Music Review: LodemidiQuail

Beta Boy | March 12, 2010 | 0 Comments

Do the words Boards of Canada, Negativland, and Mr. Bungle mean more than gibberish to you?

If the answer is yes, you should definitely check out LodemidiQuail, an electronica soundscaper with a fourth-dimensional lawnmower.

If the answer is no, what do you have to lose?

I am not a musician.

This may seem weird, coming from a writer that reviews music, but it’s true. This may be my letter of resignation to my editor, since I never divulged this information to him when I applied for the job, but whatever.

The point is, I never picked up a traditional musical instrument and made noise with it that could be construed as music. However, in college I picked up on a class called Introduction to Electronic Music. I thought, hey, I like industrial, trance, and sampling, maybe this is my time to do something cool.

And it was. I did a lot of cool things. The least cool thing I did was make a track that had an actual beat to it. I knew it. My fellow students knew it. My professor definitely knew it. This was because the actual beat is the easiest part of sampling: creating an intricate soundscape setting that moves you without a beat, that’s the tricky part.

LodemidiQuail succeeded where I failed.

In Drone Within the Void Portal, we experience a flavor of sounds that you wouldn’t normally blast out of your car stereo. This music is reserved more for backdrop effect while meditating in a dark room with a candle in front of you while you stare at a blacklit screen covered in your own dandruff.

Maybe that was too much information. Anways…

The point is, LodemidiQuail’s music is not dance music. It is experimental: it is emotion: all that crap that popular artists used to say they were all about. Like a piece of art at MoMA, it’s not there to have a hook or invoke a past feeling: it’s there to create an environment, a little mental biosphere of your own.

Now I’ll be honest, after listening to the whole album a couple times, I had to pop in Boards of Canada to decompress my brain. Maybe that is all LodemidiQuail is really missing in his/her own soundscape: a break for the listener to collect their thoughts before they dive into the next piece.

Song to Pay $1 for at iTunes: Unnecessary, even if they were listed, but I recommend listening to The Fourth Dimension. You can go to his/her site at www.myspace.com/lodemidiquail or check most of his stuff out at his archive tracks.

I give LodemidiQuail 3 out of 5 pulse generators.

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