BRAINWAVE RESEARCH CENTER aka CHASE SMITH - Fig 1

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: BRC01
Release Date: 23 Jan 2023
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

Fresh, warm and spontaneous - brainwave research center's eight track debut album is everything that electronic music sometimes forgets to be. Recorded and produced in the back of Smith's synthesizer/electronic repair shop, Specs Sales & Repair, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the project is a joint collaboration between NYC-based house/techno producer, Chase Smith (W.T. Records, Apartment, is/Was), & documentary filmmaker, Christa Majoras (School of Visual Arts).
Described as a distillation of influences from experimentalism of Steve Reich, Laurie Spiegel and Black Dice, the 90s ambient techno of The Orb and Pete Namlook/Fax and more motorik flavours like Kraftwerk, Suicide, Manual Gottsching, it's a gentle but lively affair from the Art Of Noise-esque 'ah ah ah ah ah' and bubbling jam 'Bird Brain' to the epic arpeggios v guitar closer 'Day Dreaming'. This is first of four releases that the artist has planned, but there's certainly enough here to get your teeth into for now.

1. "(It's) Possible"
2. "Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah"
3. "A Clear Sky At Night"
4. "Bird Brain"
5. "Does Your Dog Bite"
6. "Earth Music"
7. "Sea Moss"
8. "Day Dreaming"

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