Last Known Trajectory have turned up the oscillators since their return to releasing form.
I first came across Jauzas The Shining aka Romain Jauzas on Mighty Robot Recordings (MMR.) Since then the French Electro artist has continued his stark assault on imprints like Transient Force and New Flesh. Jauzas is back on wax, this time for Last Known Trajectory, alongside some special guests for the 70s Sci-Fi title of Nuclear Invasion.
The title piece sees Victoria Luckas (aka Vita, Inkamera, and part of Zerkalo), team up with Jauzas. Frozen chords and a colder atmospheres are bolstered from the outset. Luckas notches down the temperature with vocals distorted and echoed into the decaying bars and sharpened snares. “Crocket” pulsates with some those same arctic tones but it a much more autumnal affair. A melodic and tempered piece of electronics. Victoria Luckas lends her larynx once again for “Reality.” The warmth of “Crocket” is eclipsed, darkness diving onto the unsuspecting listener. The track is removed, cold and unsettling from start to finish. Heinrich Mueller, Gerald Donald’s preferred remix nom de plume, is drafted in on remix duty for the final piece. The interpretation is of a track not on the 12”, “Bohrium 274,” but in fine detached Electro style Mueller delivers a clinical and ghostly closer.
Last Known Trajectory have turned up the oscillators since their return to releasing form. I had heard little of Jauzas The Shining since MMR but Nuclear Invasion is a decent illustration of what this Frenchman is capable of. A record of refrigerated emotions, cruel chords with a whisper of the unearthly, “Crocket” being the embers to the tundra.
Nuclear Invasion is available on Last Known Trajectory.
