Retrace, by Lusine

Retrace

by Lusine

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minimusnoah This is so fun and textured i love itt Favorite track: Retrace.

veryvery Precise and punchy, with a nice squeak! Favorite track: Not Alone (feat. Jenn Champion).

filter_theory Lusine shows that techno can be restrained and even delicate, and still give you a good time. Feel free to dance, but don't scare away the beat. Favorite track: Not Alone (feat. Jenn Champion).

brianscissors Every song on this ep is exceptional.

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1.	Not Alone (feat. Jenn Champion) 04:40	buy track
2.	Turn Back 05:01	buy track
3.	Step On (feat. CIFIKA) 04:57	buy track
4.	Retrace 04:15	buy track

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Repetition is learning. Retrace, the new EP from Jeff McIlwain aka Lusine, moves along this line of thought, reflecting the Texas-raised/Seattle-based producer’s recurrent, iteration-embracing approach to music-making and living. Following 2017 full-length Sensorimotor, which explored the body’s instinct versus the brain’s intent, this introverted 4-tracker finds McIlwain just as kinetically-curious. Balancing focused programming with washy, less concrete sonics, Retrace plays with the unexpected by drawing from slight variations on the same idea.

Sequenced into his trademark mix of polyrhythmic synths, processed vocals, and organic instrumentation is the more prominent use of a looper. The technique lends each composition an uncanny kind of multiplicity. Opener “Not Alone” repeats and stretches vocal phrasings from Hardly Art-signed American singer-songwriter Jenn Champion, building onto itself until a climactic, near-duet reset. South Korean musician Yousun Cho aka CIFIKA brings a fluttering of bilingual directives to “Step On,” a buoyant exercise in electronic pop. The title track embodies the whole, allowing a single synth pattern to morph, regenerate, and bloom before returning to its original form.

“You can't ignore the steps that it took to get where you are now,” says McIlwain. Retrace is a fluid line between recursive past and proof of the present. Another in a series of consistently engaging pivots for one of the more diverse experimental electronic discographies of the past two decades.

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released July 12, 2019

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Lusine Seattle, Washington

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Retrace Remixes

Mar 2021
Retrace

Jul 2019
Sensorimotor Remixes

Sep 2017
Sensorimotor

Mar 2017
Arterial Reworks

Apr 2015
Arterial

Aug 2014
Lucky

Jun 2013
The Waiting Room

Feb 2013
A Certain Distance

Sep 2009

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