Mike Clarke - Play Time

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Frigio Records is going back in time for its latest release, some 38 years into the past. Back then a young Newcastle man was experimenting with early electronic instruments and synths. Mick Clarke is his name and nearly forty years later he is still at it. Two tracks have been borrowed from Clarke's seminal Games LP, each given a bit of modern boot polish from MinimalRome's Heinrich Dressel and Frigio father Juanpablo. "Walls of the Night" is a blissed out work of ambient prog rock abstraction. Think rumbling horror score and soaring guitar strings. Heinrich Dressel offers a giallo dipped remix. The building bars of the original are maintained, beats added for ballast and darkened organ keys for a remake etched with murderous intent. The flip is introduced by the dreamy "Time Is Now." Slender synthlines intertwine with gentle strings in a cerebral work. Juanpablo tweaks the 1979 material. Syrupy acid lines swim in meandering currents, a thick beat keeping time in murky waters of modulations and undulations.

Frigio released Play Time on Thu Jul 13 2017. The 4 track Techno release features Mike Clarke.

Frigio has released vinyl by Twilight Ritual, Boris Divider, I Land Beat, Pera Yang, Honored Matres, Vagon Brei, Ideograma, Juanpablo, Ard2, Sneaker, Click Click, Ralph Lundsten, Genevieve Pasquier, Hesperius Draco, and Mike Clarke.