Showing posts with label Cybe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cybe. Show all posts

Saturday, 13 June 2015

Cybe ‎– "Cybonesië - Tropische Klankbeelden" (Self Released cassette cass. 003) 1985



You know what? I forgot to post the third and final Cybe cassette from one of the more dodgier periods of Rock'n'pop's golden era , 1985. One to rival 1974 for clueless awfulness,but still better than any year from 1989 to 2015.
You could be forgiven in thinking that Cybe had lost his mojo with his third cassette release. Its more or less an electronic version of Martin Denny's Exotica.  He's obviously been saving up his Gilders to buy one of those new fangled digital synths,and a sampler,to make this ethnically coloured trip into the space-age batchelor pad of the mid-eighties.
It falls into the trap of synths trying to be real instruments syndrome, or syn-drum(?); which is never recommended.
Still has a few hooky melodies floating around the Gamelan simulations and factory standard sitar samples(was this an Ensoniq Mirage by any chance?),but the drum machine seems to still be analogue;so it ain't all bad.
On the evidence of this, Cybe didn't do anymore tapes because he fucked off to Bali to hang with the natives?!


Tracklist:

A1De Oriënt-Swing
A2Chinatown
A3Krung Thep
A4Anklung
A5Yunnan
A6Elektro Gamelan
A7Eilanden
A8Little Arabië
A9Klokkenmars
B1Kupu Kupu, Kupu Kupu (Vlinders)
B2Tempel-Bellen
B3India

DOWNLOAD this klankbleelden exotica electronica HERE!

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Cybe ‎– "Cybernetika" (Syncop) 1982



I once had a car with the registration H355 KUT, which my Dutch neighbours found hilarious! This,I was informed, was because KUT is a naughty Dutch reference to a ladies 'front bottom'. Well, looking at this cassette label, I am amused to see that Dutch for side 1 is Kant 1; and as we all know, Kant is very rude cockney for......a ladies 'Front Bottom'. Oh, the childish fun one can have with other nations' languages?
Brits don't know much about the inhabitants of Holland. We think that they all smoke copious amounts of Dope,live in caravans,have kinky sex parties, and go shopping for chocolate sprinkles wearing gimp masks, crotchless PVC shorts and clogs. The tale of Peter and the Dyke never fails to send any British UKIP voter into a giggling fit.
This admirable ignorance also stretches to Dutch music, 2Unlimited, Golden Earring and Focus are probably the only acts from the Netherlands that yer average Brit could name. Admittedly, if these three groups were hiding  in Anne Franks attic,I'd be first in the queue to inform the Music Gestapo of their location and their subsequent deportation to the East.
This fate should not befall Cybe, whose second cassette is IN the same format  as their first,and is just as good.Kant 1  is full of wonderful handcrafted minimal analogue electronic majesty, and Kant 2 has more of those lush ambient sound tapestries(or Muzak Paintings).
Now more 'fun' with exotic words:
Don't say "I like a nice beat" to a French person in a Discothéque,because it sounds like "Bite!"(pronounced Beet), and that is the equivalent to saying "I like a nice Cock".Could get you into an awkward situation could that.

Don't just sit there DAHNLOAD IT YOU FACKIN' KANT........NAAAAAAAAH!!!!

Sunday, 3 May 2015

Cybe ‎– "Positive Movement Muzak / New Age Synthesis" (Sonic Report ‎– SR 2001) 1981



Dutch Minimal Synth rarity by Cybe. Jam packed with fast attack electronic stabs, squelches and beeps, with lush fields of electronic wheat swaying in the voltage controlled wind.
Split into two different sides, side A, "Positive Movement Muzak", is the more ambient,cinematic half;which allows the ARP Odessey to weave its haunting spell like a choir of  white noise witches from the north.
Side B, "New Age Synthesis" is the superior minimal synth side, with analogue sounds that slap you in the face with their 'Phat' crispness, and slice through ones inner ear with the sharpness of a Stanley knife..
Such fresh electronic beauty is  a joy to behold, and the fact it hasn't been deflowered by any vocals make this even purer to these ears.

DOWNLOAD from cybe-r space HERE!