Space Oddities
What:
Space Oddities: A compilation of rare European library grooves from 1975-1984
Who:
V/A compiled by Alexis Le-Tan and Jess
On:
Permanent Vacation
Where:
Online at Phonica Records, iTunes, or email Permanent Vacation
Related links:
MySpace / Alexis Le-Tran and Jess Ace Oddities mixtape
The adage everything old becomes new again holds on this mind-blowing compilation of 'rare European library grooves' courtesy of Munich's Permanent Vacation label. Compiled by the enigmatically named Alexis Le-Tran and Jess, Space Oddities takes in 19 super-obscure cuts from subscriber-only library music albums used to score European film and TV productions from 1975-1984. Only a handful of people would have heard this stuff at its time of release, so, for us Southerners anyway, everything here is brand new - and sounds it - more 'cosmic' and freaked out than all this season's Italians Do It Better and Lindstrom hype combined.
In the spirit of original library records, the sleeve notes have sense-heavy descriptions of each track - with things like 'a strictly instrumental take on the deep-house genre with an erotic mood', 'the kind of track all the dealers would start moving to at a NYC block party circa 1976', and 'a slow esoteric cruise in the land of the robots' indicative of the kind of seriously fresh-bent material included. Nothing sounds even remotely human - all is strictly outer-space, synthetic, the desires of a dance addicted extraterrestrial made real. Patient, flowing, textured disco experimentation from a faraway-so close European era.
Release: Compilation
To Cure: A predictable playlist
Keywords: Robots, Dance, Experimental, Disco
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