Between Erwin Broers & Paul Asbury Seaman I have been exposed to a ton of excellent berlin-school music over the last couple years. Erwin contines his great string of mixes with this new one featuring the music of Wolfram Spyra. I was totally unfamiliar with this music before hearing this mix and now I'm thankful for the introduction.
Here's what Erwin says about this mix:
"In the mid-1990s, when interest for 'Kosmische Musik' (German)/'Cosmic Music' (English) regained, some Electronic Music artists chose to dig deeper into that first highly creative era, hence starting the 'Retro Berlin School' subgenre. Other artists merely borrowed certain elements (multi-facetted sequencing, layered soundscapes, space fx, Mellotron choirs,...) and then added their own spices to the sauce.
One of the artists that managed to create his own style of contemporary "Berlin School Electronic Music" is the German Fine Arts student (then), and musician, inventor and sound designer (now, dixit his own website) Wolfram Spyra (Kassel, 1964), aka "Der Spyra" or simply "Spyra". His style is somewhere between floating, rhythmic, meditative, downtempo and groovy, yes almost danceable. A very interesting blend of old skool and modern electronic ingredients!
This mix is a chronological overview of 20 years of releases from 1997 till 2018."
More information:
Discogs: www.discogs.com/artist/13462-Spyra
Website: www.derspyra.de
Bandcamp: wolframspyra.bandcamp.com
Cheers!
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T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00:00 Future Of The Past (2000 remix)(Homelistening Is Killing Clubs, 1995)
- 00:07:15 Non Disperdere Nell' Ambiente Part 1 (Future Of The Past, 1997)
- 00:17:20 Seeds (My Little Garden Of Sounds, 1997)
- 00:28:55 Sferics (Sferics, 1998)
- 00:36:18 Monotonous Stereo Part 1 (Etherlands, 1999)
- 00:41:50 Ωmega Est αlpha (Phonehead, 1997)
- 00:56:16 Mentalized (Elevator To Heaven, 2001)
- 01:10:24 We Don't Mind The Rain (Virtual Vices IV (w/ Pete Namlook), 2003)
- 01:16:10 Aireals (Orphan Waves, 2006)
- 01:23:38 Last Train To Philadelphia (High Phidelity, 2007)
- 01:32:44 Below (Gasoline 91 Octane, 2008)
- 01:43:16 SeQuest (SeQuest (w/ Christian Lang), 2010)
- 01:50:21 Staub Part 2 (Dunst, 2018)
- 02:01:20 end
