Vol.1 & Vol.2
One of Spencer Clark’s finest, trippiest is newly edited/augmented and back to spangle minds on its 10th anniversary edition with the erstwhile Skater’s Pacific City Discs - RIYL Hellraiser, Werkbund, Lászlo Hórtobágyi, Nate Young
Originally issued under the Typhonian Highlife handle in 2014, the psychedelic baroque inventions of ‘H.R. Giger’s Studiolo’ is hailed among Spencer Clark’s best work of the early years when he went solo after disbanding duo The Skaters with James Ferraro. The 70 minute double tape is now nipped and tucked to a its first 2LP pressing and represents a prime case of how Clark, amid a cloud of vaporwave/psych-synth/ambient mutators, would summon the formative imagery and sounds of late ’80s/early ‘90s horror fantasies, computer game soundtracks and 2nd class cultural ephemera within their contemporary style of psychedelia.
The sound resonates an implied sort of US take on hauntology in a similar way to Nate Young’s slurred, bezonkked regression sessions, but riddled something micelial with a clearer sense of “musicality” in Clark’s cruddy quasi baroque keyboard runs of synthetic harpsicord and woodwind appearing to wander cuboid halls of mirrors. The effect is as entrancing as it is disorienting and transportive, like we’re jacked right into a fleshy port at the back the artist’s bonce and witness to his fever dreams from the inside. It may have particularly strong effect with anyone who grew up in the ‘90s watching VHS tapes and late night oddities on terrestrial TV, but should also translate to to anyone of a trippy disposition.
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One of Spencer Clark’s finest, trippiest is newly edited/augmented and back to spangle minds on its 10th anniversary edition with the erstwhile Skater’s Pacific City Discs - RIYL Hellraiser, Werkbund, Lászlo Hórtobágyi, Nate Young
Originally issued under the Typhonian Highlife handle in 2014, the psychedelic baroque inventions of ‘H.R. Giger’s Studiolo’ is hailed among Spencer Clark’s best work of the early years when he went solo after disbanding duo The Skaters with James Ferraro. The 70 minute double tape is now nipped and tucked to a its first 2LP pressing and represents a prime case of how Clark, amid a cloud of vaporwave/psych-synth/ambient mutators, would summon the formative imagery and sounds of late ’80s/early ‘90s horror fantasies, computer game soundtracks and 2nd class cultural ephemera within their contemporary style of psychedelia.
The sound resonates an implied sort of US take on hauntology in a similar way to Nate Young’s slurred, bezonkked regression sessions, but riddled something micelial with a clearer sense of “musicality” in Clark’s cruddy quasi baroque keyboard runs of synthetic harpsicord and woodwind appearing to wander cuboid halls of mirrors. The effect is as entrancing as it is disorienting and transportive, like we’re jacked right into a fleshy port at the back the artist’s bonce and witness to his fever dreams from the inside. It may have particularly strong effect with anyone who grew up in the ‘90s watching VHS tapes and late night oddities on terrestrial TV, but should also translate to to anyone of a trippy disposition.