Celebrating organic music and spoken word scenes that have surfaced in the city, The Broad will be hosting its debut event “LA Intersections” from 8 to 11 p.m. on Saturday,
Fact Mix 808: LCY
Fact Mix 808: LCY
A moody, melancholic selection programmed by a robot pirate station from the mind of the SZNS7N boss.
Four years ago, Bristol native LCY self-released Mixtape 01, a project that established the producer (then known as LUCY) as a promising club talent operating in the fertile space between dubstep, grime and jungle. With the launch of their SZNS7N label in 2019, LCY’s music began to use the 140BPM zone as a jumping off point to explore a range of styles and moods.
In 2020, LCY began a new chapter as they retired the LUCY moniker with a self-titled EP that sampled their own back catalogue to create highly experimental club tracks utilising stripped-back D&B-inspired rhythms. However, the past year has been LCY’s most fruitful creative period yet. Last December, they took their first steps into a conceptual universe with the audiovisual piece ‘Garden of E10’.
Nima Aghiani and
Sara Bigdeli Shamloo) trilogy of albums with the most stunning release of the set. Constantly in flux without ever feeling frantic,
Placebo is a masterwork of electronic composition, an album that finds bloody, volatile humanity in 9T Antiope’s dust-glistened soundscapes.
On the vocal-heavy “Dose I: Danse Macabre,” 9T Antiope deliver a set of theatrical vignettes, the music sharply jutting between sultry grooves and hollow drones, from song to poem to speech and back. Shamloo shapeshifts from narrator to narrator alongside these musical cuts, delivering melismatic singing, gremlin-like spoken word and more. Throughout “Danse Macabre,” she outlines an extended metaphor between the human existence and that of horses, honing in on shared dreams of abolition and liberty: “We neigh like horses refusing to be tamed / Yet our neighs neither break the rhythm nor the code.”