Notes

As Saturn conjuncts Neptune at the very first degree of the zodiac, this ancient ghost of the Eora electronic underworld returns.  In the 2000s and 2010s, his FBi Radio show Liquid Electric championed emerging local electronic acts working in heretofore undiscovered genres, informing his sprawling, shapeshifting debut. Shape Change Black Alert draws deep from his cavernous archives, presenting relics of lost collaborations as glimmers of refracted hope. In this distant past, he’d shared stages with Seekae and Rufus Du Sol. He’s remixed artists like Collarbones and Cherry Rype. Can you hear these echoes in his new release? Shape Change Black Alert meanders through these clubland ruins. Is it IDM you can actually dance to? Dancefloor wreckers for DJs who have the gall to play the game on hard-mode? Or is it just the long shadow of a man with a laptop? Recorded in exile, the album is willfully unmoored electronica with a backbone of UK bass, slithering between prismatic joy and occult claustrophobia. The lead single ‘Sometimes (club)’ is a mutated footwork ballad that once served as the destructive closing track to his genre-obliterating live shows. Loopsnake remains lost under a desert sky. Some say they’ve seen him counting jewels for the Sultan, or wandering the glittering dunes with nothing but his headphones and the clothes on his back. But they say he’s doing well. He wishes, no doubt, that he released this album years ago. But as they say, the second best time is now. LOOPSNAKE - SHAPE CHANGE BLACK ALERT - OUT EVERYWHERE Feb 20. Contact. Email - [email protected] - @loopsnake. Astral - light frankincense incense, then draw his sigil in silver ink and burn it on the new moon. RIYL: Machinedrum, Jamie XX, Four Tet, Objekt, Oneohtrix Point Never