Beko DSL x La Station Radar.
January 10, 2011, 0 comments
2011 officially kicked off last night when the stellar folks from across Old Father Rhine, French labels Beko DSL and La Station Radar, joined their mighty forces to bless the world with a ridiculously excellent compilation. Eleven tracks with some of the finest stuff underground pop has to offer at the moment, ranging from the twisted sweetness of Ela Orleans and Terror Bird to Wet Hair‘s and Jeans Wilder‘s weirdo approach to pop music and the impending darkness of the psychedelia by Skitter or Archers by the Sea.
My personal highlight – people who’ve been reading these pages for a while now might have guessed so – is Phrenesia by my long time obsession Holy Strays aka Sebastien Forrester, a marvelously captivating track that might mark a slightly new artistic direction for my favorite psyched-out Parisien, as his music apparently has silently stepped out of the dark and sultry tropical forests of his previous work on Hyperion and into realms of a still gloomy yet slightly glamorous world of sleeky synth madness with some rad touches of dark wave. Absolutely intriguing.
Check out Phrenesia and Terror Bird’s wonderful Can’t Tell What’s Real as well as the amazing video for Ela Orleans’ Black and White Flight below, and then head over here to download the whole thing for free right now, cause musically, 2011 possibly can’t get any better than this.
