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1.	Tres 06:47	buy track
2.	Hypnopompic 06:12	buy track
3.	Guld 07:12	buy track
4.	Nio 06:41	buy track
5.	Indrik 05:15	buy track
6.	Jurmo 07:46	buy track
7.	Eroi 06:30	buy track
8.	TGV 07:35	buy track
9.	Guld (Laughing Ears Remix) - Digital Bonus 05:36	buy track

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General Ludd sculpt bizarre auditory mazes built within the fracturing constraints of western dance musics. These tremors ripple from the dear green place of Glasgow, Scotland; beguiling a physical cathartic experience for the dancer disillusioned with the horror and folly of our times.

Over the last few years, the team at 宀 have got to know the Glasgow based duo General Ludd, bringing them to Asia back in 2016. This will be their third record to come out on a Hong Kong based label, and will be their first full length LP to date. Eponymously titled, General Ludd, the 9 track record exemplifies their bold, unconventional approach to dance music production.

Like the club the label is born from, the music here is about imagination and catharsis in a brave new world. Though the album is full of clean and crisp sound design that excrete an aura of the digital era, General Ludd embody a rupture in the technological utopia. This is somehow still very much human music, music for the ecstatic moment, it invites the body to move freely and with abandon. General Ludd build tracks that don’t always hinge on a bass line, the sub-bass frequencies are there but are part of a rich tapestry, woven into a fabric of synths and other-worldly samples and voices.

Perhaps distinct from some of their past work with labels Mr Saturday Night, Rubadub & Ostgut Ton, there is a certain coldness and sparseness in the construction of the music. As with all of the duo’s back catalogue, there is not one form, one fixed genre, the music is alive and constantly shifting. Maybe you can call it post-club dance music, because of the conventions being broken, but there are no de-constructive impulses. It’s not music to fulfill a category, it’s music for moving people in new methods, in the hips, the head and the heart.

The album comes with a re-interpretation of “Guld” by Laughing Ears, an electronic music artist who currently lives in Shanghai. Her music is a knack for blending otherworldly atmospherics with heavy bass-lines that explore space, melody and rhythm to create complex yet tranquil productions to get lost in.

After her debut 12" Vinyl album “Tidal Effects” on Ran Music and EP “Shame” on Functionlab, Last year two releases with international labels Decisions (out of Melbourne) and Chinabot (London) showcasing the shape-shifting artist’s range and command of atmosphere.

While Metamorphosis is driven by ‘fragmented ambient synths carefully woven together with dark footwork-inspired beats’, the subsequent Blue Dusk finds the artist kicking things into higher gear, riding pulsing percussion and buzzing bass with razor-sharp psychedelic sound design, creating a sound that may have been born on the dance floor but has veered superbly off-course into ‘uncharted territories’, which unchanged is the the Dark, Hybrid and Cult-feel mystery.

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released April 8, 2022

Written, Produced and Mixed by General Ludd (Richard McMaster, Tom Marshallsay)
Mastering by Marco Pellegrino at Analog Cut Studio in Berlin
Distributed by One Eyes Witness
Design by Maison C.C. (www.maison-cc.de)
Wordings by Beatrice Wong
Snippets: www.shorturl.at/wIPQ1

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