Description
Following ‘Containing A Thousand’ and the ‘Mountain Divide’ EP, their pair of sublime releases for the label, Lakker now deliver their debut album ‘Tundra’, perfectly in line with R&S’s techno heritage whilst also taking in influence and inspiration from the varied likes of No U-Turn Records, the choral music of Arvo Part, Merzbow, early Human League, and raw ethnic music. The crowning achievement of their decade long musical career, ‘Tundra’ sees them once again blurring the lines between the ‘real’, organic / natural and the synthesised, virtual and ‘artificial’ the album contains field recordings from motorway tunnels in Japan, church bells from Schöneberg, a female choir from Dublin and Inuit throat singers. ‘Tundra’ is a titanic album of diverse and intense soundscapes that demands exploration by not only Aphex Twin obsessives, but also fans of the likes of Sunn o))).
