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The Power Cosmic
The Power Cosmic is one guy. He's called Adam Harper and he sent my mate a copy of his E.P., which is free and really, really good. You can also download most of it off his myspace.
I hate using copious analagies, but his music IS like a casette of 70's library music; stock music for TV programs on a budget, usually composed by Eastern Europeans and/or French people. You'd find it in a box from the musty backrooms of the BBC, labeled 'This is the future' on a scrap of camera tape. It screams to be played alongside grainy documentary footage of conveyor belts in a new West German car plant, but simultaeously the garish black-on-yellow imagery on his site suits the music aptly.
Like Metronomy or About, he's making lo-fi electronic music with an ambiguous musical heritage. It's always so easy to compare this output to kraftwerk but there is clearly more than one band's influence at work here.
BAF
The Power Cosmic is one guy. He's called Adam Harper and he sent my mate a copy of his E.P., which is free and really, really good. You can also download most of it off his myspace.
I hate using copious analagies, but his music IS like a casette of 70's library music; stock music for TV programs on a budget, usually composed by Eastern Europeans and/or French people. You'd find it in a box from the musty backrooms of the BBC, labeled 'This is the future' on a scrap of camera tape. It screams to be played alongside grainy documentary footage of conveyor belts in a new West German car plant, but simultaeously the garish black-on-yellow imagery on his site suits the music aptly.
Like Metronomy or About, he's making lo-fi electronic music with an ambiguous musical heritage. It's always so easy to compare this output to kraftwerk but there is clearly more than one band's influence at work here.
BAF
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