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When I hear the
name electronic music I can’t help think of people such as
Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream. Their long cosmic
soundscapes were OK to listen to in the complete darkness
whenever you were searching for your zen, but that's as far
as it went. Furthermore, at the time when I discovered these
artists, their music was only available on vinyl and with a
regular playing time of around thirty minutes a side, the
quality of those pressings was very fragile resulting in
music which sounded very bland. When you used an equalizing
system you could at least alter the sound a little, but it
all remained very repetitive and dull. With the arrival of
new wave, synths suddenly were used in a more rhythmic way
and due to people like Kraftwerk and Jean Michael Jarre as
well as Vangelis, electronic music suddenly got a new,
younger, more accessible image than the previous more boring
label which it had to carry.
Slovenian
musician MarryAnn luckily is one of the latter breed, using
a plethora of electronic instruments as well as rhythm
composers in order to deliver kind of a funky, danceable
album. It might be a little dated where certain sounds are
concerned, but I quite like what I've heard. I even hear
snippets of Jan Hammer woven through her compositions whilst
the uptempo "Night Generation" strongly reminds me of Yellow
Magic Orchestra. Surely she deserves to get recognized more
as plenty of garbage gets the mega promotional treatment
whereas this great sounding result is unknown to most
people. I really hope this review helps MarryAnn to get a
little bit of recognition and that her music, which is
available both as CD-r and as MP3 downloads, finds its way
to much more households. |
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