ARC are Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve who have previously released Octane on
Boddy's Something Else Record label. Mark Shreeve has recently been involved
with his Redshift project that due to the use of his original Moog IIIC
modular system has been recreating the vibe and feel of early 70's space
music pioneers such as Tangerine Dream. However in ARC, whilst the Big Moog
is still ever present Boddy's influence can be heard in shifting the music
sideways with a more ambient feel.
Radio Sputnik is a recording of their 1998 concert at the 5th Alfa-Centauri
festival in Huizen, the Netherlands. It includes live versions of 4 tracks
from Octane ( which is now out of print ) as well as 4 new tracks including
the sequencer track to end all sequencer tracks - Arc-Angel.
Track listing:
1) Steam (10.48)
2) Transmit 1 (2.35)
3) Radio Sputnik (7.04)
4) Who walks behind you (5.03)
5) Octane (13.46)
6) Transmit 2 (4.01)
7) Arc-Angel (12.52)
8) Relay (10.33)
Review in the April issue of The Wire in the Outer
Limits section:
Suitably blindfolded, you'd swear this release from the English
DiN label was the bastard offspring of Klaus Schulze. Arc is the duo of
DiN boss Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve, two spacemen obsessed by the big
choral throb of early 70's Tangerine Dream, and their combination of vintage
synths and Moogs, all mainlined with swathes of abstract digital noise,
is an extremely juicy one. When Radio Sputnik really starts to move it
feels as well oiled as Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express.
DiN 7