Haujobb: Let's Drop Bombs

If you had the pleasure of catching Recoil on tour recently, you probably are familiar with a one-man project called Architect who played support. This is one of that guy's million and a half other projects, Haujobb, who just released their first album in ages, New World March. This is one of my favorite tracks on the album... fantastic, creative sound design and programming. (Full disclosure: Daniel, who is one half of Haujobb with Dejan Samaradzic happens to be a friend of mine and plays keys for my band live occasionally. There's nothing with pimping your friend's work, is there?)

Umberto

My friend Scott turned me onto this project the other night. The project of Kansas City's Matt Hill, Umberto makes astonishingly authentic-sounding cinematic synth music in the vein of 70's horror score luminaries like John Carpenter and Goblin. If you listened to this without knowing it was made recently, you'd swear it was made in a smokey studio with a bunch of bearded Italian guys twisting knobs of impossibly complicated modulars in 1975. The composition, synth sounds, and lo-fi production is all incredibly dead-on. Anyway, fun stuff. Break it out at your next Halloween party or goat sacrifice and impress your friends.

Umberto MySpace

Buy Umberto's Prophecy of the Black Widow on iTunes