Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012
Manual Controller
On the debut of
Milwaukeean Paul Schwarzkopf's one-man band, Manual Controller, vintage
electronic instruments fashion a retro-futuristic sound. Within Schwarzkopf’s
peppy dystopia, he conjures a keyboard-driven side of Krautrock, electro-punk
renegades such as The Screamers and The Normal and even the nexus of where
synth-heavy break-dance hip-hop meets the genesis of Latin freestyle. It's
sometimes danceable and all pretty cacophonous in its gauzy scuzz. Schwarzkopf
whips up some delightfully approachable, if intermittently dark, weirdness
that envisions tomorrow as if from a long gone yesterday.



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