Upon first viewing The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, I thought it was shit. Now it’s in my Fast and Furious Top 3. In fact, it’s probably my second favorite Fast and Furious film, right behind the original, and just ahead of the one where they go to Brazil. Though I haven’t seen the […]
Month: December 2023
Herr Shield – “Patch Memory” (2023)
I “discovered” Seattle electronic artist Herr Shield thanks to my main man Sherman, the proprietor of Seattle’s only dedicated electronica record store, Selector Records & Apparel. He posted on Instagram about the arrival of Herr Shield’s debut, a 2XLP colored vinyl gatefold release, and I just had to check it out. It arrived before I […]
Larus Halldór Grímsson & Thorsteinn Hauksson – “Íslensk Raftónlist / Electronic Music From Iceland” (1985)
This record is the fourth in a series of releases by the Iceland Music Information Centre and the Iceland State Broadcasting Service in the 1980s curated to showcase contemporary Icelandic music. The first three focused on orchestral music, violin, and piano respectively, so this foray into the world of experimental electronic music was by far […]
GRÓA – “What I Like To Do” (2021 / 2023)
The first iteration of Life in the Vinyl Lane existed for about a decade before meeting its demise in a fit of frustration. I wasn’t able to migrate the content to v2.0, which was unfortunate but also a positive, because it allowed me to start fresh. I did, however, download all my old posts into […]
Le Chocolat Noir – “Crna Ruža” (2019)
How great is this record? Right from the opening track, which is also called “Crna Ruža”, we’re treated to a blend of techno and industrial, a dark, gothic soundscape full of woe and dread. If Edgar Allan Poe could have conceived of this kind of music, well, it probably would have disturbed him even more […]