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MUSICA 001LP
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The Musica Maquina label kick-starts with the first ever vinyl pressing of Sequences, one of those tapes that Toni Parera recorded in his garage more than three decades ago. At the time, circumstances conspired against him, and Sequences remained unknown to almost everyone. Precarious resources, certain bygone idiosyncrasies of the music industry, the political, cultural, and social constraints of a country that was just leaving behind a dictatorship, and the hardships of a Barcelona that in those years had little resemblance to the city that enchanted the world following the 1992 Olympics constituted a context that made it very difficult for a project like Idee Du Femelle to succeed. At the same time, those adversities made Sequences a unique album. In one sense, Sequences, and by extension Idee Du Femelle, are paradigmatic products of the Spanish experimental underground of the eighties. One of the many projects born amid a small yet flourishing scene that, despite its artistic value, was unable to transcend its subterranean roots and went unrecognized by many. In another sense, the particularities of Sequences make it a complete anomaly. Too delicate to be industrial, too gloomy to be pop, too abstract for the new age crowd and too melodic for academic minimalism, the defining sound of Sequences didn't dovetail with any of the currents that dominated the landscape of Spanish electronic music at the time. In this respect, the album introduces a new, neglected player to that scene. An artist whose vision had more in common with what later would come to be known as ambient techno than with his peers from the industrial avant-garde. All of this makes of Sequences a sort of missing link. And, as such, a puzzling discovery.
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