Dec 30, 2020

Best electronic albums of 2020: eight

8 the flashbulb fat roland electronic albums of 2020
8 – The Flashbulb ‎– Our Simulacra (Alphabasic)

The Flashbulb, or Flash to his friends, is a jazz composer, advert soundtracker, film scorer, martial arts practitioner, and an electronic music programmer who runs a neat line in squirrelly IDM. 

Catch him at a party and he'll probably bang on about all these things. Jeez, Mr Bulb, give it a BREAK.

I'm guilty of neglecting The Flashbulb's work for a long time. He last got a mention on this website in 2006. ‎So the cinematic, perfectly programmed and endlessly creative Our Simulacra came as something of a revelation. 

The sheer range of ideas wins the day. The choral and darkly comic Stabmyself is worth the album price alone. The title track sounds like recent Daft Punk caught in a malfunctioning Faraday cage. And he's not afraid of a bit of cheese either, as the liquid piano in Ez God Library shows. Very well played cheese.

Hi, I'm Flash. I fly helicopters, I can bench press 12 tonnes and I once liberated Milton Keynes. Yeah but can you write an end-of-year blog series under pressure while eating seven full Viennettas? Pfffrt.

 

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