Artist: Tilman Ehrhorn Title: Past Utopia Label: Neo Ouija Cat#: NEO33 Releasedate: January 28, 2011 Digital Distribution: Finetunes.net www.neoouija.com martin@neoouija.com Tilman Ehrhorn´s debut album "Task", inﬂuenced by other contemporary electronic artists as well as his background in jazz music, was released on the Mille Plateaux label in 2003. On his sophomore album *Heading For The Open Spaces* he turned towards a more or less characteristic ambient sound, working with calm tracks, sounds and atmospheres, that are nevertheless inspired by the funkyness of 70́s jazzrock music. The manufacturing process of his newest album "Past Utopia" is still based on sample work and software but besides the virtual sound design, instruments like vintage analogue synthesizers and electric guitars are used as a source of sound. Most of the tracks on "Past Utopia" are musically inspired through British Pop Music. The beginning of the Psychedelic/Progessive Rock era of the late sixtieśs, including groups lush as Pink Floyd, Genesis, Tomorrow and Yes might be as well a big inﬂuence as conceptional productions of the early and mid-eighties, like Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Depeche Mode and Talk Talk. Therefore the idea behind "Past Utopia" is to introduce music that doesn't ﬁt into the stereotypical attributes of electronic music. Instead, Tilman has crafted abstract and modiﬁed instrumental pop songs that combine the spirit of different musical epochs with an