Kontakte
Soundtrack To Lost Road Movies

This record left our Phil feeling happy.

Kontakte have a CD out on the Drifting Falling label this week. It's been a strong label so far with top releases by Televise, Opressed By The Line, Matt Batram and lots more I'm too lazy to mention. If you're not familiar with the labels sound then I'll tell you. It's for the more shoegazey and etheral types and this new Kontakte CD fits in perfectly. Interestingly it's an album of 2 halves, with the 1st half being 6 new songs and the 2nd half being remixes by folks like Matt Bartram, Tim Holmes (Death In Vegas), Opressed By The Line, Twelve (Chris Olley from Six By Seven) etc. This is a bit more noisy than previous releases on the label.... it's almost a bit post rock at times but it's heart is all shoegazey. Though Brett has said the opener sounds like a Mogwai song and the 2nd track has a bassline of an old Verve song. There's defo bits of Mogwai in there.......what with the tinkly piano and post rock electronics with big feedbacky guitars. The remixes jazz things up a bit with the Electric Loop Orchestra mix (Death In Vegas chap) doing the biz for me. Some nice lovin' on here if you're into shoegazey post rock gear. Soundtrack To Lost Road Movies is CD only!

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What their label says...

'Soundtracks To Lost Road Movies' is the debut full length from London based band
kontakte, highlighting their penchant for pushing the limits of the sonic-spectrum,
combining ethereal melodies, celestial tones and a pulsing electronic backbeat to produce
a hypnotic noise with depth, space and staggering intensity.
The second half of the album features some of kontakte’s contemporaries with remixes of
album tracks. The instrumental nature of the music lends itself well to reinterpretation,
perhaps most evident with Tim Holmes (Death in Vegas/Electric Loop Orchestra),
remix of 'Ghosts Of Electricity'. Holmes transforms the composition until it seems as if the
music is running backwards, forwards, sideways, up, down, inside and out. This serves as
one highlight of a remarkable debut album also featuring remixes from Twelve (Chris Olley
of Six. By Seven), Winterlight, Polysicness and fellow Drifting Falling artists Matt Bartram
(Air Formation) and Oppressed By The Line. These mixes embellish and enhance the source
composition by infusing their own unique sounds and textures always nding fresh
moments of breathtaking beauty.
In the two short years since kontakte’s inception, the band has completed a successful two
week UK tour with Norway's Lionheart Brothers and established themselves by performing
intense live shows earning them journalist praise and support slots with bands such as
The Early Years, 120 Days, Asobi Seksu, M83, Six. By Seven, Vessels, Redjetson and Can's
Damo Suzuki.
Recommended if you like
Neu!, The Early Years, Having your face ripped o

KONTAKTE
SOUNDTRACKS TO LOST ROAD MOVIES
01 Pacic Coast Highway
02 Motorik
03 Ghosts of Electricity
04 Life’s Road Movies
05 Sterile World
06 Two and a Half Thousand Miles
07 Pacic Coast Highway (Twelve Remix)
08 Motorik (Matt Bartram Remix)
09 Ghosts of Electricity
(Electric Loop Orchestra Remix)
10 Life’s Road Movies (Winterlight Remix)
11 Sterile World (Polysicness Remix)
12 Two and a Half Thousand Miles
(Oppressed by the Line Remix)

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