Review: Basic Soul Unit Lab.our 01
If Stuart Li were a visual artist, we'd all be talking about his draftsmanship—Basic Soul Unit is all about the quality of his lines. His productions develop with sensuous clarity that we can easily visualize; from the introduction's steady accumulation of details to the way he sets about sculpting a narrative once things are in motion, this is the work of someone who's spent a lot of time studying the masters. But nothing gets very far on technical skill alone these days, and Li's sequencing prowess is matched by a sense of sound design that doesn't need to get noisy to be thought-provokingly weird. That subtle experimentalism gives Lab.our 01, the inaugural release on his freshly minted label, its drive—half the pleasure of these three tracks lies in how they're crafted. Read more »
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- 06/20/2013
