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Okay, this one's just plain weird.
When I first saw this album, I jumped to an immediate conclusion.
S.H.A.D.O stands of course for Supreme Headquarters,
Alien Defence Organisation, which is the fictional government
body responsible for preventing alien abductions on Gerry Anderson's
much loved series UFO. And the titles of the tracks on
S.H.A.D.O. make it clear that its creators were thinking the
same thing:
Intruder
Detector,
Secret
Location,
Space
Interceptors,
Skydiver
and
Maintaining
Scan for UFO's. But this isn't incidental music from the
series, although it might have been; it's all atmospheric stuff, what
electronic musician
Namlook
refers to as "ambient" music. (The quotes are Namlook's, as is the
attitude on display on his label's
website.)
As for the "music" (hey, if he can use quotes, why can't I?), it's
hard to evaluate in 30 second snippets. But give it a try. It's
certainly more interesting, and far more subtle, than
Barry
Gray's version of S.H.A.D.O, itself sadly missing from
the iTMS.
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