Flowchart's hypnotic ambience has
launched thousands of daydreams and
provided millions with the soundtrack
for their morning tea in the sun. This
is dreamy pop music for those days that
really ought to be Mentos commercials.
Flowchart, n. 1. A schematic diagram or
expository outline showing the progress
of material through the various steps of
a manufacturing process. 2. The
succession of operations in a
complicated activity.
You're floating along in a
gondola under a brilliant blue sky full
of little fluffy clouds when a canoe
passes by carrying a bunch of backup
singers and a piano. You're listening to
their song when you notice a happy
shining sun illuminating the comic book
colors. That's Flowchart, a
necessary layover in the jet-setting
around the global pop scene. After
Pizzicato Five twee-lounge
pastiche and Air's sexy beats,
there's New Jersey's dreamy
Flowchart.
As with the previously mentioned
bands, Flowchart would be nothing
without ABBA (or Free Design, to name-check something
equally as saccharine but more obscure),
soaking their '70s drama queen fandango
deep in playful irony.
"Nationwide Sleep Disorder" is the
detailed outline of Sean O'Neal's
quest for inner peace through
super-ambient casio-core keyboard
textures and maximized minimalism. It is
the first track on Tenjira, the
first of Darla's illustrious
Bliss Out series. See also Commercial, O'Neal's collaboration with hollAnd, also available on Darla.
"Hero Wine" and "New
Radiolab-Rip-Off" are from
Flowchart's 1995 Carrot Top release,
Multi-Personality Tabletop
Vacation. "Envelopment Continuum"
and "Rust a la Glare" are both from the
1997 release Cumulus Mood Twang, also on Carrot Top. "Gee Bee" is
a single release on London's Endorphin imprint. "Jammin' on Tha One" is
available exclusively here at
Epitonic.com.
