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Stranger People

from Stranger From The Depths by Arnold Mathes

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  • Limited Cassette Reissue
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Real-time dubbed black C32 tape with sticker labels packaged in a transparent norelco case with 6-panel, double-sided insert printed on metallic card stock.

    Available from Tobira Records (Japan):
    tobirarecords.com/collections/tribe/products/arnold-mathes-stranger-from-the-depths-tape

    Review by Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly 1301:

    "Here, we have quite an interesting and surprising re-issue, the for me unknown Arnold Mathes. Today I learned that he has ten releases, mostly from 1983 to 1988 but also, curiously, a self-released CDR from 2021. Audiofile Tapes released one of his cassettes, the others were all private affairs. 'Stranger From The Depths' was a cassette from 1985 and I have no idea where it stands in the grander scheme of things. Mathes plays electronic music, a bunch of synthesizers, a rhythm machine and a voice. Listening to this music made sad. No, actually, all of this re-issue stuff made me sad. I wanted to be 22 again, stuyding history at the university, and spending endless amounts of time on making cassette covers, writing letters and exchanging weird tapes with people around the world. A far cry from the file exchange and checking Facebook; and, no, them olden days weren't better. Mathes' music is partly based on synthesizer pop and partly on the experimental side of the spectrum. Yet both, it isn't. As so many from those days, Mathes toyed with the idea of pop music, knowing very well, he didn't have the right voice for it, nor the catchy melodies. His experiments don't click with then current industrial music ideas. But I must also say, I don't care that much. I like the experimental edge to these songs as much as I enjoy the attempts at experiment. This music is, at times, over the top, naive and fresh. There is an abundance of things not to do, over use of delay and reverb for instance, but, again, that adds to the charm of the music for me. This is the 80s as I remember them best; a new name to discover. No longer every day, but thankfully there is Tribe Tapes to do the legwork of discovery for us. Third round of applause from me."

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from Stranger From The Depths, released July 19, 2021

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