Title: Noise Figure
Artist: Luxus Varta
Label: Shipwrec
Cat Number: #Ship076
Genre: Electro
A1: Building Peaks
A2: Lizardous
B1: Silver Girl
B2: The Resetter
The latest release from Annecy’s finest Luxus Varta, finds him on Dutch label Shipwrec for the first time since 2017’s ‘Aquamarine Puzzle’. The world was a very different place then and, I think it’s fair to say, this release is also a little bit different from Mr Varta’s previous efforts. There’s still an underlying sense of darkness and a feeling that listening to this stuff at any other time except the winter might not be appreciating its true worth. However, the beats certainly feel tougher and the funk less frozen. This is evident from start to finish. ‘Building Peaks’ deploys urgent, asymmetric beats that feel like fully charged whip cracks. ‘Lizardous’ is a slow and sure contrast between a cascading sonic glimmer and an enveloping low-end, with of which coalesce in order to reach a state of controlled euphoria. The pull of ‘Silver Girl’ is in its dissonance. Everything initially feels chaotic and it doesn’t really settle down, but if you’re already buckled in there’s a sense of destiny. And then there’s ‘The Resetter’ which puts a final, slightly more industrial flourish on a release, the direction of which feels like a goth/b-boy sound clash.
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