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While working in the army, <a href="spotify:artist:02hNxuXxVCAywmebk1bez2" data-name="Lhasa">Lhasa</a> bought loads of old gear and started experimenting with sound. It was around the time when the whole new beat thing exploded in Belgium which he despised.
At the time he was listening to B-2 Unit by <a href="spotify:artist:1tcgfoMTT1szjUeaikxRjA" data-name="Ryuichi Sakamoto">Ryuichi Sakamoto</a>, or the weird electropop of <a href="spotify:artist:2JIf5JxI3ypOSfrfNIIMQE" data-name="YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA">YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA</a>. That's where his idea of techno was shaped.
After quitting the army around '90, Lhasa had a dark dream that caused him to make <a href="spotify:track:70utZV0a7psCB42gxlLet4" data-name="The Attic">The Attic</a>. The image and the feeling of the dream were so vivid he transcribed them to music in maybe two days.
When the demo was finished, Lhasa went straight to Boccaccio and handed it to <a href="spotify:artist:4yIdARo0jFxIEsaCIpwR9p" data-name="Olivier Pieters">Olivier Pieters</a>, who immediately played it. The Attic went on to become one of the signature songs for which they switched on the big lasers. It started to live its own life: I heard it in shopping streets in Amsterdam, it was blazing from cars, it was huge in Germany after the wall fell, etc.
At the time he was listening to B-2 Unit by <a href="spotify:artist:1tcgfoMTT1szjUeaikxRjA" data-name="Ryuichi Sakamoto">Ryuichi Sakamoto</a>, or the weird electropop of <a href="spotify:artist:2JIf5JxI3ypOSfrfNIIMQE" data-name="YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA">YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA</a>. That's where his idea of techno was shaped.
After quitting the army around '90, Lhasa had a dark dream that caused him to make <a href="spotify:track:70utZV0a7psCB42gxlLet4" data-name="The Attic">The Attic</a>. The image and the feeling of the dream were so vivid he transcribed them to music in maybe two days.
When the demo was finished, Lhasa went straight to Boccaccio and handed it to <a href="spotify:artist:4yIdARo0jFxIEsaCIpwR9p" data-name="Olivier Pieters">Olivier Pieters</a>, who immediately played it. The Attic went on to become one of the signature songs for which they switched on the big lasers. It started to live its own life: I heard it in shopping streets in Amsterdam, it was blazing from cars, it was huge in Germany after the wall fell, etc.
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