The exhortation in the album’s name—Remember the Future—helps me keep in mind the unbounded forward-facing optimism we felt in the warehouse raves in late-90s Oakland and SF. As naive as it was, it’s possible that our beliefs in music as universal uniter and technology as the savior of our bankrupt society may still be confirmed.
Unbounded forward-facing optimism
Miguel Angelo Fierro has been releasing music under his Single Cell Orchestra moniker since the heyday of the San Francisco-based ambient techno scene of the mid-90s that produced Spacetime Continuum, Move D, Ambient Temple of Imagination, and the constellation of creative fellow-travellers around them.
While SCO’s output in recent years has not been prolific, it has been of consistently high quality, and this latest release Remember The Future, is no exception. Self released via Bandcamp on his Celldom Records imprint, Remember The Future is a pay-what-you-want download that Fierro, now based in Los Angeles, put out into the world with the following commentary:
“Making this album free / pay what you want for the foreseeable future. Hope this is helpful for people who need music to get through this time. I know I do.”
As I listen, the confluence of the song titles like “Positivity” and “The Math,” the grooved-out production that sits somewhere between early Orb releases and classic techno acts like Carl Cox, and the rock-hard reality of the current Covid-19 pandemic that defines our global moment, is at once heartbreaking and uplifting. The exhortation in the album’s name—Remember the Future—helps me keep in mind the unbounded forward-facing optimism we felt in the warehouse raves in late-90s Oakland and SF. As naive as it was, it’s possible that our beliefs in music as universal uniter and technology as the savior of our bankrupt society may still be confirmed.
At any rate, it’s a free download. Get it, listen, maybe dance around your abode with a pair of glow sticks. We’ll get through this, and when we do, Single Cell Orchestra will provide the soundtrack for our libration.
Remember The Future is available on Celldom.
