LACKLUSTER [FINLAND]
subvert (feat. jah)
a huge thanks to esa ruoho, otherwise known as lackluster, for giving fat planet an mp3 taster of his new release, ‘slice’. esa’s being making electronica under the name lackluster since 1997 (via releases on defocus, merck, rikos, monotonik and more), mixing the kind of lush melodies that characterise some of the great IDM pioneers, and splicing that with some unorthodox and idiosyncratic beat production – a fine marriage, at once both familiar and altogether new. if there’s one thing that has characterised lackluster‘s output it’s the staggering volume of work that he’s distributed freely around the net – you can fill hours, if not days, of your precious listening time tuning into mp3s found on monotonik, archive.org and lackluster‘s own site at lacklustre.org. it’s little surprise then that this new release is thus far only available to buy online through lackluster’s web shop. the above track, ‘subvert’, closes the 13-track album with a looping assortment of audio debris, with a vocal from jah strewn, distorted, across the landscape – an instant indicator of lackluster’s complexity and variety and a simple enough reason to click here and get the album.