From Cambridge comes the mysterious CDR from Phalangius with a bag of synth tunes made solely on the Roland Juno 6. I sense that this is a fake identity though, as did clone.nl, which think that he’s simply Legowelt. Anyhoo, in the vein of Ghost Box Records & Belbury Poly, Sven Libaek, Mort Garson and all those library records from the past, this is a haunting ambient tale with dark epic pads, arpeggiated synths and mystique melodies.

It’s hard not to fall in love with Phalangius who references Infocom text adventures (Zork anyone?), murder mysteries, toy planes, mathematical theorems, ZX Spectrums, of retrofutures gone wrong and past lifes stuck in limbo. I mean you can go back and play Infocom text adventures all the way, but you can never feel how you felt while you were playing them the first time. Or think about the time when you logged into your first BBS/irc chatroom and felt the dissonance that these were indeed real people without any physical presence. It’s ultra normal to be online today and you don’t even see a 5 year old (nor a 75 year old) being amazed by talking to people without any physical contact. Anyways this is one topic I’m easily fascinated with and I can go for hours, it’s like this place you see in your dreams that you can never reach physically or your personal history that you can never go back directly and the only key to those times seems to be music. Out on Strange Life Records which is an ambient & electro haven for obscure gems like these.

Phalangius - The Cambridge Library Murders
Phalangius - Theme from Andrew Wiles
Phalangius - Snowman Theorem
Phalangius - Percival Pembroke C1
Franz Falckenhaus - No one is so accursed by fate