Apparently, I buy too many records

My wife Helen, like every other woman i've ever lived with, believes that I buy too many records.

Which, as every record-buying man knows, is a ridiculous belief.

I will concede, however, that I do indeed buy a lot of records and that I don't afford them the same amount of listens and attention that I did 20 or 30 years ago.

To this end, I have decided to blog about the records that I buy, in order to help my appreciation of them - and perhaps to show Helen that I don't buy that many records after all.

Because i'm crap with deadlines the blog posts will be sporadic and probably be about a month or 2 behind but that's just the way i am! The posts will not necessarily be actual reviews (most likely comments, at best) and will generally be pretty damn short due to the reasons outlined above. As a writer in a previous existence i have decided not to worry about writing as art in the pieces but, instead, to attempt to convey feeling over semantic (and often grammatic) perfection.

And 'OCRB'? It stands for 'Obsessive Compulsive Record Buying' - a little known mental health affliction that is potentially damaging to the bank account but ultimately life-affirming. It is sad.......but a nice form of sad.

Tuesday 8 March 2011

Majeure/Sankt Otten: Split LP (Denovali)

Majeure (A.E Peterra, Steve Moore's partner in Zombi) has a problem. This problem is called 'The Dresden Codex' and it is the 14 minute first track from 'Timespan', his debut (and only) album. The Dresden Codex is so amazingly epic and so epically amazing that anything else he does struggles to stand next to it. The first 2 tracks on his side barely enter your consciousness, they are so slight and unimposing; but the 3rd track 'Aleph Institute' is mighty and really exciting - taking on his familiar Vangelis/KlausSchulze referencing sci-fi disco music and overlaying it with some horror movie tribal powerhouse drumming of the like that  made his album so exciting. It has a hypnotic effect second to none.  Sankt Otten have no such weight of expectation from me and so excelled at being compellingly atmospheric that they astonished me when their equally powerful drumming came into earshot - here was me expecting  a pretty little bit of electro ambience and they go and and drum all over it, running roughshod over my hastily assembled preconceptions. A beautiful heavyweight gatefold sleeve makes this album even more recommendable.
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