Rental, Robert
Mental Detentions (2lp)
Robert Rental was a Scottish pioneer of DIY electronic music. Along with his illustrious collaborators like Thomas Leer and Daniel Miller, Rental helped shape the countercultural sound of the UK with his timely melding of Krautrock, dub, and punk. Now available on DOUBLE-LP is his 1979 release 'Mental Detentions', co-featuring thomas Leer and originally only released on cassette in 1979. Using an assortment of budget electronics, Robert takes us on a gauzy, trip, at once expansive and intimate, minimalist and maximalist.