Sven Torstenson - Drugs (Black Vinyl, 2023)

Sven Torstenson's notorious Drugs is a loopdigga's fever dream, burs]ng with breaks for days and featuring possibly the most iconic cover of all library music's cult classics. First released in 1980, it's now a hyper-rare and seriously sought-a?er electronic album full of experimental soundscapes and samples just wai]ng to be flipped. It's both terrifying and terrifyingly good. So much so, it's been brilliantly sampled by Kendrick Lamar and Chance The Rapper.
The sleeve describes Drugs as containing "the newest dimensions of electronic sounds. Drama]c underscores for all problems of today's life and society, at the border between reality and delusion." That's pre`y spot-on. The fast moving "Euphoria" is an incredible, unignorable opener. It's loaded with disorienta]ng effects and really needs to be heard to be believed. It's followed by the gorgeous "So? Hallucina]ons", containing quiet, medita]ve and beau]ful sounds - as the ]tle suggests. One listen and you'll want to live in the warm embrace of this beatless, harmonic gem. Sinister squelchy synth stabs don't distract from the sheer beauty of the track's main (gentle) thrust. They only serve to elevate its trippy magic.