Description
Epstein is the work of Roberto Carlos Lange, sometime collaborator with Scott Herren (Prefuse 73, Savath & Savalas).
Sealess Sea is the sound of the world. Its like Epsteins MPC sampler is strung up on every telephone wire, duct taped to every bus stop, hidden in every mailbox and wiretapped to every telephone in an 800 block radius of his Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment.
Its a gushing, forward-surge into the mics and sampler. And what comes out? Bass, beats soundscape dance jams. Its noise-influenced but structurally tight a slow wash of drones and percussion morphing into hot, humid, end-of-summer blockparty music.
Over the course of 17 tracks and 37.7 minutes, Sealess Sea is a peachy landscape of summer sound. The key word here is, of course, sea. This new full-length is Langes dissertation on ideas of swimming and drowning, of awesomely weird sea animals and full psychic immersion. Its a record that feels like a thing born from water, a warbling undersea journey from tropical surface to sun-filtered depths. (Imagine an octopuss garden party, only with DJs instead of Beatles.)
These are collages (Lange likens Epsteins music to graffiti, a direct mind-to-mics recording experience) where a whole prismatic spectrum of sound comes through your speakers, a colourful bouillabaisse of influences, samples rising up out of the broth, surprising drum breaks, and hyper-visual, gently blown-out noise asides.
Limited edition of 500 copies on LP.
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