Lucien-N-Luciano - Blind Behaviour

I mean it's micro/minimal-house with ZERO stiff/awkward-ness (not that it's automatically a bad thing, I like awkward techno & awkward house too if it can be made to bump in perverseness of it's (teutonic) non-funkiness). Not a single damn second here feels dancefloor unfriendly. 50 minutes pass in no time at all, it's so totally fresh & absorbing & inventive in a subtly-packed way (repeat listens keep on surprising me).

Also, it comes across to my ears (admittedly I'm a bit short of knowledge in this area) as sharing A LOT (improving upon? missing link?) with the *idea* of all that latin-sambaesque techno that seemed to be the preserve of all the post-Mills crowd but which I never quite managed to find a good mix of (The Exhibitionist wasn't really up to the job of showcasing it except in fits & starts). Except where a lot of that got a bit too willing to fire on all drummachine chambers to attempt to mimic those kind of organically-derived-but-relentless rhythms it was taking inspiration from (a bit heavy-handed basically) this has an impossibly deft and light touch, but it's in no way ineffectual or tame. I just wish it had crowd noise so I could call it the "Live @ Liquid Rooms, Tokyo" of microhouse! Maybe I will... in secret ;) I'm kind of astonished this isn't in the "ILM canon" for this sort of thing (Is it? I probably missed the memo). I know people rate Luciano a great deal but I had no idea this was such an complete masterpiece.

I like Sci-Fi Hi-Fi, but it's a bit slow to get going... improves massively once the track numbering hits double figures.

Luciano!

He's got a brand new, tailor-made production studio since about a week. Expect loadsa new ish..

i like the guy - especially some of his 12"s but 'blind behaviour' did nuttin' for me.

LOOOOOOOOOOOO SEEEEEEEEEEEEE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNOOOOOO

'Father' in one of the best things I've heard in years

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new music!

http://www.discogs.com/LucienNLuciano-Cuidad-De-Luz/release/2251839

samples sound prettygood!

this is fucking gorgeous, so glad they got back together!

very tools-y or whatever but i dig it like craaazy

They? It's just Luciano, if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah I'm listening to this right now. Just got up and it was the first thing I wanted to listen to. Very nice.

maybe it was a joke xp?

love the organ on the samples I listened to

listening to the whole thing now. pretty great.

if I worked on a cop show, I'd push to get "behind my soul" on the soundtrack.

last track really reminds me of the last track on achso. not a bad thing.

So this is 79 minutes in length?!?!

nah. it's more like 40mins.

Ok, I read that in a press release, seemed kind of o_0

The drums on the third track really make this for me.