A welcome departure from their first effort, the record has gained greater reconection in recent years when contemporary audiencies could fully aprreciate the strenght and harsher direction the duo decided to take for their follow-up album. More rhythmically-oriented tunes whilst revisiting some old-favorites like "Daguerrotipo" or "La Edad del Bronce" [ both off their first album, but albeit in new mixes ].

The Wah Wah edition has been mastered from the original tapes by Eugenio Muñoz, reproduces the original sleeve artwork and and features an insert with photos and info. It is a strictly limited edition of 500 copies only.

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Mecanica Popular "Baku: 1922"

As proof of how exacting and rigorous the duo’s creative practice was, Mecanica Popular’s second LP, “Baku: 1922” - issued by the legendary imprint, Grabaciones Accidentales, in 1987 - would take a full three years to complete, following the release of “¿Qué Sucede Con el Tiempo?”. Inspired by the sounds of old printing presses, the album’s title offers a fascinating clue into the ideas that rumbled below the project’s activities. It refers to an early avant-garde event - “Symphony of Sirens” - staged by the composer Arsenij Avraamov in the capital city of Azerbaijan in 1922. Operating on a monumental scale, the performance attempted to achieve a radical unity between the arts, technology and urban space, with sounds generated by the movements of crowds, machine guns, cannons, factory sirens, airplanes, hydroplanes, trains, battleships and a steam-whistle machine across the city.

While certainly more humble in scale than the event to which its title refers, “Baku: 1922” bubbles with an equivalent sense of social, political, and creative optimism, masquerading within a similarly sinister pallet of sounds. No less avant-garde in its generative tactics than “¿Qué Sucede Con el Tiempo?”, the album’s nine works are rhythmically driven instrumental compositions that nod toward historical experimental gestures like Rolf Liebermann’s “Composition for 156 Machines”, while keeping pace with parallel developments in underground and industrial music from Europe and the Unitied States - Einstürzende Neubauten, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Cabaret Voltaire, etc. - which had begun to incorporate elements of popular music into their brooding expanses.

Ranging from hypnotic gestures that flirt with Kraftwerk and electronic dance music, to wildly experimental vocal based tape works and brilliant moments of electronic abstraction, “Baku: 1922” emerges 35 years after its original release as a mind-blowing missing link within multiple histories - experimental, electronic, and industrial - of late 20th Century music. Just about as infectious as left-field music comes, not to mention an absolute joy in listening, Wah Wah’s beautiful vinyl reissue, perfectly reproducing the album’s original cover and issued in an extremely limmitted edtion of 500 copies - has been fully remastered from the orginal tapes by Muñoz, and includes a booklet with photos and texts. Like it’s predecessor, it’s insanely essential and not to be missed.