Mindphaseone

mindphaseone: somewhere in the back of your skull, right before you fall asleep you know that headspace that little land between dreaming and the awake, a wave lengths away is the soundtrack for that space. Dreamy but coherent, intelligent yet intuitive, a music of cohesive contradictions. This isn't techno, and it really isn't ambient. It is a category on to itself. If John Cage wore rubber outfits he might music like this. The gear is all analog state of the art 1975: Arp, Moog, Roland (pre-midi) Oberhiem, Korg. This is what that the technology was made for. Music for the sub conscious mind.

This is a record, it's not like a lot of electronic records that are just assembled. There is a beginning a middle and an end, (remember when all records were like that) and a number of things that happen in between. This record has just as much in common with Cluster, and Brian Eno as it does Muziq and Orbital. mindphaseone are analog purists, this a collection of songs recorded in one take, no multi tracking or any of that fancy boy stuff, this is the real thing. Almost no digital samples, but a lot of found sound via turntable.

Two of the three members (John Golden, Mike McClure) are the driving force behind the ElectricMusic FoundationLobel, a techno staple. They are also the evil geniuses behind hard acid fave Auto Kinetic. The Third (Dave Jarosz) is Minneapolis Master- of the beat DJ Drone, and owner of the famed Basement record shoppe.

What does the future sound like? I have no idea. What I can tell you is that mindphaseone is possibly the most compelling electronic record you will hear this year, simply stated this rocks.

- Chris Strouth for Ultra Modern (1997)