The Diaphonoids - Astral Weekends
From the netherland of the kosmos, here come The Diaphanoids. With a bizarre and mind-boggling musical background (junk rock, alternative library music for tv, songwriting for Luciano Pavarotti, Blackbox and many techno-house releases during the nineties, orchestral composers, arrangers, producers), they will deliver their own unique blend of lunar funkadelia, spaced-out disco, astro rock, galactic soul, confuzed boogie, congotronics, krautgrooves, seventies' soundtracks, with titles like excerpts from trashy XYZ series psi/sci-fi movies.
Their debut album Astral Weekends is released on Chicken Lips' Stevie Kotey's label Bear Entertainment. Up close you can smell real good: analog bubblesounds, tone floaters, motorik-mekanik grooves, uncontrolled floods of de-tuned vintage synthesizers (moog modular-yamaha cs 80-arp 2600-arp sequencer-roland synths-arp omni 2-eminent-ems aks-oberheim-mellotron-jx 3p-jx 8p-juno, vcs 3 synthesizer, prepared piano, modified revox a77 tape recorder), banshee-like Frippertronics guitars, phosphorent drums, glaxo bass and spectral she-muses.
The Diaphanoids (visible division) are: Andrea Bellentani and Simon Maccari. No aliens nor humans have been harmed during these recordings.
"Great music indeed." - Laurent Garnier
"This sounds awesome. Thank you!!" - Danny Howells
"More cosmic than space itself and all the better for it. Very exciting new act." - Ben Murphy [DJ Magazine]
"Great!" - Matthew Walsh
"The stuff is sounding fantastic. I am really enjoying it." - Padded Cell
"Great stuff. Proper psychedelic disco vibes..." - Blackbelt Anderson
"That's exactly what we like to play. Psych synths and arps. Great work!" - Love Supreme
"Dope tracks!" - Drrtyhaze
"Nice stuff overall." - Greg Wilson
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