- Synth-pop
- Alternative
pop
- Electronic music
- Electro pop
- Kraut-electro
Comment: On the
sleeve of this 8-track outing being released on the Chilean imprint
Pueblo Nuevo is depicted a stylophone, the miniature stylus-operated
keyboard which was invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis and introduced by
such luminaries as John Lennon, David Bowie and Kraftwerk. In
principle, the instrument conjures up a buzzing, thick drone-drenched
sound. Additionally, the old and analogue electronic keyboards
undergo a renaissance. All what is closely related to the music I
guess it can be considered acceptable regarding technological
progression and mechanical triumph. Or can we in fact? For instance,
in the USSR the military complex built up synthesizers at idle time.
It is like laundering money to have a spotless, moral outlook. By
philosopher Lewis Mumford the aforementioned mechanical triumph has
gone on side by side with social distraction regarding a historical
horizon. We are subjugated to such confused pragmatic abstractions as
money and credit and certain kinds of political systems we used to
think of them as things on their own or as clear realities though
they are strictly human related and thereby contingent. All that bad
happened because of having no counterbalance to the technological
triumph. We ardently used to believe in that by avoiding thinking of
possible adverse effects. The sort of inferior stuff which is
considered superior than the phenomena deserve to be. It is the
reason why the moral life and principles deteriorate because the
people are stupid enough by having no common sense to distinguish the
real entities from the sphere called
doxa if to employ the
terminology of Plato. Indeed, we are still living in a cave where
shades overwhelm our senses. Could it be said about the music as well
I would like to say no. Music and the art in general leap over the
progressions and regressions, over the ebbs and tides by avoiding
instrumental values of which final purpose and real nature may be
quite unclear and even self-destructive at worst. Baradit's release
is a fine example of poppy tendencies and smooth compositional
threads by getting formally inspiration from the 80s synthetic
aesthetic and on the other side being cranked up by the stimulus of
krautrock, the style of being analogous to the belief in an endless
motion. Of course, the real idea can be perceived by listening to old
krautrock releases, today's formats and ideas are quite petrified
just by following some remote echoes of the idea of the style. In a
word, it is a retrospective, enjoyable listening.
