Title: Ideal Fix
Artist: Luxus Varta
Label: In Abstracto
Cat Number: IA03
Genre: Odd Wave
1: Genesis
2: Pop Scam
3: Body Care
4: Opium Star
5: Cria Cuervos
According to the press release for this record, Luxus Varta is a “mysterious French producer”. Well, there must be something in the air across the Channel, because having just listened to Letherique’s new magnum opus, I’m left wondering is a name, redolent with synthetic sleaze, a prerequisite to make melancholic dark electronica. This is the third, (annual early spring), release on Mr Varta’s label, (see other reviews here and here) and on this release he eschews the more electro leaning stylings he has deployed thus far in favour of more slowed-down cold wave, (at least I think that’s what it is). The five tracks here scream dislocation, dissolution and dystopia, as if it’s a good thing. And who knows, maybe that’s where we’re all heading? ‘Pop Scam’ is my favourite tune here, as it manages to eloquently combine a sense of sonic entropy with an uncertain state of mind. ‘Cria Cuervos’ on the other hand, sound like distilled cold turkey. Not a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination. The shorter the better.
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