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.

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

HELL YEAH!!

excellent news.

This is great news!

Never heard of this guy is he good?

  On 4/20/2010 at 7:37 PM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

Never heard of this guy is he good?

HELL YE$$

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

Fuck yeah!

  On 4/20/2010 at 8:24 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

  On 4/20/2010 at 7:37 PM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

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. :)

  On 4/20/2010 at 7:37 PM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

Never heard of these guys are they good?

fixd

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.

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.

what you on about? this is a follow up.

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.

Is it wrong that I am actually more excited for the new cv313? "Live" was mind-blowingly good!

awesome

  On 4/20/2010 at 9:49 PM, azatoth said:

what you on about? this is a follow up.

this changes everything

*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!)

i'll feel a bit like a sucker, but i'm gonna want that 2xCD version . . .

  On 4/21/2010 at 6:20 PM, The Green Kingdom said:

*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!

wtb preorders

  On 4/21/2010 at 11:34 AM, azatoth said:

neat cover

leak

where

it hasn't leaked yet.