It’s January, it’s gloomy, the buzz of new year and Christmas celebrations have subsided and it’s all about the super-dark mornings, the freezing-ass weather and a total lack of energy with Blue Monday only a fortnight away. The last thing you need is something hectic going in your ears, right? Right! What you need my friends is a brace of contemplative mood-pieces from Group Modular a.k.a Markey Funk and Mule Driver. Say hello to new 45 Hecker b/w Sharon which apparently explores, MF and MD’s, “fascination with late 20th-century brutalist architecture…urbanistic utopia and its inevitable decay” through the medium of retro-synth ambience inspired by the sounds of library music label Bruton Music. Imagine the more usual psych-funk output of Markey’s Delights label, slow the tempo and remove the breaks and you’re ballpark. Oohh it’s like floating through an utterly deserted former East German city. Or something.
(Pre-order now/ Out 30 January on Confused Machines/ Delights)
