Hydroplane – Hydroplane [LP] DIY / Lo-Fi / Pop and a few were baffled

and a few were baffled enough to return the album to the store

the La Trobe Serge is one of three instruments designed by Tcherepnin to make its way to Australia during this period

Hal Rammel

It's first side contained a two-part realization of Takayanagi's "Gradually Projection" modality -- a searching interplay between instruments -- slowly emerging from a sparse open field and building with the tension of a looming thunder storm

It's a stunningly weird effect

Hydroplane – Hydroplane [LP] DIY / Lo-Fi / Pop and a few were baffled"Hydroplane reinstate their formidable 1997 debut of sublime guitar atmospherics, fragile lyricism and droning incidentals with an overdue vinyl and digital reissue. An offshoot of the now fted The Cats Miaow, the trio formed after their drummer decamped to London, charting new territory with tape loops, manipulated samples and a borrowed Jupiter 4 in the wake of Endtroducing. Adopting a handle that Dean Wareham once considered calling Luna,