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Loscil: Scott Morgan (various instruments).
Clearly a producer with an unapologetic love for the conceptual, Scott Morgan's second album for Kranky as Loscil takes on an aquatic theme -- each track is named after a submarine. However, not a whole lot has changed in Morgan's approach from his debut. These tracks sound only a little more aqueous than the ones on Triple Point, continuing to carry wide-open spatial qualities, with the odd hint of dub occasionally thrown in for variation (with its lathery suds of dubspace, "Le Plongeur" rivals Rhythm & Sound's best work). The only significant difference is the emphasis on waves of rhythm over thumps and pulses. "Triton" is the most wonderful thing Morgan has produced yet, an elegantly dramatic, filmic composition based on a submerged two-note bass hum, a series of rhythmic noise effects, and what sounds like a sampled and drastically altered orchestral arrangement. The notes are emitted lucidly, but they resemble a string arrangement as heard through some type of mildly muffling filter -- a body of water, perhaps? If the only track on the disc that follows it hadn't been produced in honor of the 118 people who died on the Kursk, a Russian sub, it would've been the perfect closing. Submers tops Morgan's impressive debut and provides further proof that the field of ambient techno continues to have plenty to offer. If Markus Guentner's In Moll was 2001's surrogate Gas record, Submers is the 2002 edition. ~ Andy Kellman Loscil Submers Songs | 1. | Argonaut I |
| 2. | Gymnote |
| 3. | Mute |
| 4. | Nautilus |
| 5. | Diable Marin |
| 6. | Resurgam |
| 7. | Plongeur, Le |
| 8. | Triton |
| 9. | Kursk |
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Submers Music Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)  beauty at great depths and pressures
Scott Morgan's second album is themed around the ocean depths, and features, appropriately, tracks named after submarines.
This is satisfyingly organic, atmospheric, ambient electronica.
The album opens with the light, almost sprightly 'Argonaut 1', and then proceeds to submerge itself deeper into a shadowy world with pulsing, surging tracks like 'Gymnote' and 'Le Plongeur'.
Only 'Diable Marin', which veers perilously close to the shoals of 'Perfecto' style dance music, seems to interrupt an otherwise compelling journey.
Epic closer 'Kursk' is a masterpiece, and almost lifted this review to 5 stars in its own right.
Submitted by greenh (Adelaide, SA, Australia) 
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Purchase Submers CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Loscil Triple Point CD (2001)
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The drummer from Destroyer, a fellow named Scott Morgan, moonlights as Loscil. With Triple Point, it appears he's made a laptop ambient concept record about thermodynamics. Some hints: "Hydrogen," "Discrete Entropy," "Fuel Exergy," "Enthalpy," and "Vapour." Wait -- the record isn't even close to being that boring. (And at least Morgan uses actual pronounceable words as titles for his compositions, rqkght? Rqkght.) Snagging the listener early on with the sublime pulsing of "Hydrogen," Morgan regularly finds a central texture or rhythm and applies as little ornamentation as possible for maximum impact. Throughout the remainder of these 60 minutes, the ...
| | Loscil First Narrows CD (2004)
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Personnel: Tim Loewen (guitar); Nyla Raney (cello); Jason Zumpano (Fender Rhodes piano).
Recording information: 2003.
Scott Morgan's -- aka Loscil -- third full-length is titled for the first gap in the entrance to the Burrard Inlet spanned by the Lion's Gate Bridge into Vancouver, his hometown, from the Pacific Ocean. The title is not an accident, as the notions of gap, time span, and movement in Morgan's new pieces offer a nocturnal view of the transition of fluid inner space. First Narrows also marks a first for Morgan: this is his first collaborative recording with live instruments. Morgan's generated sounds, from varied sources both organic and electronic, both musical and found atmospheres, were custom programmed and processed with the notion of time displacement built in -- the programs were designed as "flawed" so that no two performances of his sonic patches would ever be the same. Morgan then asked Jason Zumpano (Rhodes), Nyla Raney (cello), and Tim Loewen (guitar) ...
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M83: Anthony Gonzalez (vocals, various instruments); Mathieu Denis (bass instrument); Loïc Maurin.
Personnel: Lisa Papineau, Kate Moran, Tony Gonzalez (vocals); Loïc Maurin (drums, electronic drums).
Audio Mixer: Antoine Gaillet.
Recording information: Fee (06/2004).
Before the Dawn Heals Us is M83's follow-up to the 2003 international breakthrough Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. If you're noticing a trend toward drifting album titles, that's deliberate -- M83 mastermind Anthony Gonzalez loves crafting antigravity masterpieces of layered and meandering synthesizers. He's also the principal player on Dawn, with previous collaborator Nicolas Fromageau having moved into solo work. Left to his own devices, Gonzalez has made a more cohesive record than Dead Cities. As nice as they were, that album's synthesized soundscapes tended to drift into a foggy territory between Boards of Canada and Tangerine Dream. Dawn remedies that with the addition of vocals, more consistent beats, and a cinematic pace. "Teen Angst" and "Don't Save Us From the Flames" pin gorgeous melodies to an indie electronic sound ...
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Loscil: Krista Michelle Marshall, Stephen Wood (guitar); Jason Zumpano (Fender Rhodes piano); Josh August Lindstrom (xylophone).
Photographer: Mark Mushet.
Recording as Loscil, the Vancouver musician Scott Morgan has released albums with themes based around subjects as varied as physics and submarines. His fourth full length is mostly concerned with the atmosphere, with titles like "Halcyon," "Mistral," and "Steam." Loscil uses treated acoustic and electric instruments, as well as synthesizers, to create full-sounding, rounded tones, which he punctuates with microscopic static clicks, matching mood to title with pieces like the unsettled "Rorschach" and the ethereal "Zephyr."
The immediately noticeable thing about Loscil's ...
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Longtime DJ Shadow fans tend to display a rabid devotion to his often arcane, decidedly DIY production methods. Now the stuff of legend, Shadow's debut, ENTRODUCING, was famously constructed from nothing more than a sampling drum machine and musical snippets sourced from obscure thrift-store vinyl. His third album, THE OUTSIDER, marks defiantly new territory for this veteran artist. Increasingly less reliant on his trademark sampling techniques, Shadow has stretched out to genres as diverse as Bay Area hyphy, hardcore rock, and left-field dance music. Displaying an impetuous and often restless experimental streak, THE OUTSIDER features a revolving cast of vocalists, rappers, and musicians. Sure to confound musical pundits and genre purists alike, DJ Shadow has created inspired music that is bound to attract a coterie of new fans.
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