Weekly mp3 #156: I Heart Lung - Interoceans II (Strategy Remix)

Some great post-post-lounge-dub-Kraut-good-times.  Listen or download at the Asthmatic Kitty label.

The tune's a bit like last week's number, but even more swirly and washed out. It's got a vaguely home organ sounding rhythm section of drum machine and rounded bass, with washes of drifty stuff on top. It pretty much just roams about pleasantly, but, you know, I like it a lot. Reminds me plenty of 90s ambient gear like the inaptly named Datacide.

Funniest when said aloud, I Heart Lung is an American duo consisting of two men called Chris Schlarb and Tom Steck. Well, they're not both called both those names, they've got one each. Strategy is another American man, called neither Chris Schlarb nor Tom Steck, who makes an interesting mix of ambient and sort of analogue dub-funk with lots of home made vocoders and echo machines.