Pye Corner Audio

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by N.Sputnik | May 12, 2011

I have been enjoying the sounds of Pye Corner Audio for a couple weeks now. It takes a minimal approach to synth and drum machine music that sounds like it could have been made between 1979 and 1983 had most electronic musicians not had the baggage of trying to imitate real instruments or show off their musicality chops or care about tape noise. Some song are reminiscent of Boards of Canada minus the harsher IDM type sounds or a lo-fi Ladytron minus vocals. Or the BBC Radiophonic Workshop circa 1975 minus all their Synthi gear and multiple tape machines and instead given only pre midi Roland synths and rhythm composers and a cassette deck. Or Autecher sent in a time machine back to 1981, asked to make a horror and nature soundtracks and library music. Or if you sent Bibio in a time machine back to 1979 and asked him to co-produce something in Kraftwerk's studio along with Nick Rhodes or Nile Rodgers or Brian Eno. My faves are Electronic Rhythm Number Four. Theme Number Six sounds like lofi Autecher while Electronic Rhythm Number Seven reminds me of Ladytorn's track Fire, but maybe less so now they I have listed to them back-to-back.

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