Late Bush - Fluxstrata (Vlek) [Experimental]

Hailing from Brussels, Pierre Dozin has been around the music scene for a couple of decades now, involved in everything from scoring films and soundtracking pavilions at art events to melting minds and speakers with drum and bass bangers. Late Bush is his latest project, and refreshingly, it doesn't sound like any of those things, or much else for that matter.

The appropriately named "Fluxstrata" glitches into life before the sounds of cello sweep the initially subtle electronic augmentation towards the synthesised - apparently AI-cloned female voice, that sounds like our near-robotic future. The classy strings then call for back-up and build the baroque drama ready for the full-on electronic assault that announces itself with some nineties-nodding trance synth stabs as the voice and the sound design flicker, blip and generally malfunction.

Experimental intentions laid bare, the track suddenly dissolves into a nineties trance breakdown that gradually gets devoured by the return of our future android overlord and her machine noise onslaught that takes no prisoners on its journey to an unpredictable, experimental music future before dissolving into initially choppy, then graceful neoclassical waters. This is a sonic ride and half, and incredibly, considering the sound design in this track, he can do it live as well. If you're in Brussels this Friday then you know where to go.

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