Title: Super Filter
Artist: Luxus Varta
Label: In Abstracto
Cat Number: IA05
Genre: Electro
1: Shadow Play
2: Heavy Cream
3: Easy Listening
4: Tragic Fit
Monsewer Varta’s music isn’t the easiest to categorise, and I guess he probably likes it that way. Electro is just a sobriquet because although it feels like that, it’s so much more. ‘Shadow Play’ for example, relies on break beats to propel it through the thick, dark water that infuses the sonic underpass, but it feels like a reinterpretation of a Sisters Of Mercy record played through the apex of a Naum Gabo sculpture. ‘Heavy Cream’, the title alone feels radioactive, breathes like a Geiger Counter draped in menacing black underwear. Now when I think of easy listening, I think of Val Doonican and Perry Como. However, this eponymously titled track sounds like the accompaniment to a Vampire getting up for a midnight stroll with only one thing on its mind. ‘Tragic Fit’ is possibly the most conventional electro piece on the release, but it feels like it was composed by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, put in a centrifuge and then passed on to John Barry to see if he “could do something with it”. It’s possibly the best track on this release, but it’s all good. Just make sure you’re in the mood and it’s Hallowe’en.
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