(Experimental, Synthwave, Synthpop, Downtempo, Ambient) Sand Circles (Martin Herterich) - Motor City - 2012 [WEB], (Not Not Fun # NNF256), FLAC (tracks), lossless

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Analyzed: Sand Circles / Motor City
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR11 -1.73 dB -14.92 dB 1:51 01-Entering Motor City
DR6 -1.28 dB -8.45 dB 3:32 02-White Sand
DR12 -0.19 dB -14.62 dB 3:28 03-Motor City
DR13 -0.60 dB -15.04 dB 2:15 04-Downtown Holdup
DR10 -1.41 dB -13.41 dB 2:53 05-Innercity Haze
DR7 -1.78 dB -11.54 dB 2:36 06-Distant Lights
DR10 -1.69 dB -14.24 dB 6:32 07-Endless Nights
DR11 -5.79 dB -20.81 dB 3:29 08-Motor City II
DR10 -4.24 dB -18.29 dB 3:12 09-Descending into Space
DR12 0.00 dB -14.68 dB 3:17 10-Summer Echoes
DR9 -6.11 dB -20.49 dB 1:10 11-Summer Echoes II
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 703 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Sand Circles is the solo moniker of the Stockholm based musician and producer Martin Herterich. Herterich has released and performed under various guises over the last ten years, with Sand Circles being both his longest running and most recognised project. Despite this, and with the exception of compilation appearances, Sand Circles is yet to make an appearance on vinyl. With this reissue of 'Motor City,' Sand Circles' first major appearance on the medium is rightfully made with his most important work.
'Motor City' could take place in most big cities; there are no geographical signifiers to the titles, nor does the sound signal one particular place. At best the arpeggiated motifs that circle Herterich's hazy rhythms, as well as the cool dawn synths, casually point to Detroit from a distance. Rather, the tape-saturated, cinematic synth lines and the simple electronic percussion present the idea of a metropolis, with all the nauseating ecstasy and sweet desperation that such a place holds.

Boomkat Product Review:
Posh Isolation reissue of this fantastic album originally released on Not Not Fun a couple of years ago. Here's what we had to say about it when it first came out...
What's so great about Not Not Fun is that despite careful curation, the label has an anarchic attitude to its release schedule that seems a million miles removed from the meticulous, promotion-driven approach adapted by so many so called tastemaking labels these days. It imbues NNF with an almost disposable quality that seems to suggest that it's not really about playing the 'long game' and that life's too short to really think about how this or that record might sounds in a couple of decades or whether this or that blog is into it.
It also means that the label has a relentless schedule that you'd be forgiven for failing to keep up with, and if you just happen to miss that diamond buried in amongst all the tapes, twelves and albums they release on NNF and their 100% Silk offshoot - oh well, chances are that a bigger label will license it at some point down the line anyway.
Which brings us to this digital edition of a limited cassette recently released by the label from Martin Herterich’s Sand Circles project, his second for the label, now available on download formats, and a release you really shouldn't miss. After opening with a fairly unremarkable intro taking in Kosmische of the most airy, spiralling variety, second track 'White Sand' is a total revelation, sounding like Andy Stott fed through a kaleidoscope, full of sludgy beats and faded chords that in themselves sound like classic Boards of Canada.
Further in, the album features slowed-down midnight pop a la Glass Candy/Chromatics, narcotic disco jams and treated Motor City strings - all bursting with that rich tape saturation. It's probably the NNF release we've enjoyed most since the Peaking Lights album last year and comes to you with a massive recommendation - especially if you're into that slowed down/sludgy Andy Stott sound, here deployed with added colour.