Lid Emba and Bobcrane
We Substitute Radiance
© 2008 Lid Emba and Bobcrane (634479705557)
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A startling blend of irrational electronics, acid asteroid beatz, pointillist structures and depth-charge ambience.
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"The final track clocks in at a staggering nine and half minutes, and is nothing short of 100% pure, tripped out synthetic bliss." – Sea of Tranquility
"A beautiful piece of avant-garde electronica." – ReGen Magazine
"Like spending 40 minutes inside an especially creepy toy shop." – Terrascope
"A realm of broken rhythm, gentle lulls and biting, jagged industrial insanity." – Subba-Cultcha
"Like an electronica orchestra going berserk. Theater of the mind music that keeps you on your toes and is always changing, which is very important in these days of 30 second attention spans." – Heathen Harvest
"Envelopes you in a bizzaro world aesthetic that somehow manages to be dark and disturbing yet reassuring. The epic 9+ minutes closer, 'Flying Undead Overhead,' is a truly gorgeous opus, masterfully expressing the most natural and pure emotions with the most synthetic palette possible." – Ohmpark Atlanta Music Blog*
*Ohmpark rated Radiance one of the Top 15 Atlanta CDs of 2008
"An ominously apocalyptic parade of pieces that may serve well as the winning side's celebratory soundtrack once humanity falls and the machines take over once and for all." – Stomp and Stammer
"Wicked, textural, and disturbing." – MastanMusic
"Rhythm is still very much the order of the day, with much of the album based on a series of complex and bewildering beats upon which a swirling kaleidoscope of electronica is constructed." – Wonderful Wooden Reasons
"Grotesque sonic landscapes of whacked-out electronics anchored by fat beats and trance rhythms, like a hallucinogenic mushroom cloud slowly dissolving in a dark dance club and bathing the dancers in radiation. The final result is beat-laden exotica for the digital age." – the one true dead angel
"Like a strange, art-damaged jam between Tangerine Dream, early 90's Residents, and a dubbed-out electro-King Crimson. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED." – Public Guilt
"Inspired by dub, but rockin' not reggae-ing. On top of this spin a hot bed of electronics that sometimes float along nicely to the rhythms, but at other times collide like floating masses of ice." – Vital Weekly
"Elements of psyche, electro, prog, ambience lace this collaboration from some familiar A-file denizens. All instrumental, very interesting and progressive quantum leaps into the realms of new music, pop, experimental. For fans of post rock, prog, downtempo, Fripp, Eno. Name it." – KZSU Zookeeper Online
Backstory:
Sean Moore, aka Lid Emba, is based in Atlanta, GA, while Ryan Huber, Bobcrane’s auteur, inhabits Bloomington, IN. Sparked by a common association with Stickfigure Records, which released Lid Emba's debut "Reason Isn't Radar" in 2006 and distributes Bobcrane's work, Sean and Ryan began collaborating in early 2007. Despite having different hardware-software setups and being separated by over 500 miles, they managed to construct six tracks of psychotropic headphone food. Megaton mastered by avant guitarist and sound designing luminary James Plotkin, "We Substitute Radiance" coherently balances and blends Lid Emba’s unorthodox swirl of deranged metrics and texture with Bobcrane’s dronescape meets boom box aesthetic, resulting in a hook inflected collection of art damaged and benevolently demented musique electronik.