
Panoramic Coloursound 3LP
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The venerable Dark Entries celebrates it’s 300th release with Panoramic Coloursound, a triple LP from the Creative Technology Consortium. Traxx, Andrew Bisenius, and Jason Letkiewicz forged the CtC during the depths of pandemic isolation. Drawing from film and television music of the 80’s/90’s and armed with a mighty array of vintage analog and digital synthesizers, they set out to explore heists, vices, and catastrophe. Panoramic Coloursound collapses sound and image into a neon blur throughout its 25 tracks.
While retro scores were the starting point for the CtC, the project does more than pay dutiful homage — these notes are warped and skewed, devolving into decaying digital soundscapes. EBM-inflected basslines pop up on tracks like “Catastrophe” and “A Retro Vice”, menacing numbers that recall Traxx and Letkiewicz’s legendary work as Mutant Beat Dance (a project also featuring Beau Wanzer). “Follow Our Kode” pairs heroic synths with funky bass, striking cosmic chords akin to the material that Traxx and Bisenius have released as An Anomaly. Krautrock-esque guitars slide along anthemic pads on “Beautifully Polluted Sunset”, which comes across like an alien Miami Vice closing theme. The CtC channel corroded VHS vibes while making music for the future. Panoramic Coloursound was mastered by Frédéric Alstadt. The sleeve was designed by Eloise Leigh, and features a photograph by Jason Letkiewicz. Also included is a postcard featuring liner notes, a gear list, and a photograph by Maria Tzeka.
- Creative Technology Consortium - A Retro Vice
- Creative Technology Consortium - Addiction (Vicki's Revenge)
- Creative Technology Consortium - Babalorichàs
- Creative Technology Consortium - Beautifully Polluted Sunset
- Creative Technology Consortium - Better Living Through Circuitry
- Creative Technology Consortium - Catastrophe
- Creative Technology Consortium - Complicity In The City
- Creative Technology Consortium - Confrontation
- Creative Technology Consortium - Down The Hall - What We Make Happen
- Creative Technology Consortium - Far From Amateur
- Creative Technology Consortium - Follow Our Kode
- Creative Technology Consortium - High Altitude Meditation
- Creative Technology Consortium - Initiative
- Creative Technology Consortium - Know Your System
- Creative Technology Consortium - Looming Shadows
- Creative Technology Consortium - Nyte Sequence
- Creative Technology Consortium - On The Edge Of Confrontation
- Creative Technology Consortium - Out Where The Transit Buses Don't Run
- Creative Technology Consortium - Palm Tree Inferno
- Creative Technology Consortium - Rapidò
- Creative Technology Consortium - The Descent
- Creative Technology Consortium - The Monaco Falcon
- Creative Technology Consortium - Triangle (Cue Take)
- Creative Technology Consortium - Undercover Heist