I think the golden age of electronic music has passed. Not that it was here for long, but while it was, baby that was great. Most of today’s electronic artists are just hold outs from a better time.
Take for instances the down tempo mavens Tosca. A collaboration between European super producers Rupert Huber and Richard Dorfmeister (of Kruder+Dorfmeister fame). Tosca, as well as K+D, hit their stride in the mid nineties and have sort of stuck around since the bottom fell out of the electronic music market. And that’s cool. Way to be unflappable Germans.
Tosca’s new album J.A.C. (I’ll skip the boring explanation about how they named the album after their kids) is out now. Personally, I always liked K+D more then Tosca or even Peter Kruder’s side project Peace Orchestra. But I’ll take a new Tosca release any day. The majority of J.A.C. is decent – good down tempo electronica and most importantly, it’s coherent.
Stuff to Sample: From J.A.C. "Heidi Bruehl" and "Forte"
Damn it! Can you set up the sample links to open in a new window? I want to read about what I am listening to, and I am lazy! It is sooo much work to open up a new window. Hoho.
For a second, I thought I had heard Forte before, than I realized it sounded like some Architecture for HelsinKy (hoho). What does the rest of the album sound like? I dig these two tracks. It is good sunday morning cigarette and coffee music...well, in my case just coffee now! Damn it! I want one sooooo bad. Worse than I want the samples to open in seperate windows.
What, you can't right click to open a new window instead of a left click? Damn, you are lazy.
The rest of the album is pretty good.
And be strong, my friend, fight those cancer sticks, you don't need them.
[2] HAHA....I just learned something new! Yeah, I guess I am lazy.