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Spoelstra
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Description: | CD on Narrominded |
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| Format: | CD | |
| Genre(s): | Electro/EBM | |
| Label: | Narrowminded | |
| Price: |
£7.49
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| Availability: | In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day. |
...according to our Brett on 22 July 2010.
Phil got Dave to watch '2 girls 1 cup' yesterday. Given the almost limitless potential for human advancement that the internet could provide, it's perhaps not surprising that that's pretty typical of where things tend to end up. Judging by his press release the man Spoelstra shares similar concerns and here gives something of a voice to the confusing information overload of what nobody calls the 'information superhighway' via his particularly skewed, chaotic and fun take on electro. There's quite often a regular beat going on but the general melodic feel is one of happy accident, random not in the ultra-programmed way you might expect from an electronica savant but in a more human, improvisatory way that might at first seem at odds with the super artificial sounds used (which frequently sound like those used on the MIDI soundtracks to primitive videogames) but makes perfect sense in the context of the concept; the internet being largely a massive humanity-reflecting improvisation in itself. Computer madness, as Steve Poindexter might say..
This is the electro album. Using the sounds of a synthesizer, a sampler and a bunch of effects, The Almighty Internet questions the importance of information technology in modern society. With the human race growing more and more dependant on all kinds of mobile communication devices, desperately trying to be connected to everyone and everything at any given time, spending the bigger part of the day staring at a monitor, being afraid of missing out on the latest information and feeling the need to share just about everything about the everyday personal life with countless others and calling them friends, the question arises: do we really need all this? Instead of coming up with an answer to this question, Spoelstra has been producing nine tracks combining rhythm driven electronics, (un)happily twisted synth melodies, slapstick improvisation and noise escalation.
1.day of the system 2.the almighty internet 3.fast downloading in las vegas 4.the classic handbuzzer 5.click white flag to quit 6.apparatus erectus 7.sixteen bit stare 8.grand theft autotune 9.unique visitor
