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Libythth

External Linkhttp://soundcloud.com/libythth

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Upside Down Helicopter

'Upside Down Helicopter' is the third full-length...
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Almost A Trillion Dollars

'Almost a Trillion Dollars' is the second...
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Dizzolve a Diamond

'Dizzolve a Diamond' is the first of...
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Statement

Libythth is a complex and bold form of electronic music made from noble, foot-squished grapes grown under the brown sun of Southern California. Its full bodied aroma of raspberry, chalk and toasted human hair with subtle notes of static electricity is sure to smother your olfactory lobes under a dirty horse blanket of unnecessary distortion. Hints of sassy licorice and zoo elephant define as well as obscure its fusty character to the delight of all parts of the face and neck. Finishing with a prolonged and loathsome alkaline aftertaste, Libythth will leave you and all of your clownishly dressed friends buzzing like a neon sign. Libythth is aged in flirtatious oak barrels hidden deep in a lonely storage unit, tended around the clock by large, loud monks and guarded by a pair of tacky concrete lion statues. Please enjoy Libythth responsibly in a Y shaped glass with raw potatoes and hunks of deer meat or a fine aged chicken. Guaranteed to contain no Amen breakbeats, acid basslines or played-out junglist nonsense. Brrrap! ___________________________________________________________ "To declare that Libythth is ahead of its time is to presume that someday, somehow Libythth will become relevant. Libythth is just blasting backwards honks and quacks while firing curved laser beams into an infinite stupid doughnut shaped tunnel. There will never be a place for Libythth in the pantheon of important music or even upon the vast garbage mound that is the Internet. Encompassing nearly twenty years of time better spent on something else, Libythth is a massively fruited but ultimately hopeless pursuit, destined for obscurity, public indifference and financial ruin." -Pitchfork________________________________________________"It’s been quite some time since Los Angeles-based electronic producer Qrqyt Ixoteptek (possibly not the name his parents gave him) last released new material under his Libythth moniker; indeed, after releasing 2000′s ‘Dizzolve A Diamond’ and 2001′s ‘Almost A Trillion Dollars’ on Phthalo, he’s spent much of the next ensuing decade virtually inactive (*EDIT - NOT TRUE!!!). Apparently five years in the making, this third album ‘Upside Down Helicopter’ sees Libythth returning to action, and shows him continuing to ply a distinctly individual, eccentric and furiously beatladen path that sits well outside the established boundaries of the breakcore scene. After emerging with the sampled noise of whirling helicopter blades, opening track ‘YTYTYAXOTYYTN’ certainly accelerates rapidly into the sort of corkscrewing Amen breaks that have become the hallmark of breakcore, but rather than descending into the usual rhythmic warfare, the baffling genre colision of sampled drums, hammering kickdrums, cheesy cheap synths and chugging, rock guitars that follows calls to mind the likes of The Boredoms circa ‘Chocolate Synthesiser’, far more than say, Sickboy or Kid 606. The same certainly applies to ‘Cracknsmackattack’s eccentric collision of mantra-like repetitive drums and strangely Arabic-sounding melodic elements, which suggest strange ‘outsider’ rock more than anything else as jittering, hyperactive rhythms power their way to the surface, as well as ‘Foikydoikys’ descent into cheesy, square-dance style arcade game synths and Casiotone-worthy rhythms. Yes, it’s certainly suitably odd stuff that won’t appeal to everyone, but those with a taste for Libythth’s breakcore ‘outsider’ tendencies are likely to find these ten tracks developing more of an indescribable coherency with each ensuing listen." -Cyclic Defrost

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