Novoline - Autobahn Zwei

Music: Novoline

Artwork: Giulia Valenti

2020

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Cult visionary synthesist Nat Fowler aka Novo Line enacts 2 hours of Post-Apocalyptic driving music in an extraordinary homage to Kraftwerk, late ‘80s/‘90s sci-fi, and cinematic rave. Spread over 3 tapes and accompanied by excerpts of an imagined graphic novel, it’s a real gesamtkunstwerk of pulpy, savant genius that highlights Novo Line among synth music’s most singular voices.

Outlining an absurdist story set 25 years in a future where oxygen is a commodity like oil, ‘Autobahn Zwei’ is a total and heavily functioning artwork ideal for the last few years of humanity’s guiltless consumption on the road. Over 12 tracks written between 2017-2019 and each averaging 10 minutes in length, Novo Line experiments with new midi-methologies to combine the sort of slow, electrifying EBM/new beat rhythms of his ‘Movements’ and ‘Dyads’ LPs with the cinematic scope of ‘To Qatsi And Die In LA’ (2019) in a riveting electronic saga that surely marks up as his magnum opus.