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Lusine – A Certain Distance

Electronic/IDM music = Classical music
Rememeber – electronic music is not only dance music. Dance music is just a one part of electronic music.

Similarities between electronic and classical music:

• there is always many details in electronic and classical music. Many shapes, textures and colors – you can remeber them all only listening the song over and over,
• there is always lot of free space left in music for your imagination,
• you must be prepared and educated listener to understand composition, motives, concept, structure, technical methods and features,
• this music is created to be in background of your thoughts. There is nothing odd, but in same moment if you focus your mind on music – you find an ocean with details,
• there are milions of ways how you can express yourself in classical or electronic music,
• it’s not a mainstream music and never will be.

I’m very familiar with classical music for many years, so I know what I’m sayin’ :) Maybe after about thousand years (when on Earth will be Bender and his friends) people will go to opera or large concert hall to listen electronic or IDM music like they are going now to listen classical music ;) One of those classical music artists could be Lusine.

Lusine – A Certain Distance
On September 8th there was released new album “A Certain Distance” from Lusine (Jeff McIlwain). He’s one of my favorite electronic/IDM artists from Ghostly International. I really admire all records from Lusine and I think he can get out the most advanced/balanced sound from Ableton Live.

So, today I bought “A Certain Distance” from Ghostly store in digital format for about 9$. Listened on my 5.1 surround sound system. Mastering and producing of sound is pretty amazing. In few words about my impresions:

• he is now experimenting with voices. Vocoder sounds amazing and vocal slices is produced very detailed,
• more minimalistic, but still very bold,
• great beats, there is no “deja vu feeling” in any of tracks,
• electronic sound feels live,
• some minor influences from “Boards of Canada” (track: Tin Hat), more retro feel of textures,
• pearl of album – track: Gravity – great ambient pad sound, great harmonies and vocal slices – the minimalism it should be.

P.S. Sorry about my english. I’m not a geek specialist in languages, but I found to write in english helpfull (not in local language – latvian) because of significant blog traffic from worldwide.