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Deepchord presents Echospace - Liumin

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DEEPCHORD PRESENTS: ECHOSPACE: Liumin 2CD (LOVE 064CD). 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, 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 developed 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. Indeed, a bonus CD that comes with the first pressing of the CD features 80 minutes of these original field recordings. Although the vapor trails of dub still color the essence of much of this new material, Liumin is an altogether more "destroyed" experience than its predecessor, opening with the washed-out, beatless sequence of "In Echospace," a track that somehow manages to harness the disorienting 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 warehouse thump that's entwined with shortwave radio transmissions bringing to life a disembodied horn-section from deep in the ether. 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 both this project, or any of its many imitators.

 

01. In Echospace

02. Summer Haze

03. Sub-Marine

04. Burnt Sage

05. BCN Dub

06. Firefly

07. Maglev

08. Float

09. Warm

 

the previous album by them on modern love is a dub techno classic and i am looking forward to get more. they are also in the process of releasing an album of their cv313 (Dimensional Space) project sometime this summer too.

:emotawesomepm9:

 

http://www.factmag.c...on-modern-love/

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Never heard of this guy is he good?

HELL YE$$

 

(if you're into beautifully produced ambient/dub/techno)

I don't see why I wouldn't be. Looking for torrents now. :)

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That 2CD edition marketing trick will probably work on people like me, but I'm not sure if I want an extra 79 minutes 55 seconds of field recordings. Please make me know once Boomkat starts the pre-orders.

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evan though my wish was that this was an announcement for the follow up to deepchords brilliant album

the coldest season instead of just a compilation, it's still fantastic news.

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Man, I guess I'm the only person underwhelmed by the first album. I really WANT to like it. And I mean, I don't DISLIKE it. I dunno. I will definitely be "investigating" this one I suppose.

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*Reserves a spot on "Best of 2010" list*

 

Please post if anyone finds samples to listen to (don't want to hear about leaks though, support these guys dammit!)

 

As much as I agree with you there, Modell & Hitchell really don't have problems moving product, even after it leaks. Over 90% of their stuff is impossible to find for anything less than a collector's price!

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