Lake Haze
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Portuguese artist Lake Haze (Gonçalo Salgado) is a key player in Portuguese musical exports, delivering masterful blends of techno grooves and retro melodies, and released his debut LP on E-Beamz in 2019. The debut album ‘Glitching Dreams’ sees Salgado operating firmly in the classic IDM realm, and collects together eleven new tracks that pay as much homage to early Warp Records sounds.
This second LP is titled Sun Rising On Concrete Landscapes. This record explores further the atmospheric, slightly melancholic timbre to Salgado’s music.
The use of reverb across the LP elucidates a sense of looking back to the past, echoes from a distant memory, expansive and scattered with space age breaks. The title track feels dramatic, starting with melodic loops and percussion building into an untamed electro banger. The sci fi theme develops in a gorgeous soundscape of minimalist synth stabs, punching kicks and creeping acid trills of ‘Liquid Serotonin’. His skills as a producer are clear as he constructs the cavernous ‘Digital Petals’ with reminiscences of classic trance sounds.
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