Future Teenagers/Glenn Astro - All The Styles (Tartelet)

 

Title: All The Styles

Artist: Future Teenagers/Glenn Astro

Label: Tartelet

Cat Number: TART059

Genre: Interesting Beatcraft

1: Future Teenagers - Atlantis Aquatic Theme

2: Future Teenagers - Atlantis Terra Firma

3: Future Teenagers - All The Styles

4: Future Teenagers - All The Drums

Here, Future Teenagers, aka Glenn Astro serve up a beat cornucopia but not before having got the ambient out of the way first in the shape of ‘Atlantis Aquatic Theme’. I guess you could say that a way forward has already been mapped here. Let’s start off nice and meatless, and then build momentum. The sound is simultaneously synthetic, warm and has an overarching oriental feel. That’s what it feels like to my ears anyway. It is developed in a linear way on the first two tracks. Ambience giving away to electro. The beats feel controlled with an emotive backdrop holding sway. ‘All The Styles’ has a much fuller sound. The bass is more vital and the overall feel is one of a surreal break dance off somewhere in the middle of a cityscape that has given way to a rain forest over time. ‘All The Drums’ is more confrontational, but not dissimilar to ‘All The Styles’. What sets it apart is its increased pace and its sub bass. The two more interesting tracks here are bookended by what feel like their foundations. Tracks 2 and 3 are developments of 1 and 4. And they’re all far too short.