tales from an ordinary world

1999-07-14

Whilst passing time before my haircut appointment, I popped into a second-hand music shop and found, for all of $8, an old Mark Shreeve CD I remember seeing 9 years ago for $50. Man, was I happy :P

Mark Shreeve is...well...the embodiment of 80's electronic music. Plastic sounds. Synthetic everything - I spotted a real guitar on one track, the rest of it was all synthetic guitars, saxes, brass, and so on. It's pure nostalgia, and the only reason I ever heard his stuff in the first place was thanks to a wonderful little show on 3PBS-FM called the Electronic Influence that I've got about 30 cassettes of recorded stuff from. It finished up many years ago, and introduced me to all sorts of music, from the prog-rock heroes like Yes, through electronic wizards like Tangerine Dream to industrial bands like Skinny Puppy. There was even a fair bit of local stuff played from time to time - one of the presenters was one Darrin Verhagen, who still puts out interersting music these days.