Epstein - Sealess Sea

Epstein is the work of Roberto Carlos Lange, sometime
collaborator with Scott Herren (Prefuse 73, Savath &
Savalas).

‘Sealess Sea’ is the sound of the world. It’s like Epstein’s
MPC sampler is strung up on every telephone wire, duct
taped to every bus stop, hidden in every mailbox and wire-
tapped to every telephone in an 800 block radius of his
Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment.

It’s a gushing, forward-surge into the mics and sampler.
And what comes out? Bass, beats - soundscape dance
jams. It’s noise-influenced but structurally tight - a slow
wash of drones and percussion morphing into hot, humid,
end-of-summer blockparty music.

Over the course of 17 tracks and 37.7 minutes, ‘Sealess
Sea’ is a beachy landscape of summer sound. The key
word here is, of course, sea. This new full-length is
Lange’s dissertation on ideas of swimming and drowning,
of awesomely weird sea animals and full psychic
immersion. It’s a record that feels like a thing born from
water, a warbling undersea journey from tropical surface
to sun-filtered depths. (Imagine an octopus’s garden party,
only with DJs instead of Beatles.)

These are collages (Lange likens Epstein’s music to graffiti,
a direct mind-to-mics recording experience) where a whole
prismatic spectrum of sound comes through your
speakers, a colourful bouillabaisse of influences, samples
rising up out of the broth, surprising drum breaks, and
hyper-visual, gently blown-out noise asides.

Limited edition of 500 copies on LP.

Tracklisting:

1. Foam On Top
2. Seashells And Starfish
3. Current Stream
4. And Octopus Tongue
5. Jellyfish
6. Cuttlefish
7. Crabs Walk
8. Reef
9. Bubble Vehicle
10. Floating Seaweed
11. Old Time Stars
12. Snail Strut
13. Glowfish
14. Nessy
15. Flying Fish Don’t Forget
16. Hairless Catfish
17. Orange In The Ocean

Be the first to review this record. Best reviewer each month gets £10 off their next order!