YL Hooi - Untitled OUT NOW @ bit.ly/YLHooiUntitled

Initially conceived as a short-run cassette for Altered States Tapes, YL Hooi’s nameless collection of textural apparitions oscillate between icy DIY minimalism, FX-drenched atmospherics and nang chamber dub. A ghost-like transmission, Hooi's voice serves to anchor an array of sonic abstractions and impressionistic melodic motifs as a sense of purgatorial ambience dominates throughout. Co-produced with alleged fellow Kallista Kult member Tarquin Manek (LST, M. Quake), Untitled’s ultimate sensation is its halfway state, as if caught between worlds.

The album's final form speaks of its origins, recorded intermittently over a two year period (2017-2019). The extended time passage seeps into the song structures, spiralling and mutating from the same centre - the elegiac pulse of opener 'Title' presages the hymnal lilt of 'Straight Thru', before birthing the inverted bossa nova of 'W/O Love'. The result is a constantly shifting tableaux of shared liminal spaces. These songs seemingly emerge in plumes of smoke, magician's tricks conjured from the ether. It's a vision that ossifies at Untitled's midpoint with a cover of Love Joys' 'Stranger', the lovers rock original morphed into the transportive intimacy of Hooi's own hazy inner space, a totem of the LP’s amorphous and ultimately sensuous qualities.

The sound from both down under and way out there in subspace, Untitled is an inspired masterstroke of experimental mystics. This 2021 Efficient Space edition is remastered and robed in new artwork that honours the Melbourne-based earth dragon’s Chinese and Russian heritage.

YL Hooi - Prince S Version (ES017) OUT NOW

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Live performances of electronic music combined with storytelling and freaky dance music accents. 

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Past events:
02 Aug 2024 → 37 Megahercai Šiferio, Aritmija Festival
29 Jun 2024 → Evidence w/Symphony Orchestra, Valkininkai
6 Jun 2024 → Parkas Peronas, Vilnius
18 May 2024 → Document Shredder, Europe Museum Night
12 Apr 2024 → Bald & Grey, Alisa, Sodas2123
24 Jan 2024 → Missing Painting, Pamenkalnio gallery, Vilnius

2023

8 Dec 2023 → Draugų vardai, Vilnius
4 Nov 2023 → CSA Wild Cats Live, Gallery 1986, Vilnius
4 Aug 2023 → Aritmija Festival 2023, Merkinė
7 Jul 2023 → Sostinės Saldainiai, Tema, Klaipėda
3 June 2023 → Aritmija intro, Merkinė
12 May 2023 → Sostinės saldainiai, OSH, Vilnius
15 Apr 2023 → Picknick, Sodas2123
6 Jan 2023 → Free Spaces, Ideas Block

2022

29 Dec 2022 → CSA: Furniture Repositioning Company, Sodas 2123
22 Sep 2022 → Tree Duo, Studium P 
9 Sep 2022 → Eyes, apples and exhibitions, Open sodas | VGS"22
11 Aug 2022 → Yeagl, Feeling Glass, Sodas 2123
6 Aug 2022 → Festival Aritmija
15 Jul 2022 → Yaga gathering 2022
8 Jul 2022 → CSA presents Yeagl, Sostinės saldainiai, Tema
2 July 2022 → How loud does the lynx purr?
1 Apr 2022 → Public Relations, Yeagl, Empty Brain Resort

2021

16 Dec 2021 → Average accountant, Vilnius
20 Oct 2021 → Performing the Office, CFoCS
30 Jul 2021 → Festival Aritmija, Lithuania
02 Jul 2021 → Festival Upės, Lithuania
21 May - 12 Jun 2021 → The Great Exhibition, Vilnius

2020

17 Oct 2020 → Small Talk, Pamella, Vilnius
05 Sep 2020 → How Fast Lynx Can Go, Secret Location
02 Sep 2020 → Mammoth Moustache, Fantomas
08 Aug 2020 → Yaga Gathering: Absurdistan
25 Jun 2020 → Working After Hours, Empty Brain Resort
15 Mar 2020 → Diagnosis, Palanga Street Radio
20 Feb 2020 → Noise is color in silence, Empty Brain Resort
31 Jan 2020 → Čingis, Vilnius

2019

31 Dec 2019 → Primitive Breakfast, Vilnius
28 Dec 2019 → @baramadeus, Vilnius
13 Dec 2019 Henge → Empty Brain Resort, Vilnius
6 Dec 2019 → Alisa saugok galvą, Unofficial: Jamaika
22 Nov 2019 Falling → Art Printing House, Vilnius
10 Nov 2019 Damage Done → Kablys, Vilnius
1 Nov 2019 Rolling Eyes → Pamella, Vilnius
28 Sep 2019 TreJazz → TheGreatTit, Vilnius
13 Sep 2019 → Twisted autumn, Klaipėda
12 Sep 2019 Octopus Oposumus Vol.2 → Tema, Klaipėda
12 Sep 2019 Octopus Oposumus → Vaga, Klaipėda
31 Sep 2019 Car accident → TheGreatTit, Vilnius
17 Aug 2019 Witchcraft → YagaGathering, Lithuania
10 Aug 2019 → Landing, Trakų Vokė
21 Jul 2019 → BrailleSatellite'19, Lithuania
20 Jul 2019 → BrailleSatellite'19, Lithuania
29 Jun 2019 Cleaning → TheGreatTit, Vilnius
13 Jun 2019 Back to Friendship → Vaga, Vilnius
9 May 2019 Blackout Pigs → KeuleRuke, Vilnius
27 Apr 2019 Pluto Hot Dog → Pluto Not Home, Vilnius
25 Apr 2019 Blackout Burgers → Elektrit, Vilnius
17 Mar 2019 Advanced Electronics → Pavilijonas, Vilnius
15 Feb 2019 The Blackout Tit → TheGreatTit, Vilnius