On Friday August 27 2010 we will celebrate out 10 year anniversary at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam. Coen Polack and Stijn Dissen of Narrominded were invited by Amsterdam FM to promote that evening of fine music and talk about Narrominded in general. Listen to the hour long broadcast from August 17 in the player below or click here to download it.
Here’s a list of the tracks they played:

Hydrus – Sand (from Nodes EP, to be released fall 2010)
Puin + Hoop – Bomendocumentaire (from Door, to be released September 2010)
Hunter Complex – Sunset Smoke (from Heat, to be released 2011)
Fine China Superbone – Untitled (from Make-Machine, to be released September 2010)
FFF – Sky Saw (from Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World, 2009)
Coen Oscar Polack – Reigeronvangst (unreleased)
Gar̤on Taupe РLobo (from Wittenburg EP, Narrominded Split LP Series #4, 2009)

The limited cd / free download Quasi Quasi by Kruno JoÅ¡t | Gijs Borstlap is only out for two weeks, but already received some raving reviews. Vital Weekly says their music is ’a curious hybrid of improvisation meeting noise meeting drone meeting rock’ and thinks that it’s ‘a trip that pays off.’ Subjectivisten / Caleidoscoop calls it a ‘fantastic project’ and Kindamuzik says that ‘the deconstructive Quasi Quasi shows that Narrominded, besides retro-electronics, is also deeply rooted in the current progressive improvisation music.’ Moors Magazine on Kutplaneet by Het Fukking Licht: ‘Absolutely recommended for the adventurous listener.’ Chain D.L.K. on the Hunter Complex debut album : ‘If you love all the kind of 80s wave bands, from Human League to ABC passing from A Flock Of Seagulls, Ultravox, Dalis Car or obscure cold wave bands, I suggest you to check Hunter Complex.’

Dutch magazine Oor wrote a very nice piece about our 10 year anniversary. Belgian e-zine Kwadratuur interviewed Lars Meijer about 10 years of Narrominded. They also wrote a review of the Here Is the Night EP by Hunter Complex and reviewed the track Here Is the Night (including streaming audio). Cheers to them!

The just released album Kutplaneet by Het Fukking Licht already got three reviews. Recent Music Heroes rates the album 7.3, Vital Weekly says it’s an excellent release and Subjectivisten/Caleidoscoop calls it a ‘geweldige kutplaat!’. The Hunter Complex debut album got a review on the blog Terrible Music: ‘What really makes this music so outstanding is that you hear classic 1980′s synthpop elements but still all sounds very fresh.’ The Dutch magazine Fret also reviewed Hunter Complex (read here), and also The Almighty Internet by Spoelstra (read here). Online radio show Beautiful Extremes played the track Unique Visitor by Spoelstra. Listen to the fragment from the broadcast on May 4 2010 in the player below.

The almighty Spoelstra did a live session for Radio Broedplaats, a radio show on Unity FM. The host also asked the wizard some questions. Click here to download the session and interview or stream it in the player below. Click here for some pics of the session and here for a short review. Spoelstra also gave an in depth interview with Incendiary Magazine. You can read that one here.

VPRO’s Radio 6 programme De Wissel devoted an entire show to Brian Eno’s Another Green World last Saturday. Host Aad van Nieuwkerk plays tracks from the original album back to back with interpretations taken off our Retro Retry 2 cd. Meanwhile, he takes us on a walk through Scotland and London, and speaks about the history of the album, about Eno’s working methods, his inspirations and his guest musicians. It’s a very interesting listen, and it’s available in streaming audio on De Wissel’s blog where you can also read more about Another Green World in general and this show in particular (in Dutch).

The British online music magazine Sonomu reviewed Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World: ‘Taken as a whole it’s an admirable effort.’ Belgian music mag Kwadratuur reviewed The Almighty Internet by Spoelstra: ‘A mush of sweet 8-bit melodies.’ Roodkapje (Little Red Riding Hood in English) of the hipster magazine Vice didn’t like the Hunter Complex debut album and named it worst album of the month. Apparently Hunter Complex is not good music to wash dishes to. Too bad. The Here Is the Night EP by Hunter Complex did get a nice review by the Dutch music mag Fret: ‘Typical eighties synthpop of the same level as New Order and He Said.’ Beautiful Extremes, the online radio show by Studio 80, played two tracks from that EP, the album version of Here Is the Night and the Cosmic Manifestation Mix by Garçon Taupe, and the track Day of the System from Spoelstra’s The Almighty Internet. Listen to the fragment of the broadcast on March 23 2010 in the player below.

Beautiful Extremes also played Apparatus Erectus by Spoelstra from The Almighty Internet on March 30 2010. Listen to that fragment in the player below.

The debut album by Hunter Complex gets positive reviews all around the world. Dutch music magazine Oor: ‘Beautiful, almost dubby synthpopdisco. Who wants to know how the future once sounded, finds comfort with Hunter Complex.’ The Belgian website Kwadratuur: ‘lightly disturbed synthwave songs!’ Dutch website File Under says ‘Hunter Complex sounds both icy cool as melancholically moving.’ Beats & Beyond rates the album 8,5 out of 10 and thinks ‘retrofuturism never sounded so fresh.’ The website Outlands, based in Macedonia, is also enthusiastic: ‘some of the songs are a real uncanny candies.’ Outlands also interviewed Hunter Complex aka Lars Meijer. The radio show Beautiful Extremes played the track Moonset by Hunter Complex on March 9 2010. Listen to the fragment in the player below.

Some people really hate Spoelstra’s music, but others try to get to the bottom of Spoelstra’s The Almighty Internet. ‘The rest of the world will look at him as a special kind and plays Spoelstra’s music as an acoustic weapon. I belong to that majority’, says Festivalinfo. The German magazine Aufabwegen sees a different purpose for Spoelstra’s electro music: ‘Musik für Sonnenstudios mit Anspruch’. Oor also has an interesting opinion on The Almighty Internet: ‘Irritate, that’s what Spoelstra does. And that’s a compliment in this case.’ Click here for some footage of Spoelstra live at Worm in Rotterdam and here for a review of a gig he did with The Ex and Julie Mittens in the Bar & Boos in Leiden. ‘Spoelstra’s set was quirky, irreverent, slightly demented and a hell of a lot of fun.’ The radio show Beautiful Extremes played the tracks Day of the System by Spoelstra and Here Is the Night by Hunter Complex on March 16 2010. Listen to the fragment in player below.

3voor12/Amsterdam interviewed Lars Meijer, the man behind Hunter Complex, about his debut album. He talks about the release party in Smart Project Space (check out the video and the pics from that evening), his influences, the eighties and his plans for the future. Read the interview here (it’s in Dutch).