Description
Doppler 20:20 – Art Electrique – Compact Disc
London’s Martin Lee-Stephenson is a prolific producer who appears to adopt a separate alias for each new concept. His solo and combo credits, including projects with pop singers, dub dissidents, world-music illuminati, and eccentric vocalists, make for quite a dossier. For those keeping track, Doppler 20:20 is one of Lee-Stephenson’s preferred pseudonyms–meaning only that he’s used the name more than twice since the debut ART ELECTRIQUE.
ART ELECTRIQUE defies easy characterization, but this tends to be a given with Lee-Stephenson’s work. The album, created in part with Dave Milea and Law & Auder label cohort Phil Earle, is best approached as a single, evolving soundscape. Doppler 20:20’s glittering, FX-laden digitalia morph into slippery ambient-techno environments (‘Dada’); unsettling sample collages (‘Cantankerous’); spiky, splintered breakbeat jolts (‘Changing’); and lushly melodic drum-and-bass (‘Sine Gentlemen Please,’ the wraith-riddled ‘Sharp Shame’). Eastern sensibilities and convoluted, dub-styled treatments infuse ‘Bed Spring,’ ‘Diary of a Lost Man,’ ‘Me in Carnation,’ and ‘Seed.’ Lee-Stephenson seems intent on providing a complex and beguiling electronica experience rather than a cobbled-together collection of floor-filler ‘trax.’ ART ELECTRIQUE succeeds, ending with ‘And Now Where,’ a dark, disorienting ambient construct and a question only Lee-Stephenson can answer.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic seal
December Dawn Records
Doppler 20:20 includes: Martin Lee-Stephenson.
Track Listing
1. Furtive Mind
2. Cantankerous
3. Bed Spring
4. Changing
5. Dada
6. Sine Gentlemen Please
7. Seed
8. Pang
9. Diary of a Lost Man
10. Sharp Shame
11. Me in Carnation
12. And Now Where
