Since the early '90s, Austrian electronic music legend and maverick CURD DUCA has been sampling, dismantling and reconstructing electronic easy listening and loungey mood music in his own inimitable way, folding it into electronic music, and by the early 2000s he had established a genre entirely his own. Now comes the long-awaited third and final chapter of "WAVES," the new trilogy series he launched after a 20-year silence!!! The culminating work of the series, it offers a psychedelic experience in sound, as if opening the doors of perception. 180g heavyweight vinyl LP, with a CD containing the same content as the LP.
After releasing "Elevator 3," the conclusion of the "Elevator" series, in 2000, there was no word from him at all, so everyone assumed he had retired — then we spotted his name in the lineup for the 2020 Meakusma Festival and were quietly thrilled to learn he was still active. And now, of all things, brand-new releases!!! Making full use of digital and analog synthesizers, virtual analog synths, and modeling algorithms, he samples, cuts and reconstructs all manner of source material into an elegant, beautiful electronic world that only CURD DUCA could create — evolved and deepened to an even higher level. Twenty-nine masterfully meditative tracks in which a more avant-garde aesthetic and organic qualities are fused, right down to microtonal scales. A prescription in sound. Another highly recommended release.
(Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)
After releasing "Elevator 3," the conclusion of the "Elevator" series, in 2000, there was no word from him at all, so everyone assumed he had retired — then we spotted his name in the lineup for the 2020 Meakusma Festival and were quietly thrilled to learn he was still active. And now, of all things, brand-new releases!!! Making full use of digital and analog synthesizers, virtual analog synths, and modeling algorithms, he samples, cuts and reconstructs all manner of source material into an elegant, beautiful electronic world that only CURD DUCA could create — evolved and deepened to an even higher level. Twenty-nine masterfully meditative tracks in which a more avant-garde aesthetic and organic qualities are fused, right down to microtonal scales. A prescription in sound. Another highly recommended release. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)