{"id":1227,"date":"2009-05-07T22:55:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T02:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2018-08-09T15:35:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:35:35","slug":"pluxus-solid-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"Pluxus: Solid&nbsp;State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This Swedish elec\u00adtron\u00adic group is yet anoth\u00ader exam\u00adple of musi\u00adcians delight\u00ading in \u201cretro\u201d elec\u00adtron\u00adic sounds gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded by old equip\u00adment. The beeps, blips, and spacey sounds that embar\u00adrassed the pre\u00advi\u00adous gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of elec\u00adtron\u00adi\u00adcists now seem cool again, espe\u00adcial\u00adly if they can be mixed with con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary sam\u00adples.&nbsp;Get\u00adting it to work \u2014 to make music that appeals to the ear, can be tricky.&nbsp;I would say that this album, released in 2006 and re-released in 2008, does so about half the time, notably with the skit\u00adter beat 2 (\u201cPerm\u201d), the strange\u00adly folky 3(\u201cBootstrap\u2019) and 4 (\u201cKino\u00adton\u201d) with the only vocals, which make a nice sequence, but less so with the remain\u00ading tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Swedish elec\u00adtron\u00adic group is yet anoth\u00ader exam\u00adple of musi\u00adcians delight\u00ading in \u201cretro\u201d elec\u00adtron\u00adic sounds gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded by old equip\u00adment. The beeps, blips, and spacey sounds that embar\u00adrassed the pre\u00advi\u00adous gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of elec\u00adtron\u00adi\u00adcists now seem cool again, espe\u00adcial\u00adly if they&nbsp;can&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1227\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cr-listening-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8020,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}