Thursday melody with: Frank & Friedrich, Klangplanet, and L’Orbit #DeepHppuse #MelodicTechno #NewMusic
A triple bill of warming melodies from Frank & Friedrich, Klangplanet and L’Orbit.
Berlin-based Frank & Friedrich are here to blend their DJ and jazz backgrounds into the timeless warmth of Clocks. This starts in a Berlin cool kind of way with blue beats gradually accompanied by symphonic synths and a lightness that has a bit of jazz about it. The big modulated synths with their unashamedly epic ways rather remind me of Spooky’s Stereo from the mid-90s. And that’s a personal favourite, so that’s some recommendation.
A last track of the year from returning Munich-based Klangplanet (Frieder Mollat). He notes that his name translates as Sound Planet and that he’s always been a fan of space missions, hence this track Space. It’s a lovely deep house tune that starts a bit dubby before diving headlong into some choppy funk guitar and lashings of strings. Less the coldness and vastness of space, rather the space we as people occupy within it. This is all about the humanity and vitality of life.
The UK’s been a leaden lump recently. Days of grey and white skies. Rain stopping and starting. Everything sodden and muddy. Water dripping down the back of my neck. Yesterday it felt like every time I had to go from one building to another it started to rain, only to stop when I was inside. So, I’m not desperately attracted to L’Orbit’s suggestion that his track Rainstronaut was conceived in and is best listened to in the rain. But I can’t deny that the Swiss producer has delivered a really lovely track. It’s some mid-tempo deep house beats and wood blocks attached to the most delightful synth piano line. A real earworm of a melody that twists this track round its little finger. All cheery and playful. And just a little bit tech house.
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