Berlin based DJ/producer Chloe Lula looks back to her classical training on her debut album, embracing the cello and the natural environments it evokes as a contrast to clubland.
Best known as a Tresor resident and journalist, Lula spent years at various music schools in her youth, rigorously studying the cello before she realised it was a creative dead end and pivoted to community radio and techno. After interviewing artists like Hildur Guðnadóttir and Yair Elazar Glotman, she began to rethink her decision; not only was she inspired by their open-minded compositional approaches, but she'd been missing the physical experience of playing an instrument.
Lula confronts her past on 'Oneiris', using the cello to create dense, (mostly) beatless soundscapes that fit snugly into the Subtext catalogue. Cinematic and bleak, the album is a way for Lula to process phantom memories, and while her technique is the central focus, it's the dense electro-acoustic soundscapes she's able to create that makes it worthy of a closer look. 'Elipsis' is an ideal example; the track's wheezing bowed drones form a rigid foundation, but the eerie electromagnetic wisps and mechanical creaks provide the identity.
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Berlin based DJ/producer Chloe Lula looks back to her classical training on her debut album, embracing the cello and the natural environments it evokes as a contrast to clubland.
Best known as a Tresor resident and journalist, Lula spent years at various music schools in her youth, rigorously studying the cello before she realised it was a creative dead end and pivoted to community radio and techno. After interviewing artists like Hildur Guðnadóttir and Yair Elazar Glotman, she began to rethink her decision; not only was she inspired by their open-minded compositional approaches, but she'd been missing the physical experience of playing an instrument.
Lula confronts her past on 'Oneiris', using the cello to create dense, (mostly) beatless soundscapes that fit snugly into the Subtext catalogue. Cinematic and bleak, the album is a way for Lula to process phantom memories, and while her technique is the central focus, it's the dense electro-acoustic soundscapes she's able to create that makes it worthy of a closer look. 'Elipsis' is an ideal example; the track's wheezing bowed drones form a rigid foundation, but the eerie electromagnetic wisps and mechanical creaks provide the identity.
Berlin based DJ/producer Chloe Lula looks back to her classical training on her debut album, embracing the cello and the natural environments it evokes as a contrast to clubland.
Best known as a Tresor resident and journalist, Lula spent years at various music schools in her youth, rigorously studying the cello before she realised it was a creative dead end and pivoted to community radio and techno. After interviewing artists like Hildur Guðnadóttir and Yair Elazar Glotman, she began to rethink her decision; not only was she inspired by their open-minded compositional approaches, but she'd been missing the physical experience of playing an instrument.
Lula confronts her past on 'Oneiris', using the cello to create dense, (mostly) beatless soundscapes that fit snugly into the Subtext catalogue. Cinematic and bleak, the album is a way for Lula to process phantom memories, and while her technique is the central focus, it's the dense electro-acoustic soundscapes she's able to create that makes it worthy of a closer look. 'Elipsis' is an ideal example; the track's wheezing bowed drones form a rigid foundation, but the eerie electromagnetic wisps and mechanical creaks provide the identity.
Berlin based DJ/producer Chloe Lula looks back to her classical training on her debut album, embracing the cello and the natural environments it evokes as a contrast to clubland.
Best known as a Tresor resident and journalist, Lula spent years at various music schools in her youth, rigorously studying the cello before she realised it was a creative dead end and pivoted to community radio and techno. After interviewing artists like Hildur Guðnadóttir and Yair Elazar Glotman, she began to rethink her decision; not only was she inspired by their open-minded compositional approaches, but she'd been missing the physical experience of playing an instrument.
Lula confronts her past on 'Oneiris', using the cello to create dense, (mostly) beatless soundscapes that fit snugly into the Subtext catalogue. Cinematic and bleak, the album is a way for Lula to process phantom memories, and while her technique is the central focus, it's the dense electro-acoustic soundscapes she's able to create that makes it worthy of a closer look. 'Elipsis' is an ideal example; the track's wheezing bowed drones form a rigid foundation, but the eerie electromagnetic wisps and mechanical creaks provide the identity.