Singleversity #64

Audiversity’s weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness.

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I haven't been doing much reading around the Internet lately, so I have no idea what the cool kids are listening to. I just know that Spaniard Ilya Santana has produced a hell of a space-disco slab on his EP Arcanus which came out in May on Ukrainian(?!) label Manuscript. Perhaps best known for a Human League remix of "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" (from 1981's Dare!), Santana continues his ever-improving work in the Canary Islands. Maybe we'll see a full-length someday, but in the meantime, here is b-side "From Uranus to Mercurius."

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Space-disco tends to put you to sleep when it's not captivating you, so to balance this out, I'm still using old school emocore from the mid-90s to help me. Indian Summer is an excellent example of the genre. The Oakland-based band only existed for three years or so, and they made things especially difficult by not actually naming any of their songs. Tracking their stuff down was difficult for a long time because they stuck primarily to split 7s with contemporaries such as Current and Ordination of Aaron. Future Recordings made things easier by reissuing their two LPs and one of the highlights is "I Think Your Train is Leaving," which first appeared on a split with Embassy (Good luck finding anything else on them). The most well known addendum to this story: Marc Bianchi went on to front Her Space Holiday.