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"Cathode Ray Tube is a multifaceted synthscaping electronic music project formed by Igloo’s own Charles R. Terhune. Before to go into this new EP I made a quick exploration on previous releases offered by this project. Two other albums have been published by Component as digital releases. The music encompasses a large spectrum of electronic music tendencies, from abstract ambient, to noisy drones and more groovy, advanced beat driven electronic shapes. An interesting mix of elements, schemes and rhythms for composite musical ambiences.
Urban Patterning reveals a more industrial-experimental inflected direction with remix support by Zyxt, Ukuphambana, Alpturer, Maduro, and Pattern Behavior. The more lugubrious and enigmatic dimensions of the music implicitly and conceptually refer to the idea of Urbanized isolationism, to the anguish qualities, eclecticism and challenges of our post-modern era. Consequently, and regarding the style, the musical pieces are rather plural, complex and inclusive. This album is a vast array of musical references with a constant taste for retro-cosmicadelic chills. The opening theme starts with a psychedelic cinematic sounding electronic composition with moving arpeggios and blissed out synth lines, somewhere between vintage soundtracks from the eighties, Tangerine Dream, Bernd Kistenmacher and other Berliners from the kosmische edge as well as more modern pulsating inclinations. Like many other tracks “A Close Second” cultivates once more this vintage retro electronic soul with abundant electro grooves, weird disco trance with a sci-fi tendency like you can find in Carpenter’s soundtracks or even in Cellutron & The Invisible, Mort Garson et al. “Gogolak 2″ is my favorite piece here: a shadowy, sinister, menacing but cool and punchy hypnagogic electro hymn with a catchy eighty feeling. A bad-ass track.
Urban Patterning is a dynamic, colorful and cinematic sounding electronic ambient album that will ravish fans of 70s/80s B-grade film scores from sci-fi to thrillers and twister experimental films."-Igloomag.com
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released May 7, 2015
SPECIAL THANKS TO: Jay, Alice, Sophia, Mom & Dad, Raab, Elizabeth V., Deftly D, Ukuphambana, Maduro, Zyxt, Alpturer, Gys & ALL MUSIC HEADS OUT THERE LISTENING, NODDING * DANCING.
keep on dreaming of spaceships and soundspaces unto the dawn you freaks.<message ends
PLAY LOUD AND OFTEN. IGNORE WHEN PLAYING FIRST THREE TIMES. AVOID DIRECT OBSERVATION AND ABSORB DIAGONALLY. this music is best played at full volume in EMPTY spaces such as: abandoned homes, derelict municipal structures, CRUMBLING SPORTS ARENAS, condemned housing developments, abandoned amusement parks, empty condominium complexes, defunct medical facilities such as hospitals and mental institutions, casinos and unfinished mansions.
WARNING: under no circumstances should this music be played in cemeteries or sites of atrocities or used in rituals of any kind.
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So happy I bought the vinyl, fantastic collection of Cevin's early music. Recommended if you're into Skinny Puppy or if you're a fan of early EBM, industrial or noisey beats! :) jeff
Prefuse 73 is on fire! New albums, singles, and now a Name Your Price collection of ethereal, jagged, & loopy joints. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 3, 2015