LAID BACK: free download of 101 Part Two // EP date now 7th May


Laid Back release Cosyland EP / Mini Album on 7th May on Brother Music

There should be more great pop songs about underrated professions...Laid Back's "Bakerman"  rank amongst my all-time top ten  Michael Mayer, Kompakt

A marvellous slice of early electro – propulsive, creepy and addictive - FACT

Slow Rude Synth Waltzes - DrownedinSound

www.xlr8r.com/news/2012/03/laid-back-reworks-old-material-u  XLR8R on Laid Back
Laid Back, responsible for hugely influential disco hits including 'White Horse' and 'Bakerman' count Prince, MGMT, Michael Mayer and Tim Sweeney amongst their many fans. They have also been called the 'proto type Hot Chip' in their time.

Absolute rarities are unearthed on this EP/ Mini Album, taken from original multi-track archive tapes. Recordings at the source of it all were done in 1981 with brand-new equipment such as a Roland TR-808 rhythm box, a SH-101, a Pro-One monophonic synthesizer and a GR-500 guitar controller-and-synth. At the time, this was Science-Fiction. Relevant tapes copied from analogue to digital have just an added drumbeat, bass and vocal ahead of mixes.

All recordings were improvised for their own pleasure while experimenting with a new technology, difficult to learn for mere mortals. Besides, they were mere newcomers and beginners in this context, not knowing to later end up defining a new type of trademark Sound. The current release is an archaeology excavation trip, so welcome aboard on a journey to Cosyland!

Laid Back is basically a very artistic band - not necessarily your "average Pop act". If one has to set a sonic trademark on them, it will have to be their minimal "less is more" style. The secret of Laid Back has always been to make the difficult easy and the complicated simple.

Tracklisting:
1. Cosyland video edit: 3:09
2. Get Laid Back: 4:53
3. Cocaine Cool extended:  5:40
4. 101 Part 2: 4:25
5. Cosyland: 5:06

 



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