Lumisokea

Lumisokea, the Berlin-rooted electronic duo of Koenraad Ecker and Andrea Taeggi, build stark and demanding sonic environments from prepared pianos, additional acoustic instruments, and jagged, warped beats that routinely evade standard rhythmic frameworks. Their bass-centric works, shaped by dub traditions, occasionally parallel the cooler abstractions found in Autechre while foregrounding acoustic textures more strongly. Field recordings, tape manipulations, and vintage synthesizers further populate their palette. The pair first appeared in 2011 with the release of Automatons on the Dutch label Eat Concrete, then issued Selva on the same imprint the next year. In early 2014 they delivered Apophenia—their most rhythm-focused recording to that point—through the British experimental techno label Opal Tapes, which simultaneously offered the companion cassette Contrapasso, an ambient and exploratory counterpart. That summer the duo returned to Eat Concrete for the digital EP Eavesdropping on Pianists, built from percussion samples drawn from Noise Machines invented in the 1920s by Russian actor Vladimir Popov. In 2015 they placed the album Mnemosyne on Luke Younger’s Alter label, shifting emphasis away from dense bass layers toward acoustic sources such as gamelan bells and cello together with improvisations captured on analog synthesizers. Early 2016 brought their return to Opal Tapes with the album Transmissions from Revarsavr.