We last featured music from the Happy Robots label last year with a great remix by Pye Corner Audio. We’re back with the label to bring you the latest video from Mood Taeg, for their track Squirrels Dancing Among Elephants.
Mood Taeg are a three-piece Scottish/German musical project split between Düsseldorf and Shanghai, and create an exciting blend of classic krautrock, combined with contemplative post-rock.
Mood Taeg is a musical project split between Düsseldorf and Shanghai. The band is part of the wider Mood Taeg Kollektiv which includes musicians, graffiti artists, DJs, photographers, painters, and video artists. The project was started in 2016 as a musical outlet for Kollektiv members Lowell Freeman, TDK and K’ko but it is also a project for fellow Kollektiv members such as Faible who creates visuals for the band.
The musical style of Mood Taeg reflects their love of German experimental music from the 1970s and the legacy it has in other musical styles such as Hip Hop and Electro. Mood Taeg creates a sound which pulls together influences including Jaki Liebezeit and Klaus Dinger, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Can, Cluster and Harmonia.
Many of these influences are apparent in Squirrels Dancing Among Elephants, which flows effortlessly with delayed melodic fragments flowing through the track, driven along by an almost locomotive inspired rhythm section. Checkout the video for Squirrels Dancing Among Elephants below. It’s an edited ‘radio version’ of the track taken from their second album to be released in September…
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