A Reminiscent Drive
A Reminiscent Drive
Genres: downtempo, chillout, ambient, electronic, lounge
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About A Reminiscent Drive
Now is the time for the survivors. The new century has digested easy techno music and computerized control. Now, what we need is a total cultural understanding of all things musical, like having a well developed sense of mental gymnastics. And that's exactly what Jay Alansky has. He always has, since the pre-punk and decadent folk music of the Beautiful Losers and since the "Price of Love", his double album obsessed with Spector, Rundgren and the Beach Boys. Afterwards, with the "A Reminiscent Drive" project, he gave us Balearic House along with reinvented electronic, brought the British techno scene to its knees with "Mercy Street" and "Ambrosia" became a classic of lounge and of its compilations. All this without sampling and without computers, by appropriating Burt Bacharach, the Residents or R. Gottehrer. Jay Alansky invented downtempo before its time. In the meantime he wrote for Julien Clerc, Lio and Jil Caplan and offered the Innocents their first big hit. Jay Alansky?s inspiration all along came from delving into that giant jukebox that serves as his brain. We can not help but evoke, when listening to a piece like "Un maximum de lumière", all that prophetic German electronic rock in the style of Can, Neu or Amon Duul2. When we hear the reverb-inundated voice some may think there is homage to John Cale or Brian Eno. ? Or those from the nineties? they'll speak of chill-out or dark ambient. BUT The majority will let themselves be guided by the emotions in this appealing work happily unconscious of the obsessions and references. For the music together with the visuals also created by our hero belongs to each one of us in our own personal way. In any case, it will be the one for our new century. Who also has hollow eyes...
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A Reminiscent Drive — Top 26 songs
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Reminiscent Drive | Ambrosia (Bertrand Burgalat Cover) (2001) | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Two Sides To Every Story (Fresh & Low's City Blues Mix) | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Sometimes I Do What I'm Told! | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | True Love... | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | What's Your Style | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Ambrosia | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Ambrosia (Chris Coco Remix) | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Life is beautiful | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Serenade (To The Sound Of Peace!) | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Tears Along The Way | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Ambrosia (Original Mix) | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Ambrosia (Album Version) | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Life Is Beautiful (New Version) | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Life Is Beautiful | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Smokey Mountains | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | (On My Way To) Providence | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Ambrosia | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Serenade (To the Sound of Peace!) | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | One Hundred Eleven Reasons (To | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Two Sides To Every Story | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Unconditional Love | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | One Hundred Eleven Reasons (To Be Happy!) | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Serenade (To The Sound Of Peace) | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Footprints | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | N.Y.C Dharma | ||
| A Reminiscent Drive | Relief |