PAYSPACE - Self-Titled Cassette
Made in Germany
Electronic, Abstract, Collage the future is now!
At its core, Payspace is nothing more than a fractal stitch-up of tones and samples - something like watching videos on your phone in the middle of a hushed concert. All breathy, dense, minimal, muddled commentary, a smartphone commercial... The first time I heard about them, it seemed too good to be real… “125+ (collective) years in the spiel? That’s experience that counts! But can they make it work? What’s the KPI of this semi-music?”
Those early-day-thoughts are very far away now - on Earth where I left them. Yes, this music takes you somewhere, but don’t expect a rapturous journey - the experience is more akin to deportation or cryogenic freezing. Now that I’ve spent some time with their eponymous debut, what remains is the un-reality of Payspace - the yawning chasm of disorientation inflicted by these seven paranoid missives.
…so I left my job on Earth, and now I work on the moon.Tim Crook, January 2025
PIT NOTE: Finally samples! Bands rarely use have samples anymore, and we are in a world so much more filled with sample potential!
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