The Berlin sound artist’s mutant pop is entering its fifth round.
On four albums so far, the Berlin multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Theresa Stroetges has conducted a kind of musical field research into her very own mutant pop under the name Golden Diskó Ship. There was folk there, microelectronics, synth pop, field recordings and trace elements of techno and house.
Everything that defines Golden Disko Ship
On her fifth album OVAL SUN PATCH, Golden Diskó Ship moves towards pop, a pop with the wonderful stylistic twists that define the artist. A scattered piece of dream pop can mutate into Giorgio Moroder disco, only to end up somewhere else entirely (“Dolphins With Soft Helmets”).
The three-part “Earth Before The Space Race”, which was originally created as an audiovisual performance piece when Stroetges was artist in residence at Zaratan Arte Contemporânea in Lisbon in 2021, seems like a testament to her artistic abilities. In an epic twelve minutes there is trance techno with noise, anthemic synth-pop, contemplative guitar improvisations and larger-than-life prog-pop. Everything that defines Golden Disko Ship.