The river’s mouth is where the waterborne silt settles in the delta, a boundary zone between narrow and endless. Before debouching there, Ruoho follows the cloudy drift downstream to the sea, capturing every ripple and current with minimalist symphonic elegance. Although he’s been pursuing a prolific and critically-successful career making techno music as Lackluster, every [...]
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Five questions for Kahvi Collective
“Kahvi specializes in a certain niche target, the IDM/ambient kind of area, so there never will be millions of listeners, but I think that the size of the audience is growing all the time and continuously I get good feedback on the label and music. The label stands apart from the quality of the releases [...]
Xurba :: Xurbatronics System 3: Remixes (Electric Studio)
Subtle melodies crash against waves of up-front emotional tear jerkers; one might even recall to mind Toytronic heavyweights including Gimmik and Abfahrt Hinwil as the selected remixes are filled with pristine electrical flutter and produced with high levels of accuracy. [Purchase at Xurba shop] WIll Brazier’s third outing in the Xurbatronics System series, this time [...]
Lackluster :: R U Oho? (Merck, 12")
Be it because of distribution problems, lack of publicity or even poor mastering, this collection of remixes of Lackluster tracks passed right under the radar on its initial release. This is a shame because there really is no reason for this 12″ not to be considered a classic. Clearly there are people out there who [...]
Lackluster :: Remixselection_one (Psychonavigation, CD)
It’s almost inevitable by now that most people who have scratched the surface of electronica and IDM will have come across at least one reference to or example of the work of the prolific Lackluster and a summary of his discography of released works to date would take too long to adequately flesh out here. [...]
V/A :: Intelligent Toys (Sutemos, MP3)
Intelligent Toys was released on February 29th, a rare day which Sutemos gleefully claimed as an appropriately special day for their first compilation — the culmination of a long year’s work to bring their vision to fruition. In addition to snaring a number of unreleased tracks for this release, the fine folks at Sutemos commissioned [...]
Lackluster :: Wrapping (DeFocus)
Wrapping is Lackluster’s follow up album to Container on DeFocus. The question is.. where has this been for the last two years? Almost drifting into the world of legend it began to look as though this album would never be released, much to the annoyance of many – not least Esa Ruoho himself. The answer [...]
Aurora :: Compilation (Merck Records)
The Aurora compilation is a departure from the Merck releases thus far. It is a compilation composed of ambient tracks created by released and unreleased producers alike. Most of whom are primarily known for their IDM output. The music has a lot of warmth to it and a very high melody/noise ratio (as you would [...]