British artist Robin Rimbaud has been creating music under the Scanner moniker since the early 90s and his debut release on the newly formed label Alltagmusik, is a tribute to the whacked out and mysterious sounds of 60s and 70s library music. Library or production music is music of all styles that’s produced and owned by music companies with the main purpose for licensing to film, televisions, or commercials. While it’s intended as background music, crate diggers and music producers have rediscovered it over the decades, since the music can be extremely listenable; plus, it’s fascinating how composers would slip avant-garde ideas into a music piece that would end up in some random commercial. Rimbaud’s tribute focuses on the electronic side of library music with mostly short pieces that are reminiscent of something the BBC Radiophonic Workshop would have done decades ago. The music doesn’t feel overly nostalgic, though, and the sparse pieces are forward-thinking, tuneful, and create certain moods, which is exactly what library music is supposed to do.

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