Erik Luebs (formerly Magical Mistakes) has kept up with his Cycle project, and the results have been solid — I’m a particular fan of Cycle 2.4 / April — but have also kind of just slipped by the ol’ blogging schedule. Let’s change that with this installment, focused on the song “Wavering.” Luebs finds a…
— Erik Luebs shared the latest installment of his Cycle series, the next two tracks representing for the month of May. Previous entries have coaxed words like “woozy” out of me in the past few months, but opener “Concrete Shimmer” takes that haze and adds a real sense of sweltering joy to it. It builds…
Tokyo-based producer welcomes in Spring…well, early Spring, but who’s keeping tabs that closely…with a new cycles of songs to get listeners moving. Like previous releases from him, the two songs on Cycle 1.3 | March match rumbling beats up with more uneasy details. That’s most present on opener “Mirror Room,” a sweltering number marked by…
Tokyo-based electronic producer Erik Luebs kicked in the new year with a dizzying two-song set built for the dancefloor. Cycle 1 | January finds Luebs laying down something quicker paced than other recent tracks from him, which in 2017 tended to be a bit more shadowy and cerebral. Yet something like “Pressed” just zips ahead,…
Osaka-based producer Erik Luebs shared a new song earlier today called “In Ruins,” and it builds on the darker sound he explored earlier this year on Wasteland. “In Ruins” rumbles, however, the song’s most lingering detailing being the uneasy bass purr rippling its way across the song. It lends the song a menacing atmosphere, but…