Artist : DeepChord presents Echospace
Title : Liumin
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2010
Date : 07/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 02
Label : Modern Love
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : cd1: 79:31 cd2: 79:44
Size : 212,5 MB
Tracklist:
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CD1
01.Liumin 79:31
CD2
01.Liumin Reduced 79:44
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159:15 min
Initial copies come with a bonus CD
featuring 80 minutes of field recorded
treatments made by Modell in Tokyo
æDeepchord Presents EchospaceÆ is the
collaborative project of Rod Modell and
Steve Hitchell, two veteran producers
based in Chicago and Detroit, now
returning for a second full album for
the Modern Love label. In the years that
have passed since their last album both
artists have been busy with numerous
projects, developing their own Echospace
imprint and recording under a number of
different guises. Modell in particular
has developed his longstanding
fascination with location recordings,
and some made in Tokyo over the last
couple of years provided the source
material for what would eventually
become this new album. Indeed, a bonus
CD that comes with the first pressing of
the CD features 80 minutes of these
original field recordings. Although the
vapor trails of dub still colour the
essence of much of this new material,
æLiuminÆ is an altogether more
ædestroyedÆ experience than its
predecessor, opening with the washed-
out, beatless sequence of æIn
EchospaceÆ, a track that somehow manages
to harness the disorientating experience
of being a stranger in a strange land,
with only the flickering glow of neon
lights for company. The album unfurls
with stretches of immersive techno and
low-end treatments compressed with a
growling, unstable focus thatÆs in turn
oppressive and soothing, re-creating the
uniquely ambiguous euphoria/narcosis
that comes with extended sleep
deprivation. ItÆs an effect thatÆs
perhaps encapsulated best on æBCN DubÆ,
a heaving warehouse thump thatÆs
entwined with shortwave radio
transmissions bringing to life a
disembodied horn-section from deep in
the ether. There may well be some
connection to dub lurking deep in the
foggy mists of these recordings û but
æLiuminÆ inhabits far more opaque and
unsettling terrain to anything you may
have heard from both this project, or
any of its many imitators.
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