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Weekly mp3 #57: Tosca - Springer

Been a while since I linked to something on RCRDLBL.

Mellow opening electric piano chords. Downtempo metronome kick drum doofs along, brushed snares all jazzy-jazzying on top. A bass guitar lays out a bassline. Tinky palm mute guitar action and some gentle harmonics. More layers of clean guitar come along from time to time, sorta semi-Albatross, filling spaces when there isn't a tranquil Hill Street Blues Theme synth echoing about. Things build up a bit with some more elements, but mainly it's about cruising in the one mode.

This is not what Tosca used to be like - they were part of that Viennese downbeat thing with bods like Kruder & Dormeister (indeed the latter is in Tosca) - but here it sounds like they've jumped right on the (slightly uneasy) easy listening, slow-mo beardy disco sound. Mudd, Lexx, Lindstrøm, Prins Thomas, and labelmates Quiet Village (sometimes). As with all of these there's something that suggests Pink Floyd instrumentals more than it suggests dancefloor action.

Labels: music, weekly mp3

Posted at 6:00 PM