Antenne - #1 (2000)

artist: Antenne
album: #1
release date: 2000
label: korm plastics
tags: electronic, trip-hop, idm, experimental
quiet snow

1. Here to Go / 2. Like Rain / 3. Let Me Ride It / 4. Whispering / 5. PPG hold prg. 11 / 6. Moving Slow / 7. Something Not to Do / 8. Memo

If you have a genuine interest in what happened to trip-hop after Dummy and Mezzanine, then you have no reason whatsoever to miss out on Antenne's albums. If you think Dummy and Mezzanine aren't sophisticated enough, this might satisfy your appetite - the basic forms, conventions of trip-hop are bend into something else, a lot more electronic, quite minimalist, with poetic force first and foremost (just listen to the winter lullaby that is "Whispering" or the brooding "Like Rain", in which Marie Louise Munck's echoes actually fall like rain) and with a fair share of sparse instrumental moments ("Let Me Ride It", "PPG hold prg. 11") that all contribute to a certain charm. It is a cold, rather bleak record, but you can also detect a sense of humanity in all this.