Gábor Lázár

Gábor Lázár, a Hungarian sound artist, reshapes rhythms drawn from techno together with grime and garage into formations that are intense and hyperkinetic. His 2014 release ILS presented ultra-concentrated bursts of juddering glitches that registered as both stiff and rubbery, whereas Unfold in 2018 and Source in 2020 moved toward greater expressiveness and rhythmic emphasis, rendering them danceable at times. Boundary Object arrived in 2022 as a group of real-time compositions built around nonlinear structures.

Active in various techno and noise endeavors since the mid-2000s, Lázár issued minimal techno under the name Dean Olbricht during the early 2010s and produced sludgy experimental dub as Omne, including a 2012 split EP shared with Ekoplekz. That record appeared on Last Foundation, Lázár’s short-lived label, which also put out his 2013 split cassette with Russell Haswell. The debut album ILS surfaced early in 2014 on Presto!?, the imprint run by Lorenzo Senni. Later the same year The Death of Rave released EP16. Boomkat-affiliated, the label next issued the 2015 collaboration with Mark Fell, The Neurobiology of Moral Decision Making, which proved more hypnotic and rhythmically centered than Lázár’s earlier material. Shelter Press released the solo album Crisis of Representation in 2017. Returning to The Death of Rave, Lázár delivered Unfold in 2018, an album that stood out for its accessibility and groove emphasis. Planet Mu issued Source in 2020, a further exercise in precisely arranged club deconstructions. Boundary Object, a 2022 collection of unedited tracks recorded live through a self-designed compositional interface, followed.