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M. Akers
12+ albums
ambientelectronicminimalkrautrockProgressive Electronic
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review of The Elders Of NEW DETROIT from http://weedtemple.blogspot.com Even without listening to the tape, one can see from the packaging alone that Matthew Akers’ The Elders of New Detroit is ripe with retrofuturistic sci-fi and action film imagery, down to the quote from Philip K. Dick’s Second Variety. What is more, the press release cover the typical plot of an 80’s action b-movie: “Black limousines silently roll into view as dope-slinging shit bags congregate at the docks, poised to pull off the biggest scag deal in Detroit. Everything is going as planned until the shipment barge from Windsor is suspiciously late and the inside guy at the police station is not responding. Gunshots break out from all directions as the Detroit 5-0 suddenly storm onto the scene. Que Matt Akers’s synth grooves to bust in on top of the hailing bullets & gratuitous explosions as we root for a scrappy detective who manages to lay waste to every crooked fucker there & clean up the Motor City, once and for all”. Akers stresses in the liner notes that no MIDI or samples were used in the creation of the cassette, which makes it all the more impressive. The music itself is both a tribute and a descendant to the movie soundtracks of John Carpenter and his countless followers, the ultra-polished and purely synth soundtracks of so many movies from the 1980’s. Similarly to the modern macabre techno Chicagoans from Gatekeeper or the French horrorists from Zombie Zombie, Matthew Akers fits into the
