N.I.C.E. selects 0039

30,000 ~ TOM OF ENGLAND

Following 2012’s acclaimed Tropical Psychedelics album, Los Angeles
electronic-psychedelic multi-instrumentalist, Eddie Ruscha returns to Emotional
Response with the second collection of cassette recordings.

Dating from tape recordings made between 1996 - 2012, Cosmic Vibrations follows the
Tropical Psychedelics (ERS003) album for the label, this time digging deeper in to the mind of Secret Circuit than the more dance floor inspired sounds heard on last years album Tactile Galactics album for Beats In Space.

Again we glimpse a melting pot of pyschedelia, techno, balearic and ambient to create an
electronic gem, but all done with a wry smile and jesters wink rather than today’s
penchant of moody seriousness.

Life on the US West Coast shines from the album, from opener Out West to She Got Love,
sunshine music that couldn’t be made anywhere else. It’s not all hippy-happy vibes though with Minimal Vibrations and the dub of Straightline taking things in to deeper and instropective territory.

However, all things resonate in Eddie’s analogue meets kitchen sink synthesis. Layer after layer floats across the album to create a smile-inducing whole. Journeying from the folk guitar of Somnambulation to the minimilism of Glass Skeletons, before bidding a fond farewell in the apt, Bells.

This second and final collection of early cassette works is not an end, but a blessing.

A1. Out West

Taken from the Bass Clef album 'Reeling Skullways' (Punch Drunk)
Vinyl and CD avaiulable to buy at http://www.punchdrunkmusic.com

30,000 ~ TOM OF ENGLAND

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