LITHOPS - MOUND MAGNET PT. 2 - ELEVATIONS ABOVE SEA LEVEL (LP)

""Elevations above Sea Level" is the second Mound Magnet part from Lithops aka Jan St Werner, 1/2 of duo Mouse on Mars, 1/3 of "Von Südenfed" and 1/2 of Microstoria. "Elevations above Sea Level" gives us aural diagrams of a large, hypermodern cities with futuristic vehicles moving around. The electrical ticking of fluorescent advertising panels, a thwappy airiness of the ventilation system, the rattles of trains and chopped up hums of distant roads, the mechanical groans that maintenance machinery starts up with, rain drumming on the stretched glass roofs of urban malls, the howling groans of motorcycles on city highways. It's not an ambient record by any means, nor is it purely musique concrete. It's rather an acid fulled hallucination of how to detect an idea of the future in the noises that surround us." (label info) Limited to 500 copies.