The Kitchen

Posted on | August 12, 2008 |

This Saturday is the return of Drew and Mr. Bristle’s Kitchen, a monthly celebration of the soulful, deep side of house music. The Kitchen always draws a good diverse crowd of groovers to the Mink’s Backroom. For this installment, I’ll be setting up my sound system on the patio and playing an extended set of disco, italo and electro, both new and old.

The party kicks off around 10pm and we’ll be rocking until the standard, state-approved TABC closing time.

Speaking of new disco, do not miss Lindstrom’s soon-to-be-released long player, Where You Go, I Go Too. It is one epic piece of work and currently sits very high on my best-of-2008 list. The album is constructed of three tracks ranging from ten to twenty-eight minutes, but it clearly sounds as though it was conceived as one long piece. The influences that inform this work could be a “who’s who” list of electronic music pioneers: Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Klaus Shulze, Cluster, Gottsching’s E2-E4, Jan Hammer. At the same time, Lindstrom has created something that is thoroughly contemporary, and the entire album plays out like the soundtrack to some bad-ass, neon-soaked sci-fi flick that I really want to see.

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