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- Summary: The six-track release from the Portland, Oregon-based experimental electronic duo of Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile features sounds created by inputting different dialects and accents into auto-language translations software to create a new non-language.
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- Record Label: RVNG Intl.
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Jan 10, 2018Keep close watch on these guys, I think their best record is yet to come out, but for now, Lex, is top shelf and should be in your collection.
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Jan 10, 2018Lex is inspired by lofty philosophical goals, on attempts to 'communicate a world distant enough that it can't be captured or comprehended in the present.' On this front Lex is undoubtedly successful, sounding consistently otherworldly, but still retaining enough humanity to make it effective.
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Jan 10, 2018As esoteric as the use of language translation software might seem, Doran and Carlile work their magic on these dialects and accents.
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Jan 10, 2018Though less memorable than its predecessor, Lex succeeds when it is heard as intended: as a conceptual companion to Reassemblage’s opaque experimentation, an appendix of utopian ideas that adds nuance and provocation to a seductive sound world where East meets West, and breath and circuitry are made one.
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Jan 10, 2018Lex is well-mannered, fun experimentalism with a winning spirit. If it doesn't break any tonal boundaries, it firmly establishes its composers' place at least in sight of the bleeding edge. And it opens the door to all manner of discoveries.
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The WireFeb 23, 2018The closer “World” is the culmination of these trials, in which fragments of sound--runs of keys with the uncanny quality of speech, shadowy static, heavily abstract synthesized choirs--drift in a deeply organic and warm silence. [Feb 2018, p.58]
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