I had an odd moment when the first track here, Tale Of Devotion, started playing: it sounds uncannily like Jane Weaver covering I Feel Love. Which is not a bad thing, just a hard thought to get out of your head. The next track, Only For Tonight, is rather different: if we’re playing the likenesses […]
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Lone: Galaxy Garden (CD, R&S, May 2012)
I think it’s fair to assume that Matt Cutler has at least one 808 State record somewhere in his collection. Also early Aphex Twin and Steve Reich, but most of all the 808 State — there’s one sound that crops up a few times that could almost be sampled from Pacific State. I’ve got to […]
dogrando writes about some records 