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Neu Gestalt is the recording name of Les Scott, an ambient, electronica and experimental artist from Edinburgh, Scotland. His first album "Altered Carbon" was released in 2009. This is downtempo electronica with darkish moods. His second album "Weightless Hours" was released in 2012. This sees a more electroacoustic direction. A third album "Inside The Rain Chamber" is scheduled for release in Autumn 2014. This will see a return to a more electronic sound where Bladerunner-like moods and Hassell-like washes mix with fragments of an unknown oriental language. Music from the first two albums is available for preview on MySpace at:...

===there are more than one artist named "Gestalt" ---1) Gestalt was formed in 1982 in Lyon. The group draws from the musical Pantheon where Jim Morrisson and Léo Ferré, Hawkwind and Béla Bartok cross, and the most inventive formations of the moment, like Tuxedomoon or Mechanic. In this asserted eclecticism, it is especially its own way which Gestalt seeks. That of a dark energy rock'n'roll interfered research in the compositions. That of a permanent aesthetic concern in electric services learnedly put in scene, and in particularly neat texts. With a stable formation apart from the changes of beater, the group...

"The city of Dunedin was settled by Scots, so the streets are laid out almost identically to those in Edinburgh. It was also settled by the separated-at-birth siblings of the Killers. If you can't get enough of them, get to Dunedin and you can get Gestalt Switch. It's not that blatant, as someone in the band clearly listened to Bob Stinson as much as Television, but there's a neo New Wave via post-punk vibe in this one that might just be irreducible to its parts." - Austin Chronicle Fighting the good fight, battling the demons of short attention spans and...