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Lusine, 'Arterial': Blood on the Circuit Board

The Seattle producer's new video gives life to computer architecture, in brutal fashion.
Image: Arterial cover

Like many of his peers on the Ghostly International label, Seattle producer Lusine excels at a certain kind of techno polymorphism—electronica for and by people that know better. Here, a slab of would-be ambience is frankensteined with classic handclaps and the stuttering heart of mutant hip-hop a la Flying Lotus or Daedalus, and this makes good sense. In prior releases, Lusine has threatened to take polymorphism too far, pushing into bland amorphism, but this new track is one of the finer and more focused Lusine tracks I can remember. It's also quite dark: a growling, serrated rendering of molten rave. The track (via XLR8R) is a preview off the producer's forthcoming EP of the same name.

The video, the work of Christophe Thockler, elevates it to intense heights, delivering a Lynchian rendering of electronic architecture in the process of self-destruction. The tight, dark spaces of various circuit boards become canals and conduits for red paint/blood and, soon enough, cook themselves into a bubbling landscape of fried circuitry and melting plastic.