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Release Date: 25-01-1999
Label: Hearts of Space
Catalog Number: HSRGB506-2
Barcode: 25040050624
Musical Style: World Beat
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accidental Measures in Cool | 7 | In Between Nowhere |
| 2 | Infinite Jest | 8 | Life Lounge and Lesser Evils |
| 3 | When Worlds Colide | 9 | This Station |
| 4 | Real Question | 10 | Hardboiled Wonderland |
| 5 | Fantastic Voyage | 11 | War in the Heart of Eden |
| 6 | Magheda | 12 | New India |
Description:
From the LA media meltdown of the 90s comes this futuristic album that utterly obliterates genre boundaries. Serpentine jazz/rock synths and atmospherics groove on enigmatic LA nights. Fierce African and East Indian vocals with guitar, keyboards, tablas and police choppers give way to sexy, laidback torch songs and a funky chunk of brash hip hop with mega-bass dubs and stark urban samples brings a Hassell/Laswell/Duke stew of danceable 70s fusion to a rolling boil.
Accessible without sacrificing artistic integrity, devilishly intense to hauntingly sublime, thematically focused, yet cinematic in scope and scale, Score reaches a new plateau in Haslinger’s creative evolution and hits a multi-metaphor bullseye.
Biography:
Paul Haslinger began his music studies in 1982 at the Academy of Music in Vienna, Austria. By 1985, he was playing live gigs as support act for Tina Turner and doing session work with a number of Austrian groups. Haslinger joined Tangerine Dream for their 1986 studio album Underwater Sunlight and subsequent world tour. He continued with the group on Tyger (1987) and the Grammy-nominated Canyon Dreams (1988), along with a number of soundtrack recordings, including Shy People and Miracle Mile. Following several additional soundtracks and studio albums, Haslinger left T-Dream in 1990, soon after receiving his Masters degree in Musicology at the University of Vienna.
In 1991, Haslinger relocated to Los Angeles. He began collaborations with fellow ex-TD member Peter Baumann and with the French electronic ensemble Lightwave. The group's debut album on Fathom Records, Tycho Brahe, came out in 1993, the same year Haslinger created the Assembly Room studios.
Haslinger's first solo album Future Primitive was released to critical acclaim in 1994 on Wildcat/MCA. Active in the burgeoning Los Angeles interactive multimedia scene, he was named music director for Siggraph 95. He also produced and collaborated with Lightwave on Mundus Subterraneus (Fathom, 1995).
