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about this album
The first release on our fledgling record label. From New York, The Golden Filter. Record producer Stephen met chanteuese Penelope within a buzzing New York art collective where they were surrounded by artists, vintage clothes dealers, musicians and their first love, photography. Out of this creative whirlwind The Golden Filter emerged. ‘Solid Gold’ is their opening statement of intent. With influences like Soft Cell and The Human League, Moroder and Kraftwerk, The Golden Filter are bringing adventure, escapism and imagination back to pop. History, mysticism and astrology collide with love and romance, disco and analogue synths, making The Golden Filter a one-of-a-kind proposition and leading lights in the re-emergence of late 70’s New York style glamour and hedonism. We don’t think it’s any coincidence that’s at the same time as the re-emergence of late 70’s style recession. With its glowing production and haunting vocal, and powered by an incredible, propulsive, Moroder-like bassline, Solid Gold has an otherworldly , even inter-dimentional quality which could easily be the offspring of disco gods Chic, and mind-voyagers-with-guitars Klaxons. As well as the excellent original version, we’ve also got some of our mates to remix Solid Gold: Russ Chimes delivers a glam-house disco fest, Clouded Vision have created a funky dance floor banger which starts in a deceptively mellow way but will definitely having you coming up on your last pill (whenever that might have been, old
