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Corin — Lux Aeterna (UIQ)

Naming your sophomore album after a piece by György Ligeti, famously used by Kubrick in his most enduring and exhausting film, is a weight few young producers would attempt to bear. Filipina-Australian composer Corin Ileto freights Lux Aeterna with expectations that she meets and assumptions she largely sidesteps. Inspired by Ligeti’s micropolyphony, Corin shares the composer’s knotty conceptualism, iconoclastic humor and melodic skill. With a background in classical piano and a resume of electronic and soundscape projects, Corin’s music combines sci-fi and classical tropes while introducing club adjacent elements to draw closer parallels between outer and inner space. Clusters of notes bloom, merge and billow outwards creating highly detailed, interwoven soundscapes that contain multitudes and yet seem full of space.

The title track begins as a pure choral piece a la Ligeti. There is a slight delay on the layered voices which gives them a ululating quality as if awestruck before sacred mystery. Ileto introduces strings which calm and gird the choir, lifting their spirits. A swell of organ and we could be seated in the cathedral of a progressively minded musical director and congregation. Then whop, literally. A profane belch of synth disrupts the choir. A struggle ensues before the voices reclaim their ascendency. “miserere” layers Basic Channel wobble and spaced-out percussion over mumbling voices to create a cavernous dub amid which a piano appears, echoing from a distant shaft. The piano resurfaces in “illumina”, lost in swirls of celestial white noise, a circular motif growing in strength as the track progresses. When she introduces club beats into the mix, the percussion provides a crisp, polyrhythmic counterpoint to her pointillistic backgrounds.The contrast between the mechanic and organic runs through Lux Aeterna, the balance continually in flux. Cognizant of their weight and presence, each element is in a constant state of replication and mutation which gives the music a writhing, restless quality. “arx” stomps along like a series of body blows, a disjointed 2-step with whipcracks of synth like malfunctioning strobes scything across bewildered club goers, as stunned by experience as the cathedral choir.

With allusions to the celestial, spiritual and corporeal, Corin Ileto produces thrilling results. Purists may quibble about her use of granular synthesis to produce the sort of effects Ligeti conjured with ink, voice, wood and catgut but that aside Lux Aeterna stands on its own merits.

Andrew Forell

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Zuli - Tany   from: Zuli - All Caps EP (UIQ, 2021)

"Tany" mutates out of Zuli’s classic "Trigger Finger" with basslines and amens sure to devestate dancefloors once again.

‘All Caps’ catches ZULI with his foot on the gas, rebuilding his sound and accelerating the dancefloor pressures heard in his previous work.

high-octane madness polyrhythmic pulp

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Impact: Lanark Artefax

@lanark-artefax’s abstract, idiosyncratic sound design is making an Impact

Tracklist & Q+A: mixm.ag/V9JuQo

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Lanark Artefax’s Glasz

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RIIZE が出演する UIQ のCM 「グッドマイクロバイオームキャンペーン公開✨」篇。

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