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Levels

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Extralife Simple on the surface, complex underneath. Such a great trip in only 28 minutes. Great album from an excellent label.

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1.	Corridors 01:20	buy track
2.	Device Warbling 03:09	buy track
3.	F.Maps 03:44	buy track
4.	Slo-Forms 03:41	buy track
5.	Latent Information 02:32	buy track
6.	Los Aguaro 03:43	buy track
7.	Gp-17 01:22	buy track
8.	Mysta 03:41	buy track
9.	Village ooc 03:12	buy track
10.	Distant Gen 02:48	buy track

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Recorded with a modest hardware setup in Geneva - one drum machine, a few synths, a sampler, plus effects - the ten miniatures on LEVELS’ debut S/T are nonetheless dense in atmosphere and mood, often immensely beautiful beyond their means. As suggested by the project’s name, each track has the feel of a new level on a video game; a new environment to explore, to feel around for new clues, and ultimately to conquer. Referencing classic anime, movie, and videogame scores, LEVELS’ willfully minimal sound palette is designed to give the listener a cinematic sensation. The sparser and more lo-fi sounds on side A have the listener tentatively exploring futuristic new spaces, wandering hallways of ambient beds and kick drum heartbeats. However, the busier rhythms and crisper melodies of the second side tell of the action that happens next, picking up the pace for keyboard-heavy chases, drum machine action sequences, and some gorgeously redemptive emotional peaks.

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released October 20, 2017

Recorded and produced at Village Suisse Studio in Geneva, Switzerland. Mastered by Felix-Florian Tödtloff at Ætherweight in Berlin. Artwork by Daniel Castrejon.

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