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Inventive is a gross understatement.

Posted 21st March 2011, 10:50am in First On, by Jamie Milton


Very few music genres surpass the seasons, allowing every music listener to enjoy it regardless of the stormy clouds or setting sun. Electronic music is an exception: electronic music Lapalux might associate himself with, in particular. Stuart Howard offers that all-encompassing sound. Listen to any of his songs and you prepare yourself to be plummeted into something altogether new, almost unheard of. Inventive is a gross understatement.

Lapalux’s music is forever-shifting, turning its head towards new territory before it even settles into its current state; like other experimental electronic music, it seeps in and out of pitches, tempos in the most unpredictable fashion possible. Less concerned with a streamlined structure, more fussed with offering something unique, Howard is the kind of artist we ought to be referencing in a few years’ time as something of a game-changer.

But lack of predictability isn’t where the appeal lies. It’s the art of surprise. There’s a difference between the two: One frustrates the listener, the latter is more often welcomed. Howard channels hip-hop, guitar music, rich synthetics into tiny, concentrated fragments of sound, unleashed at undetermined moments within a song. It’s not a scatterbrained mess, though; more often than not, Lapalux’s songs have a coherent, focused atmosphere, a backdrop of sorts for all the hundreds of samples, tempo shifts to play around in. The results tend to be startling.

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