IDENTITY CRISIS
Absolute artistic fulfillment can only come to those who WANT to be inscrutable and anonymous in a commodity culture; that is, they don't give a fuck if YOU know who THEY are. Unfortunately, I'm not that enlightened... So, for the sadly obligatory bio, go here .
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DIGITAL GLUT
We Substitute Radiance
Lid Emba's collaboration with Bobcrane , co-released by Stickfigure Records and Inam Records, April 2008. Six tracks of art-damaged headphone food, mastered immaculate by James Plotkin . Available @ Stickfigure Distro/Mailorder , CD Baby , Public Guilt , I-Tunes , PayPlay.fm , Amazon, Napster, etc.
the good bits:
"Lid Emba brings us another trip into whatever psychedelic asylum he escaped from (or didn't, it's debatable)... wicked, textural, and disturbing." – MastanMusic
"Grotesque sonic landscapes of whacked-out electronics anchored by fat beats and trance rhythms, like a hallucinogenic mushroom cloud slowly dissolving in a dark dance club and bathing the dancers in radiation. Tripped-out sound is the order of the day. The final result is beat-laden exotica for the digital age, combining elements of drone, ambient, electronic, and psych music into a heavily layered tapestry of otherworldly sound, although there are passages where the beats die away and the sonic effluvia mutates into cosmic drift." – the one true dead angel
"Wow! Two awesome and ultra-underground musicians team up for a mail/internet collaboration. The result sounds like neither project, but like a strange, art-damaged jam between Tangerine Dream, early 90's Residents, and a dubbed-out electro-King Crimson. Heavy guitars, fractured beats, pulsing bass and massive amounts of knob-twiddling all collide for an amazing psychedelic journey to a better place." – Public Guilt
"Loud, not too fast beats, inspired by dub, but rockin not reggae-ing. On top of this spin a hot bed of electronics that sometimes float along nicely to the rhythms, but at other times collide like floating masses of ice. Nice one indeed." – Vital Weekly
"Elements of psyche, electro, prog, ambience lace this collaboration from some familiar A-file denizens. All instrumental, very interesting and progressive quantum leaps into the realms of new music, pop, experimental. For fans of post rock, prog, downtempo, Fripp, Eno. Name it." – KZSU Zookeeper Online
Reason Isn't Radar
Lid Emba's debut CD, released 5/2006 by Stickfigure Records. Obsessive compulsive disorder in stereo. Available @ Stickfigure Distro , CD Baby , Public Guilt , PayPlay.fm , I-Tunes , Emusic , Rhapsody , etc.
second opinions
"Your music includes many shared affinities... digging it all!" – Michael Diekmann, Ike Yard
"... a twitchy, glitchy, fun and funky exploration of the outer edges of beat driven sounds. Think Autechre with a smile on it's face and a song in it's heart." – Wonderful Wooden Reasons
"The grungy raw sound points to the use of traditional, non-sophisticated equipment for processing and marshalling; yet the glitch noise indicates complicated computer generated music... the intelligent use of technology and equipment rather than sampling makes this album uniquely styled, away from most of its contemporaries... a great effort to a unique debut." – The Plastic Ashtray
"Lid Emba plays a sprawling beast of a set, sometimes jarring unsettling jittery chaotic, often punchy and groovish... really great." – Eyedrum (show description)
"Noisy and dysfunctional psychedelia." – Creative Loafing
"On the experimental side, yet structured and relaxed. Loops and sounds that get close to prog rock." – KZSU Zookeeper Online
"An electronic, progressive, ambient project with a chaotic energy." – Intuitive Music
"(Radar) is such a fun album to listen to because there's something new and crazy every other second... the more organic approach taken to a style usually embodied by synthetics makes the album so interesting... really cool ambient, noise, experimental electronic stuff." – Ohmpark Atlanta Music Blog