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The affair with the opportunities. The coming of age in post- and pop modernity. Andrea Mangia could tell you a track or two about that. Currently on “Drawn in Basic”, the third album – released by Morr Music once again – that the young man from Lecce, Italy, has published under the name of Populous. Whereas “Queue for Love” (2005) curiously broadened the abstract-electronic foundations of his debut “Quipo” (2002) with the coordinates jazz, folk and especially soul (as an attitude as well as a sound) “Drawn in Basic” definitely has become ears in any directions. This record sails in a casual and cool manner on the great lake called pop music. Andrea Mangia is both at the same time: captain and stowaway, songwriter and sound-bricoleur. His tracks are tricky and polyphonic but seconds later four to the floor. That’s the way of someone who has listened intensely for a long time himself. Someone to whom De La Soul has meant as much as the Smashing Pumpkins’s “Siamese Dream”. Someone who has fallen in love with the feedbacking guitars of My Bloody Valentine equally as he feels today about the peculiar sounds of the synthesizer’s pioneer Raymond Scott. Peculiar synthesizers are assembled on “Drawn in Basic” as well, not as a cool end in itself but for their warm sounds. Just the title: “Drawn in Basic”. Basic like the programming language of the same name, the translation of analogue pop music into a digital matrix. Basic like the self-chosen simplicity, the reduction to the essen

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Remixed In Basic

Remixed in Basic: Remixed Version of "Drawn in Basic"

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Remixed in Basic (Remixed Version of "Drawn in Basic")

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Populous

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TXDC»Chill

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Cornerstone Player 079 (Disc 2)

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Drown In Basic

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Remixed In Basic (Remix Version of Drawn in Basic)

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Morr Music Compilation - Berlin Music Week 2010

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Digitalis. Analog rock, digitally-affected, to calm the agitated heart. [SomaFM]

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