Serial Hodgepodge

Lusine | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 30, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ghostly Int'l
• ASIN: B00064X3LI
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #396,204 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars better than rephlex, May 9, 2005

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Beep Street - See all my reviews

This review is from: Serial Hodgepodge (Audio CD)

Lusine has had several albums, but this is his first for Ghostly. The title is very telling, as Lusine dabbles in different styles throughout the album, such as techno, hip-hop, and ambient. Some of the tracks jump out at you right away, while others gently fade into the background and become the soundtrack to your life. But there are no jarring switches, it is all done with finesse and flow. Lusine knows a thing or two about craftsmanship. Very intricate stuff. You might have heard some of it if you watch "CSI" on TV. The more times you listen to this CD, the more things you notice. Recommended if you like Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Luomo, Prefuse 73, or Sutekh.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant piece of audio alchemy..., December 9, 2004

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Jonathan Gorsky (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Serial Hodgepodge (Audio CD)

If you're interested in a FRESH sound, (and you enjoy ambient/electro-chill-groove) then by all means you must check this out. I saw him with Dabrye in his hometown of Seattle, and was entranced by his elegant beat work and deep atmospherics. His subtle sensibilities are an amazing joy to experience; headphones, or in a club...this stuff is on the edge of an elevated sound. Lusine is breaking new ground here in my opinion, fusing electro-genres into more depths of intelligence and psychedelia of subtle trances which leave the listener at peace chillin in the world of Serial Hodgepodge...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a good next step in lusine's sound. next, please, February 7, 2006

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micron - See all my reviews

This review is from: Serial Hodgepodge (Audio CD)

For Ghostly International, Lusine has produced this effort which combines his recent interests in house and breakbeat with his long standing involvement in experimental electronic music. While albums like Iron City showed his ability to explore a singular-minded noodley ambience within various soundscapes (such as finding music to fit the underbelly of a highly industrialized city), Serial Hodgepodge finds Lusine experimenting with variations in related aesthetics within a singular soundscape-- the dancefloor. There are fantastic house and breaks outtings that fit nicely into any dj set that seeks to shine; there are also some interestingly sinister ambient tracks. However, for all his experimentation in the 4/4 beat pattern, Lusine never goes beyond it to explore as Burn Friedman & Jaki Liebzeit might the less well traversed beat patterns at the fringes of western musical culture. The ambient tracks that have filled his previous albums are now rellegated to filler between dance tunes, and some of the dance tunes spend more time waiting for the next track to begin than proving that they are worth listening to themselves. There is some coherence in the tracklist (langorous opening tune, dance number, dance number, ambient cool down, repeat), but the coherence is too overt. Serial Hodgepodge is fun and more exciting than most IDM artists' efforts at a populist album, but it lacks the nuance Lusine is blessed with having in his previous compositions, and it's simply too long. It would have been much more potent and fresh if it were cut down to a five or six track EP. Let's hope now that Lusine's pop feet are wet, so to speak, that he'll take his new pop aesthetic into less charted territories on his next album.