Accident in Heaven
Konrad Kraft
Accident in Heaven
Boomkat Product Review:
Exploratory late ‘80s synth outlier Konrad Kraft is subject of a 2nd reissue with Stefan Schneider’s TAL, following timely reappraisal of his debut ‘Arctica’, also issued in 1987
Like the excellent ‘Arctica’ reissue of 2018, Kraft’s follow-up ‘Accident In Heaven’ explores a slow burning slant on the same space in between minimal Euro synth music and the edges of proto-techno/new beat/electro. However it sounds like Kraft thawed out some on his 2nd album, revealing more melodic colour, worming funk and uncanny texture to his work that expresses a more sensuous, psychedelic adjunct to his debut, and lands somewhere twixt earlier ‘80s electro oddities from Haruomi Hosono, contemporaneous Werkbunds, and early ‘90s freaks by Maat or NYZ in the process.
Originally deployed on Kraft’s DIY label, SDV Tonträger (Stimme Des Volkes / Voice of the Nation) out of his native Düsseldorf, the eight tracks lay down a clear precedent for the kind of groggy beatdown moods & grooves plied by the holy trio of Detlef Weinrich/Lena Willikens/Vladimir Ivkovic at Salon Des Amateurs, or the puckered minimalism of To Rococo Rot, in the following decades. They all work to a lowkey infectious hustle, oozing a rudely squashed sort of ‘pooter fonk with the titular opener that sloshes into the jiggy bleeps of ‘Mapec A/3’ and the pendulous wooze of ‘Yellow Tentacle’, leading up to striking highlights on the slo-mo motherland of ‘Sleeping Mount’ and puckered gibberish of ‘Small talk’, which shares a properly freak playfulness with album vignettes such as the E.M.A.K.-alike ‘Rhythm & Instinct’ and what could almost be Werkbund intercepting a numbers station in ‘OM’.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Exploratory late ‘80s synth outlier Konrad Kraft is subject of a 2nd reissue with Stefan Schneider’s TAL, following timely reappraisal of his debut ‘Arctica’, also issued in 1987
Like the excellent ‘Arctica’ reissue of 2018, Kraft’s follow-up ‘Accident In Heaven’ explores a slow burning slant on the same space in between minimal Euro synth music and the edges of proto-techno/new beat/electro. However it sounds like Kraft thawed out some on his 2nd album, revealing more melodic colour, worming funk and uncanny texture to his work that expresses a more sensuous, psychedelic adjunct to his debut, and lands somewhere twixt earlier ‘80s electro oddities from Haruomi Hosono, contemporaneous Werkbunds, and early ‘90s freaks by Maat or NYZ in the process.
Originally deployed on Kraft’s DIY label, SDV Tonträger (Stimme Des Volkes / Voice of the Nation) out of his native Düsseldorf, the eight tracks lay down a clear precedent for the kind of groggy beatdown moods & grooves plied by the holy trio of Detlef Weinrich/Lena Willikens/Vladimir Ivkovic at Salon Des Amateurs, or the puckered minimalism of To Rococo Rot, in the following decades. They all work to a lowkey infectious hustle, oozing a rudely squashed sort of ‘pooter fonk with the titular opener that sloshes into the jiggy bleeps of ‘Mapec A/3’ and the pendulous wooze of ‘Yellow Tentacle’, leading up to striking highlights on the slo-mo motherland of ‘Sleeping Mount’ and puckered gibberish of ‘Small talk’, which shares a properly freak playfulness with album vignettes such as the E.M.A.K.-alike ‘Rhythm & Instinct’ and what could almost be Werkbund intercepting a numbers station in ‘OM’.
Boomkat Product Review:
Exploratory late ‘80s synth outlier Konrad Kraft is subject of a 2nd reissue with Stefan Schneider’s TAL, following timely reappraisal of his debut ‘Arctica’, also issued in 1987
Like the excellent ‘Arctica’ reissue of 2018, Kraft’s follow-up ‘Accident In Heaven’ explores a slow burning slant on the same space in between minimal Euro synth music and the edges of proto-techno/new beat/electro. However it sounds like Kraft thawed out some on his 2nd album, revealing more melodic colour, worming funk and uncanny texture to his work that expresses a more sensuous, psychedelic adjunct to his debut, and lands somewhere twixt earlier ‘80s electro oddities from Haruomi Hosono, contemporaneous Werkbunds, and early ‘90s freaks by Maat or NYZ in the process.
Originally deployed on Kraft’s DIY label, SDV Tonträger (Stimme Des Volkes / Voice of the Nation) out of his native Düsseldorf, the eight tracks lay down a clear precedent for the kind of groggy beatdown moods & grooves plied by the holy trio of Detlef Weinrich/Lena Willikens/Vladimir Ivkovic at Salon Des Amateurs, or the puckered minimalism of To Rococo Rot, in the following decades. They all work to a lowkey infectious hustle, oozing a rudely squashed sort of ‘pooter fonk with the titular opener that sloshes into the jiggy bleeps of ‘Mapec A/3’ and the pendulous wooze of ‘Yellow Tentacle’, leading up to striking highlights on the slo-mo motherland of ‘Sleeping Mount’ and puckered gibberish of ‘Small talk’, which shares a properly freak playfulness with album vignettes such as the E.M.A.K.-alike ‘Rhythm & Instinct’ and what could almost be Werkbund intercepting a numbers station in ‘OM’.
Boomkat Product Review:
Exploratory late ‘80s synth outlier Konrad Kraft is subject of a 2nd reissue with Stefan Schneider’s TAL, following timely reappraisal of his debut ‘Arctica’, also issued in 1987
Like the excellent ‘Arctica’ reissue of 2018, Kraft’s follow-up ‘Accident In Heaven’ explores a slow burning slant on the same space in between minimal Euro synth music and the edges of proto-techno/new beat/electro. However it sounds like Kraft thawed out some on his 2nd album, revealing more melodic colour, worming funk and uncanny texture to his work that expresses a more sensuous, psychedelic adjunct to his debut, and lands somewhere twixt earlier ‘80s electro oddities from Haruomi Hosono, contemporaneous Werkbunds, and early ‘90s freaks by Maat or NYZ in the process.
Originally deployed on Kraft’s DIY label, SDV Tonträger (Stimme Des Volkes / Voice of the Nation) out of his native Düsseldorf, the eight tracks lay down a clear precedent for the kind of groggy beatdown moods & grooves plied by the holy trio of Detlef Weinrich/Lena Willikens/Vladimir Ivkovic at Salon Des Amateurs, or the puckered minimalism of To Rococo Rot, in the following decades. They all work to a lowkey infectious hustle, oozing a rudely squashed sort of ‘pooter fonk with the titular opener that sloshes into the jiggy bleeps of ‘Mapec A/3’ and the pendulous wooze of ‘Yellow Tentacle’, leading up to striking highlights on the slo-mo motherland of ‘Sleeping Mount’ and puckered gibberish of ‘Small talk’, which shares a properly freak playfulness with album vignettes such as the E.M.A.K.-alike ‘Rhythm & Instinct’ and what could almost be Werkbund intercepting a numbers station in ‘OM’.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Exploratory late ‘80s synth outlier Konrad Kraft is subject of a 2nd reissue with Stefan Schneider’s TAL, following timely reappraisal of his debut ‘Arctica’, also issued in 1987
Like the excellent ‘Arctica’ reissue of 2018, Kraft’s follow-up ‘Accident In Heaven’ explores a slow burning slant on the same space in between minimal Euro synth music and the edges of proto-techno/new beat/electro. However it sounds like Kraft thawed out some on his 2nd album, revealing more melodic colour, worming funk and uncanny texture to his work that expresses a more sensuous, psychedelic adjunct to his debut, and lands somewhere twixt earlier ‘80s electro oddities from Haruomi Hosono, contemporaneous Werkbunds, and early ‘90s freaks by Maat or NYZ in the process.
Originally deployed on Kraft’s DIY label, SDV Tonträger (Stimme Des Volkes / Voice of the Nation) out of his native Düsseldorf, the eight tracks lay down a clear precedent for the kind of groggy beatdown moods & grooves plied by the holy trio of Detlef Weinrich/Lena Willikens/Vladimir Ivkovic at Salon Des Amateurs, or the puckered minimalism of To Rococo Rot, in the following decades. They all work to a lowkey infectious hustle, oozing a rudely squashed sort of ‘pooter fonk with the titular opener that sloshes into the jiggy bleeps of ‘Mapec A/3’ and the pendulous wooze of ‘Yellow Tentacle’, leading up to striking highlights on the slo-mo motherland of ‘Sleeping Mount’ and puckered gibberish of ‘Small talk’, which shares a properly freak playfulness with album vignettes such as the E.M.A.K.-alike ‘Rhythm & Instinct’ and what could almost be Werkbund intercepting a numbers station in ‘OM’.
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