a.s.o. - a.s.o.Here is the debut, self titled album from a. s. o., a duo consisting of . Day and Seror O'Neill show they've mastered the format of the radio friendly pop song and found how to subvert it completely. Across eleven songs, they have built a rich and compelling body of work. We know where we are now, emotionally complex, trip hop torch songs for club freaks. But the palette has broadened to encompass ethereal dream pop la Cocteau Twins, slow burning AOR

rhythmically complex

Kamaal Williams

"The Nervous Track" is a fine example of the duo's deep musical heritage

namely ghetto tech

Sure Thing 4

classics and unclassics is overdue

re-playing it on sparkling synthesizer settings and layering it atop a tactile deep house groove awash with vibrant nu-disco sounds

Often unable to license the original tracks (until the early 90s the result of an international boycott of the country) labels instead hired producers and session artists to re-record them for the local market

The compilation includes pioneering proto-trance and early trance tracks from the likes of Hawke (AKA influential San Francisco producer Gavin Hardkiss)

joined by Lorenzo Soria

‘Amor’ in 1982 plus several more before she sadly passed away late in 2017

In its way it’s absolutely as powerful as “Seeing Aliens"