Supermarkets, Underwater is the remix album of Roman Angeleos Underwater Supermarkets album that I reviewed a while ago. This re-mix album would be perfect soundtrack to be playing on repeat while in a submarine exploring around the wreck of the Titanic, reviewing this while the current rescue is taking place in that locale only makes the point for this submersible music being of the moment clearer.
Roman Angelos is the current project of Rich Bennet who collaborates with producer Scott Solter and for this re-mix album a host of re-mixers.
The album opens with Foghorns (Low Order Mix) that has sonar sounds trying to find another lost submersible, full of rich Titanic tourists in the murky depths, can you hear them tapping against the juddering sounds. Feelings of intense claustrophobia at being stuck beneath the waves for days on end trapped who knows where, hoping to hear the distant sonar, with help on its way before you breathe your last.
Entrance (Solution Dilution Mix) is the upbeat sounds of people waiting for that action to begin, the doors about to close, sealing them in the craft, to take them on that underwater journey they are all excited about, no one's too worried about any disclaimers, as this is going to be a happy trip.
The Looking Glass (Agile Peer Mix) has long dreamy tones for staring out of the portal at the wonders below the surface. Swimming through the Aisles (Teeming Mix) has the craft slowly working its way down those aisles trying not to get stuck at the end of the aisles where things get a bit overcrowded, this mix has a lounge lizard laid back edge to it.
Dreaming In The Lake (Palsied Mirror Mix) has shafts of sound peering deep into the murk below looking for some clarity.
Abyssal Plain (Backmasking Mix) has the deep distress signals, hopefully being sent out to save you from a watery grave, the pulses getting weaker as the air runs low, hoping you can still make contact with the surface from 4000 feet below, music for the rescuers carefully searching for the lost craft deep on the ocean floor close to Atlantis.
The Aimless Aquanaut (Riptide And Rumble Mix) goes to the places Hamish wishes he went, coming back again, searching for new treasures in the deep, the synths wave over us, as depth charge percussion hits at our sides, where do we find ourselves, is this where we thought we'd end up, distressed at being lost in the Supermarket under the ocean once more.
Le Plongeur (Pearlescent Pulses Mix) does what it says on the tin, it pulses along every once in a while, diving for pearls, searching for shipwrecks, keeping out of plankton plantations, elegiacally drifting.
The album closes with The Underwater Supermarket (Thierry De Mer Mix) that's a long sonic rumble by the shelves of barnacles, crustaceans, coral and Kelp, the sound of the immense ocean closing in with no sight of the surface for days on end, is there a way to the tills and out of this place, or are they doomed to an eternity in the Underwater Supermarket.
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