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Nuslux
CD-R
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The debut by Roope from Avarus, Pylon and Maniacs Dream. Nuslux plays good-humoured and chilled out electronic minimalism by mostly self-built analogue instruments. On this CD-R you can also hear some violin and the last sounds of a now passed out old Yamaha sampler. The result is a celebration of sound waves, dry pulses, and harsh harmonies. The Main Mission is to try to get (back) near the listeners ear. This CD-R contains the very best 14 short songs of the enthusiastic and productive first sessions in the spring 2007. Edition of 200.

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Wait a minute, let's go back to Lal Lal Lal for a second....there's one more album that I've got to mention, the debut release by the one and only Nuslux. This is the solo work of label CEO and Avarus member Roope Eronen, and he's really hit upon something brutally simple and special with this concept. The instruments are "oscillator, synth & oscillator, ancient sampler, multi effect board & violin." They are "touched by Roope and mostly built by Tomas," and importantly, there are "no overdubs." This all leads me to believe that Mr. Eronen is just kind of setting things in motion and standing back and listening, and the sound bears that out, with a bunch of short tracks that are, for the most part, harsh-but-humorous wind-up machine-drone miniatures. They sound static and unrelenting from far away, but up close they are loose, animate, and teeming with playful activity, and always deeply weird. It's like the deep-immersion approach of Lal Lal Lal comrades The Skaters applied to the tonalities of No Wave and Noise. And every now and then he changes things up with a track like #13, which is very gorgeous hall-of-mirrors-in-a-cathedral wordless hum-and-echo, still tantalisingly brief. Pay attention -- Nuslux just might be a true original from the Next New Weird.

- Larry "Fuzz-O" Dolman / Blastitude