Krautrock legend Harald Grosskopf is back with his version of Glitches Brew, that is in no way as controversial as Miles Davis Bitches Brew was, he is the latest act to choose to record electronica albums called Glitches Brew. He takes inspiration Miles Davis landmark album for this journey into Harald's spatially aware modern electronica. The album was recorded at his Garden studio mainly using digital instruments recorded through an analogue desk onto two track tape.
The album opens with Leisure Life feeling like it could soundtrack a 70's advertorial film for one of the then forward-thinking leisure centres, like the Sobell Sports Centre, the glacial synths patterns evolve, while the cameras spin around the concrete brutalist exterior, slowly going within, floating over the swimming pool and through the gymnasiums and basketball courts.
Spheroids builds around an insistent but basic drum part, synths circling the kit and enveloping the listener with sulphurous beats floating out to space, glitchy phasers shooting across the room.
Flow with sinuous synths, drifting down that lazy river, over slow shaken percussive parts engendering feelings of calm, blissed out awareness, perfect to drift aimlessly across the water. Things slow down to a meander while the bass notes keep solid time and weird noises glitch through the mix.
Stranger Strings may seem other worldly and quite spectral, but are not that strange, other of course than this is mainly synths and gadgets, no strings appear to have been plucked, bowed or strummed in the creation of Stranger Strings which may of course be why they are strange.
Panta Rei is rather dreamy journey into the ether, synths winding their way around the ever-evolving drum pattern that drops out, leaving synths to glitch and metastasize through wave forms across the click track, aware of new horizons being crossed.
Lilalu is finger snapping cool synths with the songs title being the only vocals on the albu, evoking a Hawaiian themed space station, with weird alien animal noises whistling through the trees.
The album closes with Kalter Arm a laid-back ambient synth tune that glitches into a more dance-based part, the beats build and spectral awareness opens things out, while being in no way inspired by the Canadian melodic death metal Kalter movement, this is more for gazing at your fish tank and enjoying the movements of the fishes too.
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