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Spencer / VC is probably the single biggest influence on my listening in the last ten years. They've just opened up whole scenes, approaches and constellations of sound for me - both VC's own output, and the various mixes, old album uploads to the Root Strata blog, reissues on the Empire of Signs label... Even Spencer's twitter, where he pops up in other peoples' replies with music recommendations from his (presumably vast) collection, is a mind-expanding rabbit hole. I blurted out some sort of garbled things for all this after a gig last time VC were in London - I think maybe he thought I was insane, but I was glad to be able to thank him!
Pretty much any mix is worth listening to - most of them explore a concept that is pretty illuminating! Some favourites are:
https://www.dublab.com/archive/peak-oil-w-guest-timothy-j-fairplay-visible-cloaks-tipping-point-08-24-18/
The second half of this show is a VC mix which uses the global sound of Hosono's Omni Sight Seeing and Sakamoto's Beauty as a jumping-off point for other artists taking the same approach at the cusp of the 80s and 90s.
https://www.factmag.com/2019/11/05/visible-cloaks-fact-mix/
I think there's some sort of concept running through this one about Paul De Marinis-style speech synthesis but I'm not so sure!
https://soundcloud.com/music-for-environment/mfe002-visible-cloaks
An architecturally-inpspired mix that roams all over the place - has some moments of pure gorgeousness in there (esp the ssaliva track)
https://soundcloud.com/fakerolexxx/visible-cloaks-portland-oregon
The Ellen Zweig track on here absolutely stopped me in my tracks.
― bamboohouses, Sunday, 17 October 2021 09:01 (two years ago) link