Welcome to WEEK 199 of 4T! (Video Episode #25) Making Art from Digital Noise – George Kranz & The Art of Noise (1984-87) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Fy0ouoJdrSdsGY1e632An?si=Zl0pU7BITmG0S5kR_x7qEA Instrumentals, especially dance instrumentals, can be super boring. Most of them exist solely to keep the beat & mood going in a club or mix. Comfort food for ravers. With that in mind, and with the strict rules put on songs like this (long intros, BPM within a very small range, breakdowns and buildups coming as expected), not a lot of thought has to go into creating for a dance instrumental to work. And that’s totally fine – it serves its purpose to a T. BUT there are artists who have
Welcome to WEEK 198 of 4T! (Video Episode #24) Super Album Slam Jam Round 2 – Psychedelic Furs, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Yes – (1971-1989) Don’t Test Me on Genre https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4YyNKnWNagG0Qun9i78zeH?si=wF-CC4r4QFG1TqS_V6fxyQ Following along with last week’s housecleaning, this week is a smaller and – to me – slightly less significant batch of albums. Their greatest commonality is that they almost exactly span what would be considered my “childhood years”. Other than that it’s a damn eclectic mix of artists whom you’d be hard pressed to find listed in the same genre, let alone the same playlist. It’s how I roll. SO … off the top of my head: Psychedelic Furs --Mirror
