Hearts of Space #881 Summertronica 4 (07-17-2009) (RE-UPLOADED) FLAC-MP3

Ambient - Downtempo - Instrumental RE-UPLOADED by request


Quietly ecstatic techno-tribal sounds from hot places

Program Notes by Stephen Hill, Producer
It's probably a reaction to our increasingly safe, predictable, scheduled lives, but a longing for the ecstatic, the primitive, and the archaic has been sweeping through Western music for almost a hundred years.

IGOR STRAVINSKY's "Rite of Spring" — a fertility ritual — with its intense dissonances and pagan polyrhythms, took an opening shot across the bow of civilized European art in 1913. Its premiere, famously, caused a riot.

From the polite 19th century Romantic fascination with the "noble savage," through R&B and the rock 'n' roll stance of "Elvis the Pelvis," to the trancey ethnic rhythms of today's techno-tribal dance and ambient music — we continue to seek the energy and the release...of the ecstatic.

On this transmission of Hearts of Space, another techno-triba-delic journey called SUMMERTRONICA 4.