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 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.
Music magazine OOR reviews Split LP #4 by Garçon Taupe / Legowelt. We don’t need a lot of words to summarize the review, this will do: “World class electro. This album alone is enough reason to get yourself a record player.” Read the full review here (in Dutch). Also, the radio program Beautiful Extremes, online radio by Studio 80, played the track In Dark Trees by Legowelt from Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World and the track Huppy Capsule by Garçon Taupe from Split LP #4 by Garçon Taupe / Legowelt. Listen to the fragment from the broadcast on December 1 in the player below.
Dutch music magazine Oor calls Katadreuffe ‘the most talented band from Amsterdam’. In their review of Katadreuffe’s Quel Gargantua! EP they also say that the band sounds like a mix of jazzy hardcore with bits of noise madness. Read the whole review here.
