press release - Barry 7's Connectors
Hot on the heels of the widely acclaimed Nuggets - Luke Vibert’s Selection comes another most unusual selection of prime 70s library music, this time selected by Barry 7, renowned exponent of the most eclectic DJ sets in town and member of avant electro pop terrorists, Add N To (X).
70s library music, you say? A kind of musical wormhole, wherein experimental music could be made, issued in quantities of 200 and still get played 30 years later. No wonder it’s popular with the likes of Aphex Twin, David Holmes, Beck, Andy Votel, The Beta Band, Andy Weatherall and Coldcut.
Less on a fried funk trip this time, Barry 7’s selection is more of a ‘relax your mind and float downstream’ psychedelic odyssey. An alternative chill out album, if you like, ranging from blissed out easy vibes reminiscent of Lemon Jelly, to the dark ambience of ‘Scared Trip’ by one Doris Hays
In this parallel universe, classic tunes such as the superb ‘Solar Flares’ rub shoulders with weird electronic experiments from the secret laboratory of Cecil Leuter and Georges Teperino by way of Venusian coffee table music, the slick space funk of Sven Libaek’s ‘Quasars’, Paul Bonneau’s eerie sci-fi vibrations, and the Joe Meek in outer space of Eric Peter’s ‘Electronic Rhythm’.
Proving once again that there is more to library music than kitsch pop and that sometimes to move forwards, you have to go back.
release:Barry 7's Connectors
label: Lo Recordings