By It’s our Bandcamp Pick of the Week, featuring Loidis’s groovy and fluid techno release ONE DAY!
Loidis – ONE DAY
Genre: Microhouse, Dub Techno
Favorite Tracks: “Tell Me,” “Wait & See,” “Dollarama”
Brian Leeds’ wheelhouse spans an impressively wide range. One moment the Philadelphia-based producer is skewing the conventions of house music with esoteric ambience under his principal alias Huerco S. The next, he’s delivering post-rave microhouse melodies. The latter sketches are released under the moniker Loidis, whose output was constrained to a 2018 three-track EP of impeccably-produced minimal dub techno. Now, Loidis is further realized with Leeds’ latest LP ONE DAY: Aquatic, afterhours DJ tools in perpetual forward-stasis.
The beats are tightly compact with clicks coiling the ears, each drenched in misty compression that eases the listener for impending nightfall. Opener “Tell Me” skitters with a ticking, start-stop beat. “Wait & See” is effervescent, with clicky trills underscored by levitating choral pads. “Sugar Snot” is carried by a percussive deep house groove and buoyant arpeggiations, perhaps the funkiest cut on the release. The ping-pongy “Dollarama” is truly spellbinding with wistful chimes melting and sparkling in each ear. On ONE DAY, Leeds goes deep, low, and dark, compelling you to simultaneously dance and listen attentively. You can check out the album on Bandcamp. [Dom Lepore]
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