The guest list reads like a “who’s who” of GLK confederates, with appearances from Mophono, Daedalus, Adrian Younge (the faithful psychedelic attorney), Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, SAMIYAM, Dimlite, Shigeto and Gonjasufi. beat scene, starting with with his original, eponymous mix, through his Low End Theory podcasts, to his EPs ( Death Gate and My Troubled Mind.)Įxamine the track list. You can approach the album as a perfect summation of GLK’s contributions to the L.A. To further complicate the equation, there are equal parts psych-rock, George Martin-esque cinematic strings, glitch, 8-bit, straight up beats and late night-grooves, as well as what I’m sure are dozens of other sounds I won’t discover in the next dozen or so listens. Breakthrough is full of sounds you probably have never heard outside of a GLK mix. Instead, he focuses on “head music” or “third-eye music,” “music for your brain, not for your body.” The most obvious touchstones are his love of Turkish music (his families place of origin), cinematic strings and heavy percussion - but you’re better off trying to count crystals on your buds for as many musical detours as he takes here. The result is one of the trippiest rides you’ve ever heard.īy his own admission, William Benjamin Bensussen isn’t here to make club or party music. The work of an obviously febrile brain, the Los Angeles by way of San Diego beat-head has journeyed down the rabbit hole to find equal parts chaos, and coherence, surreal dreams and down-to-earth grit. The Gaslamp Killer's second studio full-length, Instrumentalepathy, arrived on his own Cuss Records in September of 2016.Following a string of nearly incoherent gibberish, the first comprehensible words on The Gaslamp Killer’s Breakthrough are: “You understand what I’m trying to say?” That sums up his Brainfeeder LP debut pretty well. Later in the year, a collaborative 7" with Mophono appeared on CB Records. In 2015, Bensussen released Live in Los Angeles, a concert recording credited to the 15-piece ensemble the Gaslamp Killer Experience. The following year, he released the double picture disc 12" Break Stuff, which included new material as well as two sides of control tones for DJ software Serato. He also appeared on a split 7" with Computer Jay on the Hit+Run label. In 2013, the Gaslamp Killer collaborated with the Heliocentrics on a 12" EP released by Now-Again Records, as well as a 7" single with Jungle by Night issued by Kindred Spirits. Following 2010's self-released Death Gate EP and a collaborative 7" with Daedelus, he released his first album, Breakthrough, on Brainfeeder in September 2012. As a producer, the Gaslamp Killer made his debut in the late 2000s, releasing a split single with Free the Robots, "The Killer Robots," on Obey Records in 2008 and a self-released EP, My Troubled Mind, in 2009. He also released a series of mix CDs, among them Gaslamp Killers (2007), It's a Rocky Road (2007), I Spit on Your Grave (2008), Hell and the Lake of Fire Are Waiting for You! (2009), and All Killer (2009), the latter a label showcase for the London-based world psychedelia imprint Finders Keepers Records. Upon relocating to Los Angeles, he found a niche for himself amid the city's massive underground party scene and ultimately found a home for himself as a resident DJ at the weekly event Low End Theory, which resulted in a series of club-sponsored podcasts. Associated with Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder Records, he made his production debut in the late 2000s with a series of EPs.īorn William Benjamin Bensussen, he originally comes from San Diego, California, whose downtown Gaslamp District's bar scene inspired him to name himself the Gaslamp Killer in disgust for much of the patronage. He is a longtime associate of Low End Theory, an influential club night dedicated to experimental hip-hop and electronic music, often considered the epicenter of the L.A. The Gaslamp Killer is a Los Angeles-based DJ and producer whose eclectic style ranges from psychedelia and world music to dubstep and left-field hip-hop.
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