Octal Industries – Our Seasons

I’ve got a backlog of albums I’ve been meaning to post so I’m going to experiment with scheduling rather than throwing them all at you at once (I’m off work today).

This one is kind of mellow techno music with a soundscape feel though it often put me in mind of Organit despite the latter being more driving.

Reading the blurb is slightly confusing in regards to who this actually is, or maybe I’m feeling dense today. It seems to be Jonas Thor Gudmundsson (aka Ruxpin) doing the music though other names are mentioned but I suspect they are more to do with being labels or something. That may be less important than is often thought, though. I’ve often believed that music channels itself through people rather than people having some individual genius or something (ask me about my spookiest ever creative experience sometime) and the notion of the genius artist as we so often believe it is a misinterpretation based on our hyper-individualistic worldview stemming from the illusion of separation that undergirds our entire culture.

Here endeth todays sermon.

Jay Glass Dubs – New Teeth For An Old Country

Although that there image you see is a picture of yer actual cassette, I suspect such a thing is not available to us now as the page itself only sells the digital album. I don’t have a working tape player anyway.

THis is quite earlier in his career but I heard one of the tunes on a show that Bokeh Versions did which took me to the album, and this did really impress me, it did. I think this may be the first artist to whom you can apply the term ‘glacial’ that I have posted here. I may be wrong; my memory tends to be less reliable these days.

So it’s dark, cavernous dub/dubstep/dubtech/dub techno/ambient dub (call it what you will) and it knows where its groove is, particularly in the latter half.

I have occasionally listened to some of his other works and they’ve always intrigued me. I think this may be the prod to dive in a bit deeper.

Organit – Komplex²

I’ve done Organit before. But I like this as well.

I’m doing hypnotic electro stuff much more these days.

 

Organit – Komplex

Music doesn’t need words, except for the words contained in the music (if any). Music doesn’t need a reason, except for the reason contained in the music, or the music contained in the reason.

I’ve not made sense yet, and I’m not likely to any time soon. But I do like to revel in the unexpectedly welcoming sonic waystations I find in my mental travels, or travails, insert as appropriate. Is insertion ever appropriate? I really hope so, and soon, but that’s a different story.

You mean this is a story? Why didn’t you say?