Epochen, lassen psychedelisch eingefärbten Techno ebenso anklingen wie krautige Space Rock-Zitate und verrauschte, verzerrte Experimentalklänge. Im Begleittext heißt es: “General Magic set the benchmark in the playful deconstruction of electronic music, setting the pace since 1995 – what else would one expect from such steadfast proponents of the Third Viennese School?”. Das Album erscheint mit Artwork von Tina Frank bei GOTO Records und ist als CD, als Kassette und zum Download erhältlich.

“General Magic, once described as perhaps the strangest, least stylistically constrained project on the Mego label’s roster, pushed the abstraction level of turn-of-the-millennium electronic music forward with audiophonic jewels such as ‘Fridge Trax’ (with Peter ‘Pita’ Rehberg), ‘Die Mondlandung’ and their audacious and joyful debut album ‘Frantz’ (both recently re-released by Editions Mego) as well as the pixel-precise digital sonic journey of ‘Rechenkönig’. With ‘Softbop’, General Magic created a wild and weird beauty of powerful post-digital electronica. The seven track EP will be released in May 2022 via generate and test – the farmersmanual publishing hub for decentralised, incremental, and opportunistic audio projects.” (generate and test)

Burn, General Magic from Tina Frank on Vimeo.