Isle
by Ando Laj
-
Digital Album
Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Purchasable with gift card -
Subscription
Subscribe now to receive all the new shows Ando Laj creates, including 5 back-catalog releases, delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android. You’ll also get access to subscriber-only exclusives. Learn more.Subscribe Now $3 USD/month or more
1. |
Dog Acid
05:20
|
|||
2. |
Clear
06:20
|
|||
3. |
Spa
04:56
|
|||
4. |
Dous One
03:54
|
about
Diskotopia winds down 2019 with an exciting label debut from Toronto-based electronic producer Ando Laj. Delivering four beguiling compositions of salient world-building sonics, Ando Laj showcases a unique sound here across Isle, a collection of tracks inspired by the magic and unstable moments found within bootleg live audience recordings. Ando Laj seeks to recreate such transient and electrifying arrangements by utilizing unpredictable sound sources and unexpected sequencing. The results present themselves as hypnagogic side-steps that burrow deep into the psyche, left open to interpretation by each individual listener.
Opening with a chalky and broken percussion workout, Dog Acid soon folds itself into a spatial discipline that seems to drift between states of wakefulness. Cirrostratus washes of synths cleanse the raucous nature of Ando Laj's curious drum programming before culminating in a muggy 303-drenched system error.
Emaciated and decaying primal rhythmic blasts of noise kickstart Clear into motion before an out-of-body bassline synth lead earworms itself into the subconscious. Rising like a plateau formed from an underground volcanic eruption, it's not long before the magma-ridden traces previously present return to claim this composition back unto the shifting Earth.
Spa shifts the nature of what's come before by juxtaposing Bristolian dread drums & bass with heady atmospherics into a parallel fray that's intermittently imitated with a series of binary spasms.
Dous One acts as a kind of epilogue - fusing elements breached previously across Isle into a meditative, Y2K-Chicago recalling downtempo moment of reflection and potential edification.
An inspiring collection of Major Force evocative flipped mutant techno with a back-room-of-the-pub attitude; perfect for off-kilter club sets and on-kilter Diskotopia release binges.
Opening with a chalky and broken percussion workout, Dog Acid soon folds itself into a spatial discipline that seems to drift between states of wakefulness. Cirrostratus washes of synths cleanse the raucous nature of Ando Laj's curious drum programming before culminating in a muggy 303-drenched system error.
Emaciated and decaying primal rhythmic blasts of noise kickstart Clear into motion before an out-of-body bassline synth lead earworms itself into the subconscious. Rising like a plateau formed from an underground volcanic eruption, it's not long before the magma-ridden traces previously present return to claim this composition back unto the shifting Earth.
Spa shifts the nature of what's come before by juxtaposing Bristolian dread drums & bass with heady atmospherics into a parallel fray that's intermittently imitated with a series of binary spasms.
Dous One acts as a kind of epilogue - fusing elements breached previously across Isle into a meditative, Y2K-Chicago recalling downtempo moment of reflection and potential edification.
An inspiring collection of Major Force evocative flipped mutant techno with a back-room-of-the-pub attitude; perfect for off-kilter club sets and on-kilter Diskotopia release binges.
credits
released November 29, 2019
Artwork by A Taut Line
Mastered by Nick Barron
Artwork by A Taut Line
Mastered by Nick Barron
license
all rights reserved
tags
about
Ando Laj Seoul, South Korea
A. Lajeunesse
Began February 2011 in Northern Ontario
discography
-
May 2022 -
Jul 2020 -
May 2021 -
Nov 2019 -
Nov 2022 -
Jan 2017 -
Feb 2022 -
Jun 2022 -
Feb 2019 -
Jun 2014