Replica is an electronic song cycle based around audio procured from TV ad compilations. These sample-based meditations are as lyrical as they are ecological, featuring re-purposed ghost vocals which serve as narration for Lopatins signature amorphous, ambient passages. Lopatins Juno-60 is still prominent, but Returnal’s placid, synthetic surroundings are accelerated through darker, more unpredictable terrains via Lopatin’s use of samplers, analog filtering, tape-op, piano, plate reverb and sub-bass. The result is a heightened sense of music as part and parcel of an overall sonic terrain.

TRACKLIST

A1 Andro
A2 Power Of Persuasion
A3 Sleep Dealer
A4 Remember
A5 Replica
B1 Nassau
B2 Submersible
B3 Up
B4 Child Soldier
B5 E