Morgan Geist
A New Jersey boy initially inspired by Great Britain's take on the sound of Detroit, Morgan Geist eventually tracked the roots of techno back to Motor City innovators like Derrick May. Unlike many influenced by tracks like "Strings of Life" and "Nude Photo," Geist placed equal weight on the emotional power of Detroit techno as well as tight programming and combustive percussion. When he began listening to music, however, it was the sound of early-'80s synth pop heroes like Devo, Severed Heads, and Depeche Mode. The early British techno of 808 State and ...[more]
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At the outset, Double Night Time might be met with some degree of slight, partially greed-related aggravation. Morgan Geist's first true solo album since 1997's lost classic The Driving Memoirs, nearly half of it is made from previously released material, and its featured vocalist is Jeremy Greenspan, whose Junior Boys -- more so than ever here -- are stylistic peers. It could be speculated that, several years removed from peaking in notoriety with the Metro Area full-length, Geist want [ read more ]
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Double Night Time is the new album from Morgan Geist and his first solo artist album in over a decade. After turning the dance music world on its head with his Metro Area project (alongside collaborator Darshan Jesrani) and mining rare disco gems with the seminal obscure disco DJ mix Unclassics (2004), Geist decided it was time to turn his attention to a solo album that would indulge his own early influences and guilty pleasures: techno-pop, prog rock and pure electronic music. While Double Night [ read more ]
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A fascination with otherwise unsought electronic-disco singles of the mostly European persuasion turned into a cause for Morgan Geist, who took it upon himself to doggedly reissue a few of his barely known favorites on Environ. Leave it to him to pluck something like Purple Flash's "We Can Make It," an instrumental mini-anthem recorded several years too late -- and in the wrong country, namely Canada -- to factor into disco culture in the manner of an "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now." Roug [ read more ]
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