Home Entertainment

There are multiple artists with this name: (1) Home Entertainment find themselves at the intersection where avant garde experimentalism meets garage rock music. Drawing upon a palate of literary, artistic and sonic influences, Home Entertainment create primal, unrefined walls of sound adorned with jagged shards of english low life lyricism. Their debut, cassette garnered praise from The Quietus describing them as '"a weird mix of Sebadoh's crumbling charm, Les Rallizes Denudes' noisy squall, and the blues pop grooves of ZZ Top". (2) Home Entertainment is the name under which Erik Jälevik a.k.a. European Man a.k.a. Last.fm staff member sharevari released some demo tapes in the 1990s. Most of these tracks were made on a shoddy Commodore 386 PC with 2MB of sound RAM and a MIDI-controlled Juno 106. The material on here has been transferred from tape which accounts for the horrendous amount of hiss present. The 1995 Music Predominantly Characterised by the Emission of a Succession of Repetitive Beats Vol. 1 was the first attempt and travels from Black Science Orchestra-influenced nu disco to LTJ Bukem-influenced drum & bass to Plaid-influenced electronica to Portishead-influenced trip hop. Yes, it was very influenced. Not much original thinking going on here. It was mailed off to four UK labels at the time, the only one of which who replied with a rejection letter was Warp. Erik was rather proud of this letter and cut out the letterhead with the purple Warp logo on it and stuck it on his bedroom wall just above the Juno. The second proper demo came in 1998 in the shape of The Second Most Popular Game. This time round, the style was French/Chicago-inspired house and the music entirely sample-based and produced using Acid. It also led to Home Entertaiment's sole 5:25 minutes of fame as the title track The Second Most Popular Game was featured as "Demo of the week" on Calle Dernulf's legendary Wednesday night show P3 Dans on Swedish National Radio. Leftovers is a collection of other tracks produced between 1995 and 1998 and contains attempts at most of the dance music styles popular at the time. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.