A solo and sometimes collaborative electronic music project based in the London area beginning in 2013, and exploring a ‘primitive electronic’ DIY sound using mainly analogue synthesizers. With a sound drawn from late 70’s and early 80’s synth material, deep gothic vocals and a pinch of irony ‘This Is The Bridge’ soundscapes are for the serious minimal synth enthusiasts. Talking to Tonn Records, creative force behind This Is The Bridge, Richard Anderson listed his greatest influences in the development of This Is The Bridge’s sound. “Creatively speaking…my love of music. Recalling the very real fear of nuclear war. Childhood. Memories. The 1970s. A teacher playing the class Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave when I was eight. Hearing OMD’s ‘Messages’ on the local radio in Liverpool the same year (and being transfixed). Quatermass. A love of abstraction. The 1980s. The impact of Thatcherism on the UK and on my family. Hearing the opening moments of ‘Exercise One’ when I bought Joy Division’s ‘Still’ compilation LP and first put it on the turntable (that bassline!). Watching ‘Threads’. Feeling like a teenage alien outsider in the South East of England. Post Punk. The Rite of Spring. Science Fiction. Oxygene. British Television. Disco. The experience of art school. Mars - The Bringer of War. Gary Numan. Michael Nyman. History. Feelings of inferiority. Electro House. Killing Joke. Andrei Tarkovsky. Iain M Banks. Xmal Deutschland. A nation living in the past. The 1990s. Asimov. Atheism. The Fall. Clockwork Orange. Depression. Sinfonia Antarctica. Blackadder. The Young Ones.” You have to admit that with that incredible list, Richard deserves at least 30 minutes of your day. Don’t be expecting dance grooves and up-tempo pop classics as they won’t be found lurking in these digital files. Definitely seek this out as a companion piece for those who enjoyed the Electrical Language post from last week.