Lone - Cluster Dreams EP

Big grins all round Cargo greet the arrival in the camp of Dealmaker, a partnership we’ve been waiting months to make public, and if there’s a better way to announce that fact than with an astounding new Lone micro-opus, we don’t know it. In the summer of 2008 Lone came seemingly out of nowhere with ‘Lemurian’, an album of kaleidoscopic, shimmering and sedative hip hop instrumentals. With it's lovingly crafted textures, sun-stroke melodies and deliciously dope drums, it seemed to encapsulate the sound of forgotten childhood holidays, using faded lounge-esque samples sounding like they came from warped tapes left too long in the sun on a car's dashboard. The incredible response saw praise coming from artists like Kode9, Daedelus, Rustie, and James Holden, and much end of year love with many writers rating the album high in best of year round ups. Since the release of ‘Lemurian’, Lone has been exploring a fresh spaced-out electrofunkdisco angle, one that fans of Flying Lotus, Dâm-Funk, Hudson Mohawke and Sa-Ra are sure to turn on and tune in to. The ‘Cluster Dreams’ EP is a natural progression for Lone whilst stepping up for the dancefloor with possibly the funkiest bassline of the year on the pounding 80s groover 'Fly Fire Rainbow'. Massively staggered drums, inventive analogue synth patterns and washy keys are a mainstay throughout these four exotica-tinged instrumentals, which include an astounding and wonderfully meditative remix of 'Midnight Feast' by Warp’s latest signing, Bibio. Taken from Lone's debut album 'Everything Is Changing Colour', the song is a heart-warming rendition played on the guitar in a style that only Bibio is capable of, rounding out this dizzying release with true artistic perfection.

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