Nightwalker - Harper/Derbyshire/Hodgson
All of the tracks on Electrosonic are credited to Harper/Russe [Derbyshire]/St. George [Hodgson], so it’s difficult to know who composed which pieces, or which might be collaborations.
What to make of this ongoing contemporary interest in vintage library music, BBC Radiophonic Workshop sonic doodles, and all manner of hauntological audio detritus? Discovering obscure music is exciting, but what can beat the thrill of discovering music that wasn’t even meant for popular consumption? Is virtual crate digging on music blogs a suitable replacement for the real thing? Has virtual crate digging become the real thing? How do you know you have genuine vintage music, and not some contemporary artists using a pseudonym and a fictional back story? Is it more emotionally satisfying piecing together your own narrative from historical fragments than accepting one handed to you? How is it possible to grow a cult from a single photo of a woman wearing a hair band, working at a tape machine?
