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Home Entertainment
12+ albums
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There are multiple artists with this name: (1) Home Entertainment find themselves at the intersection where avant garde experimentalism meets garage rock music. Drawing upon a palate of literary, artistic and sonic influences, Home Entertainment create primal, unrefined walls of sound adorned with jagged shards of english low life lyricism. Their debut, cassette garnered praise from The Quietus describing them as '"a weird mix of Sebadoh's crumbling charm, Les Rallizes Denudes' noisy squall, and the blues pop grooves of ZZ Top". (2) Home Entertainment is the name under which Erik Jälevik a.k.a. European Man a.k.a. Last.fm staff member sharevari released some demo tapes in the 1990s. Most of these tracks were made on a shoddy Commodore 386 PC with 2MB of sound RAM and a MIDI-controlled Juno 106. The material on here has been transferred from tape which accounts for the horrendous amount of hiss present. The 1995 Music Predominantly Characterised by the Emission of a Succession of Repetitive Beats Vol. 1 was the first attempt and travels from Black Science Orchestra-influenced nu disco to LTJ Bukem-influenced drum & bass to Plaid-influenced electronica to Portishead-influenced trip hop. Yes, it was very influenced. Not much original thinking going on here. It was mailed off to four UK labels at the time, the only one of which who replied with a rejection letter was Warp. Erik was rather proud of this letter and cut out the letterhead with the purple Warp logo on it and stuck
