Fleeing further

As promised, more of the irresistible Music for Our Future giveaway compilation - from Lusine's intricate pinging poptronica to Willits & Sakamoto's stately, shuddering unfurling via staging points as diverse as King Midas Sound's sonorous future-dub, White Rainbow's accreting analogue haze & Untold's clicky warps...

Further coverage (by MfOF contributor Peter Kirn, as it happens). Photo by Lusine (Jeff McIlwain).

Lusine > Gravity (from A Certain Distance, Ghostly)

Hudson Mohawke > Fuse (from Butter, Warp)

White Rainbow > Raw Shanks a Million

King Midas Sound > Outta Space (Slow Version) (original on Waiting For You, Hyperdub)

Low Limit > Turf Day

Willits & Sakamoto > Toward Water [re-up] (from Ocean Fire, 12k)

Untold > Luna

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"How irresponsible"

You might say that Lusine's Two Dots is 'about' poise & tension. Inevitably, something as joyfully "irresponsible", as the 'song' has it at one point, as the frothy, gorgeous Two Dots is as much about itself as anything else.

Literally: it's a kind of post-modern poptronica celebration of itself - the propulsive relay between its two dots, managing & mining the sweet tension this pair of points sets up. In this, hard not to recognise & relish Ghostly's description of its "gently pinging electronics and swarms of micro-samples"...

Of course, that vivid green cover could be a brilliantly foresightful endorsement of the Iranian opposition. More likely, an unconscious endorsement of opposition in general - the dance of attraction & repulsion.

Lusine > Two Dots (from A Certain Distance, forthcoming on Ghostly; also on this EP - including his own chunkier 'Reverse Engineering' mix, which does without the original's lovely shuffle for benefits I've yet to twig, though the impulse to join the dots in a new way is understandable enough)

Extras: a completist's selection of sanctioned Lusine treats - not all of which have kept up with my developing taste over the past 18 months, but the ravishing Jetstream & Ask You (both re-ups) are both present & correct...

> Jetstream (from Language Barrier, Hymen)

> Inside/Out (from Inside/Out 12", Ghostly)

> Ask You (from Serial Hodgepodge, Ghostly)

> Still Frame [Lusine remix] (from Podgelism, Ghostly)

> Rubberbands (from Emerald 12", Ghostly)

Lusine, who played in the vastly cooler of LMYE's two home towns last night, live in Seattle here.

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Digital dowry (doubled re-up)

NB: post from un-Hyped pre-history updated (& re-upped) with new tracks, blather & self-deprecation...

There are lots of things to love about Cepia - his moody, naive melodies, an always fascinating & intensely textured base of clicks, echoes & beats, the way the one is laid over the other, the cunning, almost drum'n'bass or dubstep-y sense of pace (the idea that a melody can work itself out over a much faster rhythm track & that the tension between the two is what pulls the piece along)...

Opening Parade & Hoarse, giveaways from last year's Natura Morta on Ghostly, say all this more articulately. & in notably fewer words.

So do the clanging, reverbed Ithaca, from this year's Ghostly Swim giveaway extravaganza (re-up: see here), & the vampy, intensely textured remix of Lusine's Flat, from Podgelism.

For a rarer, more ethereal version, try the lovely Countrytime from the Dowry EP (buy it here & enjoy the pretentiousness of an eMusic review that uses the phrase - apparently without embarrassment - "did the budding experimentalist's muse fully exit her shell"!).

Ramp on Idol Tryouts Vol. 2 is a drone-drenched, almost Tim Hecker-esque, take on this side of Cepia. & that's a good thing (or here).

But best of all, to these ears, is sqr exp - a wonderfully warped, lurching, chattering piece on the rare-ish SMM Vol. 2.

Layered & orchestrated (re-up)

Two beautifully layered & orchestrated pieces of poptronica: Closer Musik's yearning, rattling Departures (from After Love, Kompakt) & Lusine's bubbling, backwards Flat for You, remixed by Matthew Dear [perhaps a bit generous with the vocal, but inspired anyway...] (on Podgelism, Ghostly International).



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New discoveries

A 3-course serving of new discoveries - all pretty tasty, at least to an old fart finally getting with the programme: Lusine (or is it L'Usine?) - high-sheen textures & IDM intricacy; Dub Tractor (following recent Future 3 investigations) - Danish indie twangtronica; & Belong - Telefon Tel Aviv-produced gloom & drone, in a good way...

> Lusine: Ask You (from Serial Hodgepodge) [see Kai Zhang video below]
> Dub Tractor: I Woke Up (from Hideout)
> Belong: A Sunny Place For Shady People (from Tour EP via TTA MySpace bulletin)



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