Thanks for this. I hadn't heard them before, but there's a sort of Neu, Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre vibe I really like.
Basically a Neu! pastiche, but a very accomplished one, so that's no bad thing.
I also love the fact that it#s 172bpm. My favourite Podrunner track is Velocity Angels at 172bpm, which is perfect for me, and it at least starts with some nice orchestral stuff before leaning into the psygoa trance. Most of the Podrunner output leans heavily on the percussion and doesn't do anything interesting in terms of melody and soundscape. This is going straight into my training mix for running away from zombies.
Excellent! I don't pay attention to that level of detail, but I know what you mean about running playlists - too much focus on the function rather than worrying about whether it's something you actually want to listen to.
Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon's random playlist to accompany making the dinner took me even further down the prog wormhole... featuring the likes of Steve Hillage, Ashra, Edgar Froese, Cluster, Faust... my wife was not impressed. Came into the kitchen, said "Are you listening to progressive rock?" and left.
Not entirely sure I liked it all, but I was in the right kind of mood to indulge it anyway.
Today I'm back to my current obsession - Squid - who are quite simply the most exciting new band out there right now, and part of the reason I've been delving into the prog archives - there are so many influences running through their music (they cite Neu! and This Heat in particular), and they sound like so many things that have gone before, you'd have to say there's nothing remotely original about their shtick and yet... they still sound new and fresh and genuinely thrilling.
This is a recent live performance of their current single, Paddling, which gives a pretty good impression of what they're about:
https://youtu.be/ZqLjqRUwsZwAnd here's their last single, which is nothing short of breathtaking - the video is pretty cool, too:
https://youtu.be/__zmVSREvxYThey even do cool Robert Wyatt covers (I've mentioned this one previously in the covers thread)...
https://youtu.be/DktZtQbo-YU