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OGW - Lithopanspermia / Floppy Jazz

5/1/2016

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Let's start this review with one of my favorite quotes ever, Monty Python's '...and now for something completely different'.  Most of our readers will know by now that we're open to a lot of stuff.  So when I saw this mysterious CD in my mailbox this morning, I couldn't wait to check it out.  It came in an envelope but without any information or biography, which made it even more mysterious and exciting.  So I did a little research.

OGW is an electronic experimentalist from Ghent, Belgium.  That's about all I could find. I guess this is his debut, and what a strange piece of work it has become.  Do I really have to find references to this music?  I have to dig deep into my knowledge of electronic music to be able to come up with a bunch of artists and acts to relate to.  Yet, that's ok, I like a challenge once in awhile and I also like what I'm hearing.

What the album mostly reminds me of, might not be much of a compliment at first.  It reminds me of some of the bargain CDs I used to buy in local record stores, way back in the nineties and early two-thousands.  Now, I have to say that some of those album have become all-time favorites, more specific EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) and Paranonia.  Both albums are still in my collection and still being played on a weekly basis.

The album opens with 'Lithopanspermia' a broken techno track, mixed with minimal ambient and a hint of IDM.  That being said, Autechre is another band that often appears in my head while I'm listening to this, especially in the odd 'Floppy Jazz #1'.  'Slow Moving Rocks' digs deeper in electronic history, coming close to some pioneers of the electronic scene.  The lo-fi aspect here is also present, which brings me to acts like Cryovolcano.

Perhaps it's appropriate to simply name this 'alien dance music'.  When I close my eyes and allow mental visions, I can clearly see those little green men dancing on their little green planet far away in outer space.  It must be a wild party up there, completely out of this world.  But I guess that's exactly what 'alien' means, no?  Anyway, there might be a possibility that this album will be played a lot here from now on...


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