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Lucy - Beelines For Working Bees

ARTIST: Lucy
ALBUM: Beelines For Working Bees

LABEL: Stroboscopic Artefacts
CAT#: SA008
BARCODE: 4025858560021

GENRE: Dance/Electronic
RELEASE: 2011-02-25

DESCRIPTION:
'Beelines For Working Bees' is a 12" that sees four of the most innovative artists in electronic music rethinking and reconfiguring the strands of Lucy's forthcoming album 'Wordplay for Working Bees'. The relationship between the point of origin and the end point is not a prescribed one: the beelines of Tommy Four Seven, James Ruskin, Peter Van Hoesen and Truss return to the hive of Lucy's album taking the most experimental and cross-pollinated paths. SA008 acts as a case in point for techno, melding and fusing genre boundaries to reveal new hybrid sounds. On A1 Tommy Four Seven takes 'Tof' and teases its ethereal whispers into a strong, steely structure for the plumped beats to lie upon. From one of Lucy's most complex structures he creates malevolently broken techno. James Ruskin's A2 takes 'Bein' the album's most 4/4 cut and fortifies it, seasoning with snuffling snaps of multi-layered pads. He refuses to be hemmed in by genre, slipping across borders to create an utterly distinct track. B1 sees 'Lav' taken head-on by Peter Van Hoesen. It's transformed into intelligent prime time material, loaded with iridescence and bristling with dubbed-out sub frequencies. To close, Truss moulds his fearsome bass lines around the obscure and prickly top lines of 'Eon' unleashing an analogue scream. SA008 presents a utopian vision that's puckering at the seams. The artists chose the tracks that they wished to remix and fused their own defined sound identities with that of Stroboscopic Artefacts. In anticipation of Lucy's debut album this is a delicious foretaste of what's to come and a cryptic insight into four of techno's leading minds. Mastered by Artefacts Mastering, Berlin.

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