Acid tripping with: Balthasar Freitag – Ganymed on Mushrooms #Acid #Techno

It might be nearly Christmas but that doesn’t mean you don’t deserve a bit of pre-blowout acid techno from Switzerland’s Balthasar Freitag.

Balthasar Freitag (aka Andreas Freitag) is based in Zurich, Switzerland. His biog says “BALTHASAR FREITAG left the small mountain valley where he grew up to redefine himself in the music scene of Zurich. Soon, Zurich became his base where he developed his music and started his band „Freiraum“, that brought him onto the stages of small clubs and bars within the city.”

Ganymed on Mushrooms is his new track. I should note fwiw that Ganymede is one of Jupiter’s moons but also in mythology was the most beautiful of mortals, abducted by the gods, to serve as Zeus’s cup-bearer in Olympus. This is more space techno than drinking song.

It’s got a sound that casts me back 30 years. This is very much like a blend of sounds from early Orbital. Think the Brown album. It’s acid but bent into leftfield shapes. There’s a sense of sweeping drama here. The beats are firm but don’t stop the acid coming to the fore. Almost rave sirens sweep across the vista.

It’s a suitably chunky 7 minutes, allowing plenty of time to the trip to Jupiter.

~ by acidted on December 23, 2021.