"It has always been there, you just have to discover it".
2009-11-06 by Hal BerstramRobert Leiner – Aqua Viva
I’ve been transferring a bit of vinyl to FLAC & mp3 over the last few weeks and there some great records I forgot I even had. Octaves/Tremeloes by Sonic Boom is one. Visions From the Past from Robert Leiner is another. And this is one of the best tracks from that long player, going all the way back to 1993 or thereabouts.
Robert Leiner is a brilliant Swedish electronic artist who was capable of both ambient techno and a drop of the harder stuff. Visions… is more on the ambient side, but is not afraid to get a bit beaty on us. It starts off with quite airy, flutey synth with a beat that is pretty much house to my (admittedly rather untrained) ears, and some nice sequencing right in the background. Around halfway, here comes the sequencing and suddenly it’s a little bit more acidic and the spirit of Klaus Schulze pours us another. A long track that doesn’t outstay its welcome.
The rest of the album is just as good – been out of print for yonks but now available on emusic (as well as several other places) for download, along with Leiner’s contemporaneous (but slightly harder) The Source Experience. Amen to that.
The posting title is written on the back sleeve of the record, by the way!
Download MP3 (0:00min / 0MB)
- discogs page for 'Visions of the Past'
- Nice to have the original vinyl if you can find it... complete with limited edition 'Source Experience' white 7-inch!
- emusic page
- for those who prefer the non-physical form
Comments 
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Love all the Ambient/Techno stuff but I mainly vistit for the superb choices of JAzz/Dub/Reggae/Hip-Hop/Weirdness etc.
Please post more!!!
&keep up the good work! :-)
This is an amazing tune…and bravo to 'contemporaneous' as well.
'A long track that doesn’t outstay its welcome' – perfectly put.
Damn this track is tuff. I'm def diggin your site.