Con ~ Conrad Schnitzler
'Con’ aka ‘Ballet Statique’ is a totally classic peak in the singular canon of Conrad Schnitzler, the godfather of kosmiche and legendary pioneer of independent DIY electronics.
Resurfacing for the first time in a decade, 1978’s evergreen ‘Con’ is still future-proofed by its steely minimalism and spacey mind-drift pull. It stands out as a definitive number in the near endless reels of pulsating proto-techno that Schnitzler specialized in and brought to the likes of Tangerine Dream and Kluster from the late ‘60s, and its really not hard here to register how his music would pave the way for everyone from Mika Vainio to Plastikman and Buttechno.
While there was certainly no shortage of artists making pulsing electronic music in the ‘70s, as proved by the groundswell of reissues in the past 10 years, the crisp lines and sleek melodies of ‘Con’ stand out from the crowd thanks to Schnitzler’s crisply minimalist and eloquent articulation of electronic music which betrayed a familiarity with his machines that most artists can only aspire to. In interplanetary steps the album takes us from gyrating deep space to the eternal Kraftwerkian elegance of ‘Ballet Statique’, and the celestial tracking of ‘Zug’ to the kind of scorched earth atmospheres in ‘Black Nails’ that would also make this work, and the likes of 1988’s ‘Conditions of A Gas Giant’ a key touchstone for black metal, techno, noise and all sorts of music we all hold dear.
Track list:
00:00 Electric Garden
12:50 Ballet Statique
17:53 Zug
23:37 Metall I
28:36 Black Nails
-
59:26
Trumpet Daily
1 day ago $3.29 earnedHamas Has a Friend in the Biden Administration - Trumpet Daily | June 21, 2024
11.5K29 -
1:13:51
Edge of Wonder
22 hours agoCIA Remote Viewed Jupiter, New Spider-Man Mandela Effect & Weird News
47.8K24 -
1:41:29
2 MIKES LIVE
22 hours ago2 MIKES LIVE #81 OPEN MIKE FRIDAY!
27.8K5 -
1:10:19
Wendy Bell Radio
5 hours agoPet Talk With The Pet Doc (CBD and Mushroooms for Pets)
31.4K13 -
42:43
The Why Files
3 days agoProof of Life After Death: Hope and a Warning From The Other Side
60.4K143 -
1:40:35
Flyover Conservatives
15 hours agoShocking Facts about the Largest Structure EVER Built by Man - Conspiracy Conversations (EP #40) with David Whited - Timothy Schwab
43.6K27 -
10:03
JoBlo Horror Originals
1 day agoThe Running Man: What Happened To This Adaptation?
29.2K26 -
41:59
Destene and Brandon
1 day agoTHE SECRET IS OUT!!! WE'RE HAVING A......
52.8K16 -
4:12
Hack
1 day agoWhat can be made out of plastic bottle lids
44.5K2 -
13:07
Exploring With Nug
1 day ago $0.03 earnedFailed Justice: 4-Year Sentence for Man Who Murdered Young Girl
50.1K51