Red Earth
The UK duo of Stephen Martin and Richard Collins, aka The Interstellar Cement Mixers excel at improvised, analogue, deep space expeditions. Their latest album, Red Earth, contains some of their best trips yet.
There are just four tracks on the album, ranging in length from 14 to 24 minutes long, for a total of just under 80 minutes of pure interstellar and extra-terrestrial planetary exploration.
Monochrome Gravity
Monochrome Gravity is stylistically the same as Dislodged Resonance, though it's less varied, having a trademark sound characterized by multiple layers of keyboard waves and drones of varying pitches, colors, and hues. Some are dark and foreboding. Others are heavenly and angelic. Slowly developing Tangerine Dreamy ambient space tracks feature all the bands' fun bleeps and various other freaky sounds to go with it. Lots of dark, slowly developing space atmospherics with a heavy focus on sound development. Drones of every imaginable pulsating pitch, twist and turn while throbbing, squealing electronics pierce our brains. It's often a frightening world we're in traveling in, continually having to fend off attacks from every direction. One need only start with the album's 21 minute title track to experience the full breadth of this duo's sense of space and sound.
Dislodged Resonance
Remember how exciting your first listens to the early electronic space bands like Tangerine Dream, Cluster, Ash Ra Tempel, and Klaus Schulze were? No, The Interstellar Cementmixers aren't a long lost classic from 1972, but a duo project from UK musicians Stephen Martin and Richard Collins. With an arsenal of Moogs, Korgs, Tascams, and other keyboards, effects, and guitars, the Cementmixers serve up heaping portions of all the great sounds that the ambient space Krautrock pioneers created so beautifully. Multiple layers of textured ambient waves and drones weave their mystical way through a cosmic primordial stew that will entrance you into a state of cosmic bliss.
