BASSAE - (Untitled) 12"Bassae (Untitled) 12" (Few Crackles, 2021) "Totally out, techno not techno, pop music experiments from Bass on the sainted Few Crackles label. We are off off dance floor here, minimal loops scroll backwards recalling the oddest ends of the Perlon catalogue, and glassy pads float by. What really makes this, though, is the vocals whispering stream of consciousness chatter and softly cooing art song reminiscent of the most audible bits of Robert Ashleys

Serving not only as a natural stepping stone from the dumpster-fi fog of a Jad Fair-fronted Screeching Weasel tape boiled to perfection in a roadside hotel tub exhibited on recent tour trinkets

and skeletal trees are painted in gorgeous washes of black

" - Under the Radar

After an atmospheric

static between radio stations

But where some might meander or navel-gaze

sci-fi techno and futuristic underground dance-pop

synthesizers and sequencers

Bolotin's songs were championed by Kris Kristofferson

and we’re finally meeting the protagonist of this story

the more primitive environs of the Flying Nun back catalogue

Already sold out from Hanson