Cult Greek label, Live Adult Entertainment, cough up their first readily available release after 6 years of clandestine activity - massive RIYL Muslimgauze, Christian Love Forum, DJLoser, Burial, Christos Chondropoulos, DJ Plead, John T. Gast, James Ferraro
‘Veiled Asperity’ is the 5th album by Chicago cyberpunk Dalibor Cruz, and his first for Live Adult Entertainment; the keenly observed, Thessaloniki-based label renowned for issuing highly covetable items in impossible-to-find quantities, as feted by everyone from Kode 9 & Burial to Vereker.
The 12 track album follows Cruz’s CDs + LPs for Chicago Research and MCR’s Natural Sciences with a fantasy collage of hand-played percussive dervish, sci-fi film samples and cruddy-but-lush keyboard chops that mark a standout batch amid LAE’s near-mythical catalogue. Trust, even if you’re aware of their existence, one normally can’t buy the label’s goods for love nor money, but they’ve truly cracked opened up the puzzle box for this one.
In key with the label’s enigma, ‘Veiled Asperity’ works by a cryptic system of smoke and mirrors suggestion and cues, complicating a sort of ‘90s cyber-noir narrative with aspects of Hollywood orientalism and nods to pulpy Latin drama for a darkly ravishing trip as immersive as James Ferraro’s ‘Hacker Track’ spliced with the sort of late period Bryn Jones that inspired Vatican Shadow, and the cyberfolk urges behind work by JTG, Chris Chondropoulos & CLF.
You can colour us smitten with this type of lark, and especially with the knock-off DVD-style presentation, all hitting a mark rarely felt by stuffier, imaginatively-constipated labels. Who knew a slimline CD could evoke such strong feels? Don’t sleep if you want to know.
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Cult Greek label, Live Adult Entertainment, cough up their first readily available release after 6 years of clandestine activity - massive RIYL Muslimgauze, Christian Love Forum, DJLoser, Burial, Christos Chondropoulos, DJ Plead, John T. Gast, James Ferraro
‘Veiled Asperity’ is the 5th album by Chicago cyberpunk Dalibor Cruz, and his first for Live Adult Entertainment; the keenly observed, Thessaloniki-based label renowned for issuing highly covetable items in impossible-to-find quantities, as feted by everyone from Kode 9 & Burial to Vereker.
The 12 track album follows Cruz’s CDs + LPs for Chicago Research and MCR’s Natural Sciences with a fantasy collage of hand-played percussive dervish, sci-fi film samples and cruddy-but-lush keyboard chops that mark a standout batch amid LAE’s near-mythical catalogue. Trust, even if you’re aware of their existence, one normally can’t buy the label’s goods for love nor money, but they’ve truly cracked opened up the puzzle box for this one.
In key with the label’s enigma, ‘Veiled Asperity’ works by a cryptic system of smoke and mirrors suggestion and cues, complicating a sort of ‘90s cyber-noir narrative with aspects of Hollywood orientalism and nods to pulpy Latin drama for a darkly ravishing trip as immersive as James Ferraro’s ‘Hacker Track’ spliced with the sort of late period Bryn Jones that inspired Vatican Shadow, and the cyberfolk urges behind work by JTG, Chris Chondropoulos & CLF.
You can colour us smitten with this type of lark, and especially with the knock-off DVD-style presentation, all hitting a mark rarely felt by stuffier, imaginatively-constipated labels. Who knew a slimline CD could evoke such strong feels? Don’t sleep if you want to know.