{"title":"Lapalux","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"bf032","title":"Lapalux - Some Other Time","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eStuart Howard aka \u003cstrong\u003eLapalux\u003c\/strong\u003e returns with his second EP for \u003cstrong\u003eBrainfeeder\u003c\/strong\u003e, a further, deeper journey into fractured emotion, tape experiments and mutating states of consciousness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e“\u003cstrong\u003eQuartz\u003c\/strong\u003e” is built around a stumbling music box refrain and filtered vocals. “\u003cstrong\u003eJaw Jackin’\u003c\/strong\u003e” is perhaps more propulsive but with no drop-off in surface interference. “\u003cstrong\u003eForgetting and Learning Again\u003c\/strong\u003e” features vocals from the wonderful \u003cstrong\u003eKerry Leatham\u003c\/strong\u003e, showing that Howard, for all the cutting edge sonics, can also fashion a great song. “\u003cstrong\u003eStrangling You With the Cord\u003c\/strong\u003e” hits harder, a post-Dilla swing to the drum programming and dubbed out vocal samples. The EP is rounded out by “\u003cstrong\u003eClose Call\u003c\/strong\u003e”, which twists a strange kind of cosmic soul jazz out of its chopped, squashed and stretched elements.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThere are few electronic producers out there who are more concerned with the minutiae of surface and texture than \u003cstrong\u003eLapalux\u003c\/strong\u003e, and still fewer who understand so well the deep effects that these textures can have upon the listener’s mood. In \u003cstrong\u003eLapalux\u003c\/strong\u003e’s productions nothing is left to chance. 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As singular as a brilliant artist always should be, his instinctive understanding of the atmospheric power of texture grips the ear immediately on listening. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/release\/lapalux\/nostalchic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNostalchic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is his debut album, mission statement, and the climax of many years of studying his craft. The amalgam of words that make the title is aptly, and perhaps knowingly chosen. The album evokes nostalgia without ever sounding nostalgic, and \u003cstrong\u003eHoward\u003c\/strong\u003e may have had his tongue in his chic when he added the second half of the title. The album is his most focused document to date, adding his beloved R\u0026amp;B and soul into elements of house and hip hop, all with the trademark \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/artist\/lapalux\"\u003eLapalux\u003c\/a\u003e finish; infectious, lopsided swing and achingly deep texture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/artist\/lapalux\"\u003eLapalux\u003c\/a\u003e was raised in rural Essex, midway between countryside and town; the classic, isolated hinterland that's produced many a distinctive British voice. There's a yearning sense to the record that it's tempting to relate to the young \u003cstrong\u003eHoward\u003c\/strong\u003e's dreams about what his eventual escape into larger life might be. He certainly had a dream start when a shot-in-the-dark email to electronic hothouse \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.brainfeedersite.com\"\u003eBrainfeeder\u003c\/a\u003e was immediately answered by label head \u003cstrong\u003eFlying Lotus\u003c\/strong\u003e himself, who quickly moved on to sign him. To this day, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/artist\/lapalux\"\u003eLapalux\u003c\/a\u003e remains the only British artist on the Los Angeles based label. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving made fans out of \u003cstrong\u003eDiplo\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSBTRKT\u003c\/strong\u003e, remixed everyone from \u003cstrong\u003eLianne La Havas\u003c\/strong\u003e via \u003cstrong\u003eCrystal Fighters\u003c\/strong\u003e to \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/artist\/bonobo\"\u003eBonobo\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTawiah\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAlunaGeorge\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/artist\/speech-debelle\"\u003eSpeech Debelle\u003c\/a\u003e, as well as supporting \u003cstrong\u003eFlyLo\u003c\/strong\u003e and playing the main stage at Sonar and in Japan with \u003cstrong\u003eClark\u003c\/strong\u003e, it's prime time for \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/artist\/lapalux\"\u003eLapalux\u003c\/a\u003e's debut full length. Happily, it was well worth the wait. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs declared by opener \"Tape Intro\", \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/artist\/lapalux\"\u003eLapalux\u003c\/a\u003e is a keen experimenter with tape; looping and layering sounds via the warm-feeling format provides textures that are haunting, beautiful, fragile, and somehow familiar and alien all at once. These experiments are both purposeful and successful, and their result is dizzyingly good. Add to this his gift for treating a vocal, and the effect is profound. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf many producers use the electronic staples – glitches, fragments and unfamiliar swing – few know how to use them with such intent as \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/artist\/lapalux\"\u003eLapalux\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eHoward\u003c\/strong\u003e adopts these devices only to enhance the emotional force of his music, never simply for their own sake. On single \"Without You\",(which features the brilliant \u003cstrong\u003eKerry Leatham\u003c\/strong\u003e), the rainy-day, heartbreaking blues is made all the more powerful by the slowed-and-sped vocal. Sung straight, it wouldn't have had the sense of shattered, conflicting emotion that it does. This is electronic music at its finest: affecting and haunting in a way no other 'genre' can be. \r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Straight Over My Head\" illustrates \u003cstrong\u003eHoward\u003c\/strong\u003e’s ability to write a brilliant song. From its tentative, melancholic start, a bassline opens up like a sudden, breathtaking vista, the song abruptly driving forward and taking the listener helplessly with it. On \"The Dead Sea\", a squall of jazz trumpets plays over urgent percussion, swirling bass and vocal-like textures to heady effect. \r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/release\/lapalux\/nostalchic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNostalchic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e not only has all the hallmarks of a great album – a sense of cohesive purpose, its own themes, arcs and internal logic – it’s an album that could only have been made in electronic music. \u003cstrong\u003eHoward\u003c\/strong\u003e understands the power and capabilities that are offered by his form, and he’s used them to the full. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ninjatune","offers":[{"title":"Clear Vinyl Repress","offer_id":44934232703135,"sku":"BF037R","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0493\/8563\/5999\/products\/nostalchic-main.jpg?v=1736246475"},{"product_id":"bf061","title":"Lapalux - Ruinism","description":"\u003cp\u003eLapalux releases his third album, “Ruinism”, on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint. His previous LP, “Lustmore” was partially inspired by the concept of hypnagogia, a suspension of consciousness occurring between wakefulness and sleep. Throughout “Ruinism” the British producer takes this exploration further, journeying onward to the more ominous limbo space between life and death. In this liminal space where the finite and infinite intermingle, Lapalux sounds more at home than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch of “Ruinism”’s inspiration was born out of a theatrical score Lapalux (aka Stuart Howard) wrote for the performance art piece “Depart” which was performed in an East London cemetery. The aptly named project served as genesis for a direction wrought with doom and melancholia. “Ruinism” is all sonic wreckage and rubble created using only hardware and real instruments. The sound simultaneously destroys and redeems itself across a tight and formidable forty-eight minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“‘Ruinism’ is a made-up term I use to describe the way in which blended sound palettes and inspirations interact with one another to form this album,” Howard explains. “I would record synths and drum hits and re-sample, re-pitch, twist and blend the sound until it was ‘ruined’ and then salvage it again in an attempt to make something coherent.” \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAmidst the brutal landscape that Lapalux (de)constructs, he makes room for softness and slivers of beauty that, as with most things subtle and delicate, inevitably cut through even the harshest of environments and juxtapose the rigid exterior that characterizes most of the record. For example, ‘Rotted Arp (feat. 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There’s a warm elevation across the female-driven tracks that, as it unfolds, stand in stark contrast to the industrial and often discordant beginning of the record, most noticeable on cuts like the menacing ‘Data Demon’ and chilling opener ‘Reverence’, which was inspired by French Dada artist Frances Picabia’s 1915 painting of the same name.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis pattern of disintegration and recovery is one that reaches far beyond Ruinism; our current world feels unknown, in-flux, and consistently worn away yet we continue to salvage what’s left of it - we find possibility amongst the wreckage and seek relics of hope and coherence in the chaos and somehow manage to emerge on the other side. 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Having made his name with\r\n his \u003cem\u003eMany Faces Out Of Focus\u003c\/em\u003e EP and acclaimed bootlegs and \r\nremixes he returns with a seven track EP of such poise and beauty, one \r\nlisten is enough to know you’re onto something special. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLapalux  bathes your brain in lush textures, surprising and explosive \r\natmospheres set in unencountered, unearthly spaces, all somehow \r\nperfectly set against catchy rolling choruses informed by pop and \r\ncommercial R\u0026amp;B. On the \u003cem\u003eWhen You’re Gone\u003c\/em\u003e EP he channels and refines\r\n his sound and shapes it into hazy, woozy emotion. Whether working with a\r\n singer like Py (on “Moments”), or deconstructing found samples and his \r\nown voice, Howard stretches, bends and warps sound to make soul – not \r\nplastic posturing but real emotion made of synthetic sound. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2012 is sure to be Lapalux’s break-through year. As well as his \r\nforthcoming releases for Brainfeeder, Howard is increasingly in demand \r\nas a remix artist (Fink, Mirrors, Bonobo, TEED Speech Debelle). XLR8R \r\nhave just included 2 Lapalux tracks in their top 100 of the year. 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As a result, \u003cem\u003eLustmore\u003c\/em\u003e feels like a record as compulsively inspired and meticulously crafted as you’re likely to hear in 2015.\r\n \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLustmore\u003c\/em\u003e is loosely based on the experience of hypnogogia, a transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. Listeners familiar with his 2011 debut, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/release\/lapalux\/nostalchic\"\u003eNostalchic\u003c\/a\u003e, will know that Stuart Howard’s woozy, infectious rhythms, enveloping textures and unfamiliarly familiar melodies conjure that territory perfectly.\r\n \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/lapalux#.VMi5XmSsUhA\"\u003eLapalux\u003c\/a\u003e attracted the direct attention of Brainfeeder label owner and electronic music icon \u003cstrong\u003eFlying Lotus\u003c\/strong\u003e in 2010, and was quickly snapped up by the imprint. Acclaimed early EPs were followed by a number of remixes including \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/bonobo\"\u003eBonobo\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/andreya-triana\"\u003eAndreya Triana\u003c\/a\u003e, Lianne La Havas amongst others, before his debut album \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/release\/lapalux\/nostalchic\"\u003eNostalchic\u003c\/a\u003e arrived in 2011. On its release Mojo asserted that: \u003cem\u003e“\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/lapalux#.VMi5XmSsUhA\"\u003eLapalux\u003c\/a\u003e has joined the ranks of contemporary electronica's finest, like \u003cstrong\u003eFlyLo\u003c\/strong\u003e himself.”\u003c\/em\u003e The album was a high watermark, and a statement of intent by a young producer who was pushing electronic music forward.\r\n \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLustmore\u003c\/em\u003e sees the young producer take another stride forward. 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While 2017’s “Ruinism” was about sonic wreckage and deconstruction, with “Amnioverse”, Howard took a different approach, basing each track around a snippet of spoken word from “friends, lovers, and ex partners”, and building the music around it. 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