Datasal - Totem Och Tabu

Höga Nord Rekords

£36.90

CAT NO.: HNRLP033
FORMAT: LP
RELEASE DATE: 15 Dec 2023
TERRITORY: Worldwide
BARCODE: 657039951096
GENRE: Electro / Leftfield / Techno

TRACK LISTING
A1. Talisman
A2. Taxi
A3. Max Ernst
A4. Skjuts
B1. Genom det förflutna
B2. Tyst Sol
B3. Huggtand
B4. Centralperspektiv
B5. DC-8

The word Datasal paints inner pictures for most people growing up in Sweden during the 1990’s. The datasal (a classroom for computers) was an ordinary classroom with few changes to fit the school’s 10 newly leased computers. The room represented the change of times in Sweden during this period: the fixed institutions and the awaiting digital flood wave.

The music of Datasal sounds captures the feeling of printing a downloaded picture of your favorite hockey player or music artist or the expectations building up as you wait for the modem to log in to interact with the thousands of users of the internet in 1995. The tracks this release manifests the excitement but also the bit of fright you felt connecting to the world in the mid 90’s - a time when the internet still was fun.

The sound is built around repetitive sequencer loops and programmed beats where electric bass, electric guitar and flute improvise around a theme, creating a sound that is best described as cosmic flute house. Datasal is an harmonic reminder of a time where digital progress seemed less harmful than today.