21 Commissions for Business

by Martin Glass

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1.	Now Industries (Hypnotransformation) 01:32	buy track
2.	Skytrack (Global Monorail Development) 01:27	buy track
3.	Cato (Reading the World's News) 00:56	buy track
4.	Ruffle (Personal Memory Management Services) 01:18	buy track
5.	Floem (Floral Editing) 01:15	buy track
6.	Infinite Auden (Personal Muse Design) 02:23	buy track
7.	Metternich (Strategic Disinformation) 03:14	buy track
8.	Moove (Off-World Escape Pods) 01:31	buy track
9.	Krutch (Digital Pharmaceuticals) 01:42	buy track
10.	Borel, Borges And Partners (Automated Programming Farms) 01:34	buy track
11.	Oleander (Eco-Activist Ventures) 02:10	buy track
12.	Golden Gate Group (Power 500 Limited Members Club) 01:35	buy track
13.	Canute (Land Reclaim) 02:14	buy track
14.	Zang Zang Thumb (Personal Rocketry) 01:59	buy track
15.	Tangerine (Metaverse Ballet School) 04:36	buy track
16.	Bayeux (Digital Tapestries) 01:11	buy track
17.	Devoted (Cloud Freemasonary) 01:20	buy track
18.	Vox Proxima (Live-Streamed Seances) 02:20	buy track
19.	Milo (Meta-Harassment and Security Services) 03:02	buy track
20.	Dickens (AI Ghostwriting House) 01:51	buy track
21.	Glasshouse (Bespoke Hold Music) 04:24	buy track

about

Mercurial lounge synther Martin Glass returns for the first time since his wildly successful 2017 LP, 'Pacific Visions'.

On '21 Commissions', Martin pivots his attention from lilos and cocktails to a world of psychedelic corporate miniatures, customer hold music, and even office soundtrack design.

What remains is Martin's finely tuned ear for texture and melody, each vignette bristling with tiny hooks and an umami-like topography that will keep you returning again, and again...

Recommended if you like Hype Williams, Susumu Yokota, Boards of Canada.

www.floem.org
www.skytrackrailway.net

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Mercury inside the bubble, Martin's output for brand and business remains prodigious to the point of cynicism.

Seldom longer than 90 seconds, these corporate miniatures were made entirely to order, and at near industrial scale. Their purposes range from sonic ID (Cato, Krutch), through to customer hold music (Skytrack, Canute) and even office soundtrack design (Infinite Auden, Floem). More extended efforts tend to be ambitious, often rejected commissions for company events and / or specific executives (Tangerine, Milo).

As such, this collection - assembled from a cast list of several hundred career commissions - is a puzzling picture of miscellany. At times Glass appears to grapple directly with a clear client brief (Vox Proxima, Now Industries), while at others his own sonic wanderings seem to overpower any immediate professional objective (Ruffle, Dickens).

As evanescent as the audio itself, only a handful of these businesses remain alive today, the brave futures they once promised now faded from sight...

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Praise for 'The Pacific Visions of Martin Glass':

'unmoored and blissfully drifting like clouds' - Pitchfork

'unbelievably gorgeous, I can't stop playing this' - Tom Ravenscroft, BBC 6Music

'wonderfully textural and dreamy soundscapes for future memories of summer places' - Nick Luscombe, BBC Radio 3 Late Junction

'a 4th world cyber-spa only accessible down some hidden hallway in vaporwave’s virtual plaza' - FACT

'assured to quell even the most assiduous of minds' - Crack Magazine

'amazing, I'm totally addicted to this record' - Throwing Shade, NTS Radio

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released November 26, 2021

All music composed and performed by Martin Glass.

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Martin Glass San Francisco, California

Pacific visions and corporate commissions.
Mercury inside the bubble.
Hellodramaticrecords@gmail.com

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