Day 3

It seems that Jan Jelinek has put out a new album under the name Ursula Bogner on his new label and invented quite a backstory. Given the lack of true obscurity in the age of the internet, I suppose PR like this fills a necessary niche in the musical landscape.

What excites me about this stuff, though, is not the pseudo-history associated with it, but the atmospheres it conjures in your head. Early synthesizer and computer music sounds like it's coming from some sort of fantastic place that may never exist. If I had some sort of public place to design--a bar, a restaurant, a coffeeshop, maybe even a club--this is exactly the direction I'd go in. Modernist furnishings and artwork, oscilloscopes and other odd and kind of outdated-looking electronic equipment, and most definitely background music like this.

Maybe the OHM compilation, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Farben records and drone music by Jelinek and others. Most certainly Keith Fullerton Whitman, particularly Multiples. Ghost Box records and library music.

The obvious name for such a place would be "Back To The Future," but just as obviously that would be an impossible name to use.