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01. L/F/D/M - Untitled (Opening Scene)
02. L/F/D/M - Drifting Pyramid
03. L/F/D/M - Insect Cylinders
04. L/F/D/M - New X
05. L/F/D/M - Sun Shape
06. L/F/D/M - Book of Five
07. L/F/D/M - Black Shadows
08. L/F/D/M - No Cure
09. L/F/D/M - Tape Tension Pt. 1
10. L/F/D/M - 2040/0305
ARTIST
TITLE
M Is a Shape
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
ELP 008LP ELP 008LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/17/2015

Ecstatic welcomes L/F/D/M to the fold with his debut record M Is a Shape. L/F/D/M is London-based producer Richard Smith. L/F/D/M first emerged in 2013, inaugurating the Optimo Trax series with the Purple Maps EP. In 2014, he teamed up with Factory Floor's Dominic Butler to release two EPs of hardware-driven atonal techno on Powell's Diagonal Records. M Is a Shape bristles with cloudy, industrial, stripped-down acid/techno, landing somewhere between Berghain, the warehouse sound of the late '90s and the caustic spirit of EBM. Richard Smith: "The title comes from a time when I was producing all these collages, abstracting a theme, trying to get it down to the perfect motif, the perfect shape that summed up exactly what I'm trying to get across and then just when I got there, I kinda stepped back and was like; oh it's just a fucking M! The same M that if I had looked at it a month before I would have perhaps only saw the letter and not the shape, that always interested me; the starting point at where you come to an image, one day something can just really catch you off-guard."