DeepChord presents Echospace - In Echospace [H.D]

Crackle.... Analogue ¦ Field Recording Heaven. “In Echospace“. The opening track from ’Liumin’ - the massively anticipated new double CD by DeepChord presents Echospace, released on Manchester’s finest ’Modern Love’ label [LOVE064CD]. June 2010. Watch in HD 1080. Originally uploaded to You Tube on my previous channel on 17th June 2010. Deepchord presents Echospace: ....no introduction needed to the artistes (Rod Modell and Steve Hitchell) involved in this project. If you have been asleep, comatose, or missed these guys throughout their careers over the years then I strongly reccomend that you educate yourself by clicking on the ’related links’ section below for more information. Modern Love: is a record label based in Manchester, UK. We’ve released records by Claro Intelecto, Move D, Andy Stott, Demdike Stare, Deepchord Presents Echospace, Bitstream, Kaman Leung, Mariel Ito, Pendle Coven, MLZ, Troubleshooter, Ilektro and others Modern Love is part of , the online manifestation of Pelicanneck Records in Manchester, specialising in top quality recordings by top quality artistes (as above - and more)...nuff said! Boomkat Album Review: [Initial copies come with a bonus CD featuring 80 minutes of field recorded treatments made by Modell in Tokyo] ’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 since their last album 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 colour 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 disorientating 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. Highly Recommended. Video composed by Frobbz Related Links: Presents Echospace