Neon City (Remaster), by Deaf Center

Neon City (Remaster)

by Deaf Center

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Natxo Medina A perfect way to start one of the most compelling and haunting music projects of the last two decades. Love this guys and the places they took me with their atmospheres Favorite track: Limn (2021 Remaster).

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1.	Dial (2021 Remaster) 05:57	buy track
2.	Walk (2021 Remaster) 03:07	buy track
3.	City (2021 Remaster) 04:19	buy track
4.	Limn (2021 Remaster) 04:05	buy track
5.	Asia (2021 Remaster) 05:50	buy track
6.	Dial (Helios Remix – 2021 Remaster) 05:34	buy track

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»Neon City« is the debut release by Erik K Skodvin & Otto A Totland's Deaf Center project, finally re-issued 18 years since its first appearance.

Listening to »Neon City« in 2022 is like taking a melancholy journey down rainy city streets of the early naughts, made by the then two young Norwegians in their mid 20s after spending time together in a basement full of vintage items. Armed with young optimism and a sense of musical experimentation, they started sampling everything around them, be it an old television broadcaster, tape recorders, a game of table tennis or conversations on film and merging it with pianos, plucked guitar, strings and anything in-between. The record turned out as something unique in the fields bordering post classical and ambient music, though without landing on any set genre. The record was filling a place in music that was barely touched upon and made them further experiment with samples and classical music which landed them on the 2005's classic »Pale Ravine«.

Although Erik and Otto both had been making music solo before, »Neon City« was the start of their more focused future paths as purveyors of both light and darkness in music that seeps through your soul to battle the anxieties of the world. We're glad to see this important start again be available to new ears. The record comes with a remix of the opener track “Dial” by Helios aka Keith Keniff, taken from the same original.

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released January 28, 2022

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Deaf Center Norway

Deaf Center is the duo of Erik K Skodvin and Otto A Totland operating out of Norway / Berlin since 2003

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St John's Leytonstone

Leytonstone, UK

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