- Of the Livity Sound roster, Asusu's music feels drawn in the finest lines and palest shades. His Serra EP, released in February on his own Impasse label, offered some new insight into those slender silhouettes. The first track was an angular banger that felt like an update on 2013's "Velez"; the other three were panoramic ambient pieces that sounded like malfunctioning new age records. Water fell, insects flew, and birds sang, but in broken, tape-mangled patterns.
Trephine explores sound design with similar enthusiasm, but this time Asusu's efforts are a bit more ambitious. "Dualism" folds and scrunches similar sounds into stuttering electronics that glow like an old, untuned TV. On "M39," a tannoy announcement bounces inside a cracked glass shell. Asusu's sounds are so fine that they nearly slip past you, but the metallic choral tone of "M39" is quietly spellbinding. "Trephine" is more recognisably Asusu: a rolling, polyrhythmic techno/bass hybrid moulded in the Livity tradition.
TracklistA1 Trephine
B1 Dualism
B2 M39