Tracklist:

Altruistic Endeavor

Game Changers

Tuning Into Frequencies

Original Pattern

Metatron

Next Destination

Beyond My Wishes

Visualize To Materialize

Quality 2017 project back in... Archival release of Steve Rachmad's long time side project where he exposes the more funk / electro side of his talents. This is musical machine-head side of the Amsterdam electro scene (also purveyed buy the likes of Comtron). Dense undertones of Cybotron/ Model 500 on this one... Top notch productions from a Dutch Master. Check!

Some things are just too good to be hidden from view. That’s certainly the case with the first album from Dutch electronic music legend Steve Rachmad’s lesser-known Sterac Electronics project.

He first established the alias at the turn of the millennium, primarily as an outlet for hardware-driven electro music shot through with funk and soul.

A handful of highly regarded 12” singles were released on Music Man and Interpersonal XP, before Rachmad began focusing on other projects. When inspiration struck, he returned to the project, jamming out tracks using a mighty collection of vintage synthesizers and drum machines.

Recently, Rachmad and Tom Trago decided to revisit the Sterac Electronics archive, discovering a killer collection of cuts created at different points over the course of the last 15 years.

Now 9 of those spellbinding hardware jams have been gathered together for the first time on Things To Think About, a warm, rich and evocative collection of electro-fuelled workouts that giddily pay tribute to the music of Rachmad’s youth.

From the thrusting, synth-driven machine funk of “Original Pattern” and mutant electrofunk revivalism of “Game Changers”, to the baggy West Coast boogie of “Metratron” and intergalactic hustle of “Archetype” (which sounds like Cybotron covering the 1988 version of The KLF’s “What Time Is Love”), Things To Think About is an lesson in the emotion-rich, mood enhancing possibilities of spontaneous hardware jams.

The tracks feel timeless, as if they could have been made at any point during the last three decades. From Steve Rachmad, we wouldn’t expect anything less.