LÜX presents a dozen sound sculptors, each with their own unique ability to deconstruct industrial pathways and visceral soundscapes. The selected artists, while at the top of their craft, dig deep into core foundations to uncover new sonic elements.
Not for the fainthearted
A concept album in memory of Alain JEANNE’s art, LÜX presents a dozen sound sculptors, each with their own unique ability to deconstruct industrial pathways and visceral soundscapes. The selected artists, while at the top of their craft, dig deep into core foundations to uncover new sonic elements.
Subskan opens with the fidgety beauty of “Shun,” its surreal pulse flickers at light-speed as it envelopes the entire landscape. Torgull’s “Forget Facts” rips the fabric of space with broken and slow-motion machines scraping a wall of noise as the atmospheric drone of Virtus’ “Implore” runs through a maze of disjointed, glitchy ruins. The ragged rhythm of Imminent’s “L’Orpailleur” is thoroughly intoxicating as the pummeling drums of Armaguet Nad’s aptly-titled “Paranoia” delivers with immediate intensity.
LÜX simply doesn’t let up and its gradual electronic ascension fractured by its creators is nothing short of spell-binding.
At the halfway point, Zorp Hardsquare’s “The Decimatory Reset” exhausts a plume of disheveled industrial clouds and swarming modular buzzing as Somatic Responses’ crunchy “Cyc BM” ravages the forcefield created by such an intense collection and recombines itself as an aggressively machined behemoth.
With the blips and bleeps melting in a bubbling experimental stew—Offset Zik’s “Contagious” is the result with acid-glitching and a braindance fog. Droning dystopian soundtracks comes to life courtesy of K21 Kroma’s “Corrosion,” as Rotor Militia’s “Maelstrom” signals all life forms to vacate planet Earth without looking back.
And yet, with all that’s come before our ears, the closing pieces have just enough fuel to keep the compilation flowing. Ybrid’s harsh and militaristic clatter on “Ekryl” keeps a grounded momentum as the electrical storm of Ingler’s “Fairdwyn” draws everything to a close; its industrial warfare and technoid hypnotics aligned and fully structured.
LÜX is not for the fainthearted.
LÜX is available on Cathode Muzic (vinyl) / Hymen (digital).
