Synthesize

Autumn

Synthesize

 

2011

Micrart Group

Discogs

  • 1.
    I Say You Hello
  • 2.
    The Third Autumn
  • 3.
    Night In June
  • 4.
    Viginaigre
  • 5.
    Synthesize
  • 6.
    Laughter Of A Madman
  • 7.
    Not Afraid To Die
  • 8.
    Aparell I Ma
  • 9.
    Behind You
  • MW027

The twenty-seventh re­lease on Minim­al Wave is Autumn‘s ‘Syn­thes­ize’ LP, selec­tions from the bands best materi­al. Autumn was the legen­da­ry pro­ject of Peter Bonne and Geert Co­ppens, two Be­lgian teenag­ers who star­ted ex­periment­ing with the poten­ti­als of an­alog syn­thesiz­ers dur­ing the late 70s and for­med a band togeth­er soon after in 1980, quick­ly be­com­ing one of the most truly visiona­ry groups to em­er­ge from the synth scene in Europe. The album is tit­led after their Syn­thes­ize single which was re­cor­ded along with its b-side ‘The Third Autumn’ in 1981 in a pro­fes­sion­al 24 track studio in only 7 hours. Both songs be­came modest summ­er hits in Be­lgian dance clubs in 1982, and the re­lease been high­ly sought after ever since. This album fea­tures ‘Syn­thes­ize’ and ‘The Third Autumn’, along with other cas­sette only favorites like ‘I Say You Hello’, ‘Not Af­raid To Die’, and ‘Night In June’ (featured on An­gular’s Cold Wave & Minim­al Electronics com­pila­tion in 2010). Con­sider­ing how young Autumn were when they re­cor­ded these songs, the pro­duc­tion is very im­pres­sive. These multi-layered syn­thpop gems are cat­chy, dan­ce­able and de­finite­ly ahead of their time. ‘I Say You Hello’ has been de­scribed as an “amaz­ing” piece of synth music with “in­sane­ly cat­chy voc­als, an in­credib­le bass line and some mind-melting an­alog pat­terns”.

Autumn was pre­vious­ly featured on V/A The Lost Tapes LP with their ‘Time Is On Our Side’, a mag­ical piece of dark synth wave music. Due to heavy in­terest in the band and our gener­al love for all Mic­rart Group pro­jects, we de­cided a full LP needed to be re­leased. Thus we pre­sent it to you: a hand-numbered, li­mited edi­tion pre­ss­ing on 180 gram clear green vinyl housed in a heavy prin­ted gloss jac­ket.

Back in stock! Re­cords will ship in early Feb­rua­ry.

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Reviews

    The Minim­al Wave im­print con­tinues its in­ves­tiga­tion of the Be­lgian synth auteur Peter Bonne’s early-‘80s out­put with this com­pila­tion of tracks from Autumn, the band he star­ted with Geert Co­ppens be­fore form­ing Li­near Move­ment, Twilight Ritu­al and A Split-Second. Com­pil­ing Autumn’s sole single from 1981 and songs from cas­sette com­pila­tions re­leased on Bonne and Co­ppens’ label Mic­rart Group, Syn­thes­ize is a fan­tastic col­lec­tion of icy minim­al synth, synth pop, and spaced-out, dark-as-hell electronic pseudo disco. Those who have been fol­low­ing the minim­al synth re­is­sue craze over the last sever­al years will li­ke­ly be familiar with “Syn­thes­ize” from Autumn’s first single; howev­er, the rare cas­sette tracks rea­l­ly make this LP shine. Fall­ing some­where bet­ween the straight-up synth pop of Li­near Move­ment and the dark, in­dustri­al sound of Twilight Ritu­al (while man­ag­ing to in­cor­porate ele­ments of both), Autumn’s songs are dynamic and whol­ly en­gag­ing, featur­ing some ex­pert an­alog synth work, great de­ad­pan vocal de­live­ry, and a spacey pro­duc­tion aesthetic that feels al­most re­minis­cent of cer­tain Sky Re­cords re­leases. From the boun­cy electronic pop of “Night in June” (a track cut from the same cloth as De­pec­he Mode’s Speak & Spell), the dancefloor-ready “Laught­er of a Mad­man,” to the stark, clas­sic Be­lgian minim­al synth sound on “I Say You Hello” and “Be­hind You,” Syn­thes­ize is an­oth­er ex­cel­lent re­lease from Minim­al Wave. [CPa]

    - http://www.ot­hermusic.com/2011ap­ril07up­date.html - April 7, 2011

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