Most fans of vintage electronic music strive to make music like Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream made anywhere from 1975 to 1984 or so. The duo known as Blutiger Fluss aims more around 1972 to 1974, when freeform flowing electronics were the order of the day, before something called a sequencer became all the rage and seemed to define the genre ever after. Although Jeff Hutchison and Jim Duede formed the band in 2008, they have quite successfully created a sound rooted in origins some 35 years prior. Four lengthy drifting pieces of space music, all with German titles, harken back to a simpler yet more adventurous time in musical exploration. Though there are no beats or distinct melodies, the soundscapes are continuously shifting and changing. Perhaps best of all, the only thing Hutchison and Duede have truly copied is the spirit of that period of time in electronic music; the music itself is to my ears quite fresh and original. The sound is purely synthetic, thoroughly electronic. Though futuristic it also has a primal quality. It does not sound like Zeit or Phaedra, or Picture Music or Blackdance; it sounds like some new, undiscovered gem of a band from that time period has recently been unearthed. And in a way, I suppose it has.