Limited to 300 copies in a double gatefold digipak CD. For fans of: Gas, Shuttle 358, Basic Channel, 12k, Moteer, BBC Radiophonic Workshop. From the industrial heartland of the Ukraine, Yuri Lugovskoy remains that rarest of things, a genuinely mysterious and enigmatic figure working in the field of underground electronic composition. Internet searches revealing nothing but a blurred photograph of a cowled, bearded figure prowling woodland. His previous album on Moteer though captured the hearts of the great and good with tastemakers Boomkat calling it "an enormously enjoyable collection of atmospheric, minimalist meditations, all very much evocative of the raw, experimental sound designs of early electronic music" Two years later Yuri is back with a similarly untitled work, concocting an album of exquisitely deconstructed takes rooted in Berlin based dub techno. Stripping the sound to its barest bones, Lugovskoy wrings supreme melancholy and a warm, rhythmically pastoral sound from the most basic of sound sources (some of the tracks being assembled from fragments of samples of old '70's movies and processed beyond recognition through whatever hardware/software Lugovskoy employs). His unusual loops have a hazy, dream like quality often recalling the low-end hum of late night factories. The minimalist drift of Wolfgang Voigt's landmark Gas project is brought to mind but Lugovskoy goes one further and removes most traces of beats from the work, culminating in a sound which channels enthusiastically Basic Channel or the more contemplative moments of the Raster-Noton canon. To complement the brittle stillness of the original compositions, we have asked some of our favourite artists to re-think, re-work and re-construct Yuri's music, encouraging them to add parts and play on top of the original work. The results are nothing less than stunning:- Brave Timbers uses elegiac piano and layered strings to build up a gorgeous wall of Rachels like neo-classical bliss, William Ryan Fritch produces a stunning string concerto recalling Ryuichi Sakamoto while The Humble Bee (The Boats' Craig Tattersall) and Mugwood (Isan's Antony Ryan) both produce perfect heartfelt electronic pieces which retain the isolated feel of the original work, yet take it off in entirely new directions. Further remixes from Fjorne, Strategy, Tokyo Bloodworm, Panoptique Electrical, Insecto and Chessie are no less impressive and for us, represent some of the best examples of electronic music composition around today Record Label: Home Asssembly Style: Independent