Liumin / Liumin Reduced (Special Edition)
Special Edition - includes an extra album featuring 80 minutes of field recorded treatments made by Rod Modell in Tokyo. 'Deepchord Presents Echospace' 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 honed 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.
Although the vapor trails of dub still colour the essence of much of this new material, 'Liumin' is an altogether more smeared experience than its predecessor, opening with the washed-out, beatless sequence of 'In Echospace', a track that conjurs 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 that's in turn oppressive and soothing, re-creating the uniquely ambiguous euphoria/narcosis that comes with extended sleep deprivation. It's an effect that's perhaps encapsulated best on 'BCN Dub', a heaving thump that's entwined with shortwave radio signals bringing to life a disembodied horn-section from deep in the aether.
There may well be some connection to dub lurking deep in the foggy mists of these recordings - but 'Liumin' inhabits far more opaque and unsettling terrain to anything you may have heard from Modell, Echospace, or any of its many imitators.
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Special Edition - includes an extra album featuring 80 minutes of field recorded treatments made by Rod Modell in Tokyo. 'Deepchord Presents Echospace' 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 honed 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.
Although the vapor trails of dub still colour the essence of much of this new material, 'Liumin' is an altogether more smeared experience than its predecessor, opening with the washed-out, beatless sequence of 'In Echospace', a track that conjurs 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 that's in turn oppressive and soothing, re-creating the uniquely ambiguous euphoria/narcosis that comes with extended sleep deprivation. It's an effect that's perhaps encapsulated best on 'BCN Dub', a heaving thump that's entwined with shortwave radio signals bringing to life a disembodied horn-section from deep in the aether.
There may well be some connection to dub lurking deep in the foggy mists of these recordings - but 'Liumin' inhabits far more opaque and unsettling terrain to anything you may have heard from Modell, Echospace, or any of its many imitators.
Special Edition - includes an extra album featuring 80 minutes of field recorded treatments made by Rod Modell in Tokyo. 'Deepchord Presents Echospace' 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 honed 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.
Although the vapor trails of dub still colour the essence of much of this new material, 'Liumin' is an altogether more smeared experience than its predecessor, opening with the washed-out, beatless sequence of 'In Echospace', a track that conjurs 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 that's in turn oppressive and soothing, re-creating the uniquely ambiguous euphoria/narcosis that comes with extended sleep deprivation. It's an effect that's perhaps encapsulated best on 'BCN Dub', a heaving thump that's entwined with shortwave radio signals bringing to life a disembodied horn-section from deep in the aether.
There may well be some connection to dub lurking deep in the foggy mists of these recordings - but 'Liumin' inhabits far more opaque and unsettling terrain to anything you may have heard from Modell, Echospace, or any of its many imitators.