can. not. freakng. wait.

Oh Yes!!!

same here!!!!

oh yes!!!

looking forward.

(:
countdowning...

really...really cool

Can't wait to hear what they'll deliver!

If its even half as good as the Coldest Season it'll be epic...

the nicest guys in dub keep bringing it.
WORD!

The Coldest Season is truly superb, but I wasn't overly impressed with Modell's solo album. Nevertheless I'll be eagerly awaiting this one.

The Coldest Season is truly classic, one of my favorite albums over the past 10 years, I hope this one is as good. The bonus album sounds quite interesting, cant wait to get my hands on this.

The coldest season was/is truly inspirational. These guys are so passionate about what they do and u can hear this in their music.

The coldest season opened up a whole new world of music to me. Can't wait for the new album

very nice it is too... far warmer and more dancefloor than 'Coldest'... really excellent!

love the label

YES

WOW!

listen previews here: http://soundcloud.com/modernlove/sets/deepchord-presents-echospace-liumin

buy quick so you get the double CD disc package. the second disc is 80 minutes of field recording titled Lumina - Reduced. "field recordings" is somewhat of an oxymoron used here since Tokyo is one of the most fascinating masses of concrete, neon, and humanity run amuck. this is some serious "still waters running from the abyss".

gotta get this on wax

Shows how ridiculous reviews are. 3.5 out of 5? For this album? Hahaha

10/5!

yeah, for RA's habit of easily handing out 4 star reviews, this should have been one a 4 and a half.
One of the year's best releases, it's a deep, immersive listen, more and more so every time I listen. The bonus disc is great too. Been obsessed with it and even though it might not be innovative like Coldest Season, I'm digging this one even more.

A better review, coming closer to what the experience is like for me:

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2010/06/deepchord-presents-echospace-liumin/

compare and contrast:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=7455

Love it! And the second CD Liumin - Reduced is a must!

Mine is in the mail, can't wait to hear the bonus disc as well (hopefully). These guys can do no wrong imo...

I'm all over the bonus disc. smokimifyagotim

The tension builds up inside, waiting patiently, I need to listen to this album, after many many hours immersed in The Coldest Season my ears ache for more, thank you Modell thank you Hitchell. This has come at a good time.

where can i get this in the uk ?

This isn't The Coldest Season or even a faint trace of it which I feel is a very good thing, I was happy to hear something new being attempted with this sound and that is the definition of this album, the rating here is way off the mark imho, 5/5 without hesitation.

The review below was spot on: www.thelineofbestfit.com/2010/06/deepchord-presents-echospace-liumin/

Dito!

3 1/2 of rating???..... PFFF, this album is awesome as everything done by DeepChord/Echospace or Modell and Hitchell by their own... I think it deserves more.

this is not The Coldest Season 2.... its a new album. new ideas, new sounds...

and what about the bonus CD of field recordings???... it's awesome as well, maybe more than the first one.

Stunning album. It becomes more rewarding with each listen. Hope to see a vinyl release soon.

I just got it from Boomkat.
Listening now.
Superb album.
Came on RA now to see if the Disc 2 tracks have names.

Doesn't look like it.

They sold out at Juno but you can copies from the source and label directly: http://boomkat.com

4,5/5

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=7599

hey another 3,5

Posting reviews on other releases as a method of justifying your argument for higher ratings on music you love is a waste of time. The suggestion that this release sits on an inherently higher plane and therefore demands higher ratings simply doesn't hold any weight. It's just your opinion. Instead of getting your pants in a knot and trying to belittle the review process, why not just enjoy the music you love and form your own opinions?

It gets so tired and relentlessly underwhelming to read a review and then note a bunch of comments from various board members shitting on the rating and then providing their own - often without any explanation.

Does it really matter what RA thinks? Trust your own judgement people!

'The duo's new work extends and expands the genre. Based around street recordings made in Japan, Liumin's songs weave delicate synthesized loops and faint rhythmic sketches with random chatter, subway rumblings and other natural sonorities.'

Thomas, are you familiar with Monolake's 'Hongkong'?

5/5!

to love dub techno, you gotta be a dub techno fan, that's what i don't like about dub techno.
the only reason i liked listening this album and will listen to it again this summer is because i kinda like dub techno

Here's what covers everything about the record and proves why you made a mistake of rating it 3.5/5. I gave it 9.4/10 here :

http://indiebandwagon.blogspot.com/2010/06/review-deepchord-presents-echospace.html

which solo album? wanna know if i've missed one - there's been a variety of releases, of his own and remixing michael mantra's

i'd like to hear BCN Dub in a club,

Nice review, but I think you overstate the extent to which the kind of electro-acoustic or musique concrete type of work performed by The Hafler Trio etc. 'died out' from the late 1980s. There was a seady stream of labels continuing that type of work through the '90s (most obviously Touch, of course, but some of the A-Muzik material from the likes of Markus Schmickler, turn-of-the-millennium work on Bernhard Guentner's Trente Oiseaux and finally the 'micro-sound' aesthetic of Richard Chartier et al), and I well recall Thomas Brinkmann's 2004 album 'Tokyo' which was based around street recordings made in...Japan.

Much like the new Echospace record, in fact...

love this record. heavy stuff right here

No words to describe this album effectively, 5/5 and a highlight of the year imho thus far. I think they said it best in one of Seattle's beloved newspapers "The first great album of the decade is DeepChord Presents Echospace's Liumin..."
lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2010/06/29/the-art-of-echospace

One of those buy on the spot choices.

great unique vision of dub-music!
like that it is more on the melancholic and experimental side than on the sunny side of dub
modern love is one of the most interesting labels at the moment.

Completely agree that this is very reminiscent of Brinkmann's Tokyo+1, but I would argue this album is less to do with musique concrete than Brinkmann's. I'm not sure how the dub techno/ house beats of previous work by Modell and Hitchell are any less audible here than the past echospace outings. Sounds to me like its all over this release. Brinkmann's record only features one track with heavy techno beats.

To add to WJ Gibson's outstanding start of a list, I would also add labels like Editions Mego, Kranky, Type Records, line, 12k, raster noton, and Miasmah to the list of labels covering the musique concrete/ post-post-industrial disco dance spectrum very well over the past ten or twenty years. And didn't die. It gave birth to many offspring. In It's place has grown up the dronembient, dark ambient, and the rather bloated and ill-defined experimental music scenes with the likes of Sun0)))))), Oren Ambarchi, KTL, Svarte Greiner, Ben Frost, Belong, Earth, Tim Hecker, and Fennesz (to name a smidgeon) carrying the torch.

I guess the point is that it's not so much that industrial music as gone out with a whimper. Rather it splintered beginning in the mid-to-late 80s and throughout the 90s into further explorations of musique concrete in experimental/ambient/drone subgenres on the one hand and pop-oriented industrial music like the rock of Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, and others.

None of this is to say that this isn't a great review or album. Both are stellar, and I'm really thankful for the interesting history lesson for those who think industrial died when skinny puppy broke up or when trent reznor gave up the drugs.

I don't think anything is over stated - underrated would have been a better term. This review didn't outline the scope of a 160 minute experience (a double CD album) or serve any justice to the quality of material you're about to listen to. At least he didn't plaster us with Basic Channel analogies. This grows more perfect with each listen 10/5 if you were to ask me.