Doctor Fluorescent

Description

Doctor Fluorescent’s first album draws us into his world of beguiling electronic pop. Things are often more complex than they first appear: beneath the dreamy, floating surface, sophisticated and seductive musical mechanisms are at work. Doctor Fluorescent is above all a scientist and a researcher, but he also plays various instruments and uses electronic gadgets to give shape to his ideas. He is assisted by musicians Scott Gilmore and Eddie Ruscha, who are content to carry out the Doctor’s orders: plug a cable in here, turn a knob there, in short, do their best to satisfy their boss’s wishes. When they began making music with Doctor Fluorescent, they engaged in all kinds of experiments, without worrying about the results. Their explorations gradually took the form of songs, narrative threads emerged, and the Doctor’s true voice began to emerge (to be perfectly honest, it should be noted that the Doctor was born in the minds of Scott and Eddie, but quickly turned into a person in his own right). Doctor Fluorescent’s music can bring to mind a test pressing of an unreleased album of electronic explorations, discovered in the middle of a pile of old records by Supersempft, Roger Powell and Wally Badarou. The album travels through a wide sonic spectrum; it is experimental in many respects, while adopting pop and melodic structures. Scott and Eddie have each made albums using old synthesizers and vintage drum machines, which makes them perfect collaborators, capable of bringing Doctor Fluorescent’s musical visions to life. “Retro-futuristic synth-pop, at once funky, percussive and relaxed... subtly evokes Herbie Hancock’s Rockit, Holy Ghost, Return to Forever and post-J Dilla beatmakers.” --- The Joy of Violent Movement, US ---