Circlesquare

Circlesquare - Dancers

Circlesquare's new album is called Songs About Dancing and Drugs.  It has that moody handmade electronic vibe, half techno half rock, that you find on Colder or Thomas Brinkmann's last album When Horses Die. Call it bedroom Joy Division.  It's excellent if you like shadowy synthetic sounds but also Leonard Cohen. The song 'Dancers' is my jam. There's a number of album tracks where the lyrics are positive but they're weirdly undercut by minor-key chords and deadpan singing..so when you hear "now we're all dancers.." it sounds oddly alienated. 

The key word in the title actually is 'about', it's all about the about. It's not songs for dancing and drugs, but about them. The whole record feels like you went out clubbing and partying and there was a big rush of sensations and you stayed out very very late and all your friends went home, and now you're back at your laptop with a midi board, and maybe the sun is coming up, and you should drink some water, and all the loud pulsing sounds, with firebomb bass and siren swirl, are still echoing somewhere in the back of your skull.

here's a mix from Circlesquare as well, more downtempo gothic beats for your solo trek home through the neon wilderness.

Circlesquare- "Super Late Night Music For People In The Dark" (DJ Mix)

Circlesquare- "Super Late Night Music For People In The Dark" DJ Mix

This Mortal Coil- Thais II (excerpt)

Glass Candy- Lovin Machine

This Mortal Coil- Thais II (excerpt)

October- Doxa

Circlesquare- Dancers (Konrad Black Remix)

This Mortal Coil- Thais II (excerpt)

Jefferson Airplane- Lather

Aphex Twin- Mookid

The 6ths- The Sailor In Love With The Sea

Circlesquare- Ten To One

Tones On Tail- Rain

Matias Aguavo- De Papel

October- Listen, Move, Dance

David Bowie- Up The Hill Backwards

This Mortal Coil- Thais II (excerpt)

Circlesquare- Music For Satellites

This Mortal Coil- Thais II (excerpt)

Acid Symphony: "So Run the Tears As Wine"

Oh man. John M. sent me this. It is some tv bit about a Finnish electronic musician who composed an "acid symphony" for the classic Roland 303 bass synthesizer called "So Run the Tears As Wine." No really, that's what it's really called. And he performs it with like five dudes all in tuxes, sitting calmly and tweaking 303 knobs. I wrote back to J, "this is really funny" and he replied "dude in dracula cape is totally serious." There's a part two up on youtube as well that you should see.

I also must say that I really like that it's not in any way a symphony. It's like a parodic version of Manuel Goettsching's e2-e4, which is an acknowledged classic and something like rave music for people with season tickets to Lincoln Center. "So Run The Tears as Wine" pretty much sounds like, uh, some acid techno.

please enjoy