Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group: s/t 2LP (Sun Ark, 2013)
December 16, 2013 at 12:10 am | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group: s/t 2LP
Last time I saw Sun Araw, at this year’s SXSW, they (it was a duo this time) ended the set with an excursion into uptempo techno beats, which I definitely wasn’t used to from Sun Araw, but it was a pleasant surprise. Instead of releasing a new Sun Araw album based on techno beats, here’s a 2LP by a new side project exploring Sun Araw’s dancey side. Unlike Sun Araw’s carefully controlled dubby jam sessions, this seems like something playfully tossed off, just a bunch of friends with a roomful of vintage analog synths, making squirmy, bloopy sounds, and just generally having a blast. There’s no escaping dubby echo and delay, as there’s plenty of that here, but there’s such a fresh-faced fuck-it-let’s-try-anything approach to this. It doesn’t seem like they’re worrying too much about anything making sense, and I appreciate that. They just seem to get out of the way and let the robots take over. Very much a celebration, of music, of creativity, of synthesizers, of cool bloopy noises, of beats, of effects, of playfulness and joyousness in general. Definitely one of the more refreshing techno experiments to come out of the noise/experimental scene in recent years.
The Answer Is In The Beat 
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