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Without doubt one of Kranky's greatest album of 2008, an essential purchase for fans of John Carpenter, Harmonia, Goblin, early-Kraftwerk, early Moroder and Neu. Drawing from traditions of 20th Century instrumental synthesiser music, Jonas Reinhardt represents a love affair between analogue electronics, sweeping atmospherics, and driving motorik beats. Combined together, these elements bring the album's thirteen pieces into focus as the soundtrack for an inner-eyelid space epic that never was. Inspired in equal measure by the natural beauty of his California coastal surroundings, continental European art-rock experimentation, and the freewheeling punk aesthetic of contemporary home studio recording, Jonas Reinhardt's music transcends it's influences to bring into being a work that's wholly new while referencing a celebrated aesthetic of the past. Armed with a battery of analogue synthesisers and vintage drum machines, Jonas writes music that is at times stark and spare and at others lush and all-encompassing; all the while keeping an underlying rhythmic pulse just beneath the surface.