Straight from Wax Trax!, this award winning documentary traces the timeline from humble beginnings of the Denver record store through the Chicago storefront that became the center of underground electronic music with its label known as Wax Trax! Records.
The third of their early classic full-length albums "Love's Secret Domain", seemingly casting aside the gloom and funeral beauty of it's predecessors in favor of a painstakingly multi-layered hallucinogenic electronic beast.
Musick To Play In The Dark² spans a full witching hour of bad acid sound design, synthesizer voyaging, opiated balladry, Luciferian glitch, and subliminal hymnals, alternately ominous, oracular, and absurd.
The CD EDITION includes the remastered 13 tracks and reproduces the original Wax Trax! booklet utilizing new photographs of the Steven Stapleton painting.
His first real "studio" album with an actual band, Will Toledo moves from bedroom pop to something approaching classic rock grandeur and huge narrative ambitions, with nods to the Cars, Pavement, Jonathan Richman, Wire, and William Onyeabor.
Where Robed warped sounds like shoegaze and ambient music into the Shabazz Palaces multiverse, Exotic cross-pollinates these elements with twisted electro and funk vibes.
The 2nd half of his musical interpretation of William Blake's poetry. The first album, Songs of Innocence, leans towards hope & ambition, this album explores darker themes and employs a more orchestral and less rock-oriented approach.