06/12/2021
Atonal review @ Vital Weekly.
The relaunch of SPH is further celebrated with a compilation of which the title is the program, althugh not really an encyclopedia, this cassette contains household names from the world of cassetes from the 80s and 90s. At least, to me they are household names (save for Enkidada). I am not sure if these are new recordings by these musicians, or something that SPH had in their cupboard for all these years. I couldn't say from the music, to be honest. All of these pieces sounded as if they were made 25 years ago, which perhaps they were. I was thinking that if these were made recently, then maybe some of these musical projects didn't have much development over the years. Who knows? This compilation is a lovely sample pack of the wide territory of musical interests from those years. The poppy sound of Mr Ebu versus the noise of Astro, and everything in between. As such this compilation does exactly what I wanted from a compilation back then. Hear some of my favourite musicians doing new music (Randy Greif, PBK, La Sonorite Jaune, Comando Bruno) and discover some new names; well, oke, in that sense this didn't work this time, as said, because Enkidada was the only new name, but this compilation gave me that warm nostalgic feeling of olden days, pouring over such releases. The two catalogues SPH mailed, Xeroxed and all, enhanced that feeling strongly. (FdW)
