On a mission to rock the system...one world, no borders
Outside Broadcast are electronic music newcomers and the latest venture emanating from the Welsh-based Blue Rider Music project, releasing their debut album on July 31st. Like the expressionist art movement from which it takes its name, the Blue Rider Music project evokes spiritual soundscapes and atmospheric canvases of sonic colour to elevate the mind and enrich the soul. The launch of Outside Broadcast and the Modality debut album adds a sharper, more focused
direction for the project – reaching out to a wider audience, transmitting across borders with a greater sense of urgency to relay a beacon of hope and progress in an age of increasing global divisiveness, tensions and chaos.
Outside Broadcast’s motto could easily be ‘something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue’ to create a perfect marriage of musical styles and influences. The Blue Rider art movement and its counter-culture principles sit proudly at the heart of music that draws heavily on the influences of electronic music pioneers of the 1960s and 1970s – not least the German
‘Krautrock’ collective including Tangerine Dream, Can, Kraftwerk, Neu, Faust and Amon Duul II, alongside the likes of British psychedelic rock’s Hawkwind, Gong, Tim Blake and Pink Floyd. But these ‘old’ influences are fused with more modern inspiration in the form of Autechre, Burial, Clams Casino, Jon Hopkins, Cristobal Tapia de Veer and art rockers Everything Everything to create a distinctive new genre-bending sound that remains evocative of a rich and eclectic musical history.
Use of sampled vocals and spoken word – the ‘borrowed’ – often drawing from world music and dystopic film and fiction influences underline the messaging that runs through Outside Broadcast’s music.
