DIMINISHED MEN - Vision In Crime LP afrobeat Chan the Man – previously

Chan the Man – previously the guiding light for Perfect Toy's Down & Wired series - was the driving force behind this project

With dashes of John Carpenter

'Alpestres' is a fascinating and complex thematic album of a rare depth that will bring rewards to any intrepid sound adventurer who ventures to listen

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there are beats and tape-tweaks and cunning darkness to be found here

DIMINISHED MEN - Vision In Crime LP afrobeat Chan the Man – previouslyNicely priced. One copy only. Highly recommended. At times, the combination of Gamelan instrumentation and early 1960s Stratocaster melodies steers the album into the direction of a David Lynch soundtrack. Although, stylistically, comparisons to Joe Meek or Ennio Morricone would be more precise, there is definitely a sense of an earnestly pervading overbearing strangeness on the album's more haunting passages.