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Album Review: LA Takedown - II

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"A playful safari on the moon with distinctly small screen cinematographic aspirations."

Not quite the movie from '89 about tough cops and bank robbers, LA Takedown is Aaron M Olson's instrumental project.

If we were living in the '80s, LA Takedown would've been writing theme songs for shows like Knight Rider, MacGyver and Miami Vice. Widely described as Baywatch Krautrock, Olson and his band work the '80s cheesy theme song formula. While sounding like rare vintage nuggets of library music, it's the element of kosmische in the mix that adds texture and steers this album away from being pure cheese. A playful safari on the moon with distinctly small screen cinematographic aspirations.