Science fiction doesn't tend to be used as a reference point for new musicians.
Gone are the days when Joy Division could expect to be tagged alongside JG Ballard, or the innovators behind Detroit techno could namecheck post-apocalyptic epics.
Yet Velour Modular feel comfortable to describe their music not in sonic terms, but in those of science fiction. A collaboration between French singer Guilhem and London-based Spaniard Hektagon, the two allow these future-scape images to filter through their songwriting.
Guilhem explains: "We had common obsessions at the time – old futuristic movies such as Logan's Run, Blade Runner, 2001 Space Odyssey or The Never Ending Story. All this sci-fi period, with the debut of electronics and the sounds related to it, was the soil of our creation and you can clearly hear that retro-futurist sound with the 8bit, 'bips', old connection system noise…etc.. It was really important for us to construct a real storytelling: we were focused on doing a kind of "black box" that could testify of a lost world."
Drifting Boards Of Canada-esque tapestries which seem to shift through dreamscapes almost without motion, new EP 'Capsule' is a bewildering, atmospheric beast.
A concept vessel of sorts, 'Capsule' aims to focus on the four stages of living – an ideal influenced by numerology, mythology and the poetry of William Blake.
Check it out now.
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