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l.a.s.'s crime - mesm�rique - domestica - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock

1. Mary's Room
2. Macabradanza
3. Five Lies
4. Statuary E-Motion
5. Dark Orris
6. Flax Girl Room
7. The Waiting
8. The Act
9. Today's Sky
10. This Form
11. Ill Merrygoround

L.A.S.'s Crime, an italian duo fascinated by electronic music, started its activity in 80's with a long list of demotapes, partecipating to several compilations and later recording two vinyls for well known european labels.


Mesm�rique is their third album reissued for Domestica Records, created with 11 original recordings taken from their '80s 4tracks demotapes, but restored today in a professional studio: you will be scattered into a path of 11 vivid and hypnotic visions never reissued before on vinyl.

Tracks are ordered chronologically, from the first to the last years of 80s, showing the creative travel of the band towards the decade.
Listening after listening, you will gradually become more conscious of the hypnotic nature of this music, full of contrasts, filled with endless repetitions echoing into memory in mysterious ways: a concise and minimalistic style who has kept alive this music during the last 30 years, by porting it from tape to cd, and later through internet, from a fan to another, from a musical genre to another, from a decade to another. 
This music has been jealously preserved by those who knew and loved it: but the simplicity of its structures, the oblique melodies, the small length of the songs, are apparently weak reasons for this 30 years long devotion, it is somehow plausible there can be other reasons, far more complex to explain than it would be legitimate to believe. 
So no coincidence that the tape is also called magnetic stripe, and that the turntable is a magneto acustic device.