Picture this, your humble 20JFG scribe awakens on a rainy Berlinese morning with the headache to end them all, brought to existence by one of those eternal & crazed nights that seem oh so frequent in that city of angles and angels, he sits in a comfortable sofa and turns on the TV looking for solace, to find himself confronted with Pink Floyd’s ‘Live at Pompeii’ live recording from the 7th of October 1971 projected in all its vintage glory in one of those European arty TV channels.

Which is frankly astounding

A strong feeling of wonder, awareness of being witness to some powerful psychedelic mass through which the musicians are somehow establishing a direct connection with invisible energies which animate all that is invades his lethargic yet enthralled body. As the camera rotates in a metronomic spiral, he can almost see the spirits of the peoples of Pompeii, those who did watch the eye of a sun opening up in the summit of Mt. Vesuvius to watch them back with a fiery gaze, gathering around Pink Floyd’s fiercely focussed bodies, silent, silent, listening.

He passes out.

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Pink Floyd- Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Live at Pompeii 1971)

And let us continue our explorations of the folded loops covering the fabric of things, which you can behold in all their pervasive glory if you slow the rhythm of your perceptual patterns. By the hand of Studio, of course, who else?

In their remix of Fontän’s fantastic AM radio cosmic runner ‘Early Morning’ they deliver one of their trademark balearic dub trips, everything in it rattles and reverberates like the light of the sun bouncing a million times reflected across the tranquil waters of a Mediterranean sea under which you float in something that approximates Zero gravity, it is in that moment of perfect and warm womb-like calm when you can hear your blood pumping to the beat of a relaxed heart, little iridescent bubbles ascend to the surface swaying in a gentle dance which is the dance that Studio make.

Fontän- Monday Morning (Original Tempo Version by Studio)