Going to keep it short this morning. Here’s something by viA fAntAsticA which is one of those strange and almost uncategorizable tracks. A cut and paste downtempo track with the perky quirk of Lemon Jelly or Coldcut.
According to their blurb, “viA fAntAsticA is J.T. and Gaia de Voxx on a DIY synth pop journey. J.T. is Justin Toland, erstwhile purveyor of loops and found sound on Recordiau Peski and self-released cassettes under the name Location Baked. Gaia de Voxx is his droid vocalist.” They’re from Cardiff in Wales if that helps at all.
Onstage, Right Now.. is a track that simply makes you smile. It opens with marching drums that pelt along before being joined by organs in a sixties kind of vein. And then the title sample comes along to give it all a psychedelic disorientating spin. But it’s all enormously uplifting and positive. A lovely bit of cut and past with an irreverent rave aesthetic. The track is taken from their 2 any 1 album which, “began as an imaginary soundtrack to a 21st century kitchen sink drama set in the faded seaside resort of Porthcawl.”