Memory Cassette + Friend
New Jersey’s enigmatic Memory Cassette, as well as its darker ’round the eyes, clubfound wayward sister project Weird Tapes, have long been one of our favourite new artists and a forthcoming E.P release on Acephale penned in for this Summer, as well as a prospective LP on Something In Construction both have us pretty flustered and feverish with anticipation.
The fleeting glimpses we’ve been afforded so far through our almost religious following of the Weird Tapes blog have been flashes of inhuman, disquieting beauty – serenely drowning musicbox melodies and the ghostly sketched outlines of soundtracks to impossible backroad tripping, all of which bode well for when those records finally drop. ”Last One Awake” is probably as good an example of MC’s general output as any – hypnotic, ethereal and haunting as it is.
Check out prodigal London producer Friend‘s steel-drum happy, bedtime breezy re-working too as he drags the song out of the nightmarish twilight it once rolled around in and into a carnival-called sunshine Sunday morning.
Memory Cassette – Last One Awake (Friend Remix)
