Thursday 22 February 2018

N4SH THE SLASH - DREAMS AND N1GHTMARES (1979)

The late Mr. Slash (1948-2014) divided his record into Left Side and Right Side, an apropos reminder of the dream/nightmare dialectic and the brain's conjoined hemispheres. The dream state: ingrained and engrained...wax cylinders and neural plasticity.

This stark offering of synth-drenched sonic architecture was composed as a soundtrack to Luis Buñuel's silent film Un Chien Andalou (1928). You may be a peculiar sort, one able to groove to this moody, propulsive score, but you may find yourself feeling claustrophobic and slightly techno-fascistic, if perhaps in an Ontario kind of way. Synthpop for sweating. New wave for discomfort. Space goth blues for tossing and turning...


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  1. Scraps2 June 2018 at 09:53

    When I was a college DJ, more than thirty years ago, I loved this disc. And the Pop-o-Pies, and Wet Picnic.... ah, me. It's now maybe also more that thirty years ago that I heard Nash. Thank you for letting me & Nash get reacquainted.

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    1. LabLo31 July 2018 at 14:23

      He was a unique voice in Canada during his time, and anywhere!

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