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Light Years Away EP

by Eddie Merced

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Light Years Away 05:59
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Love 09:39
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Nemesis 08:51
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Vulcan 07:44
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Fresh from releases on labels like MB Elektronics and Elektronik Zoo, Eddie Merced is back on his own R4808n with Light Years Away. The four-track EP originally came out on the late Eddie Watson's Snail Juice label out of Detroit in 2017, when Merced was emerging as a gifted voice in the realm of deep techno. Newly mastered by fabled engineer Dietrich Schoenemann, Light Years Away EP features Merced's distinctive style of meditative club music in full effect. The title track opens up in a mesmerising bloom of sustained strings and lingering piano chords charged with a sense of mystery - a mood which has gone on to become a trademark feature of Merceds releases. As much an atmospheric composition as a 4/4 workout, its widescreen techno at its finest. Love locks into an arrangement more squarely focused on a deep-diving rhythm section, but as ever Merced knows how to weave a melodic narrative around his beats. Nemesis meanwhile revels in the interplay between sky-scraping arps and endorphin-baiting drum machine flare-ups before Vulcan cools the mood down with a sundown cut which tips towards the house end of Merced's sound. It's an exercise in machine soul at its finest, and a compelling look back at an earlier release from an artist continuing to forge new paths in this corner of the US house and techno scene.

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released November 17, 2023

Mastering by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete Mastering
Artwork by Anselm Dästner

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Electronic music has long been used as a medium for escapism, whether that’s the mindful release of the dancefloor or the imagined vistas of outer space. Eddie Merced distils both these qualities into his craft, using the foundational structures of deep techno and house as a carrier for his expansive, star-gazing productions. ... more

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