Galcher Lustwerk

Galcher Lustwerk – Proof (EP) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 10, 2023 · Comments off

Less than a year out from his Ghostly International debut, Information, Cleveland-raised, New York-based producer and DJ Galcher Lustwerk backs it up with Proof. The EP features a handful of new tracks recorded in a similar midwest mindset, alongside an uptempo take on “Another Story,” and AceMoMa’s spin on “Speed.” Proof continues on the concepts from Information — strobe-lit club fatigue, the city at night, transient (dis)engagements and half-truths — presented in tighter and more objective parameters. The rigid facts that follow-up the looser relative data. “Without acoustic drum sounds this time, it’s more mechanical, digital, functional,” says Lustwerk.

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Galcher Lustwerk – Information (Redacted) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Following his 2019 Ghostly International debut, Information, Galcher Lustwerk backed it up with Proof; and now, the Cleveland-raised, New York-based producer opens the confidential files for one last exposé, a collection of instrumentals called Information (Redacted). The album revisits material from both the LP and EP, removing Lustwerk’s vocals from the strobe-lit haze, forgoing the truth in service of the vibe. The facts further obscured but robustly operative, here more instinctive and open to interpretation. These are low key dance productions, some slowed to dubby, hypnotic effect (“Thermonics,” “Left In The Dark”), others set loose in the night with no narrative guide. The instrumental format reveals Lustwerk’s control of tone and mood, his nuanced use of drums, and his clever knack as an arranger. Though his work was always ready for the club, these pieces become less dramatic than their first iterations and opt to be more primed for implementation at the decks, if even just in your living room. Two tracks on the back half are new — “Warming Up” and “Waltz” — the former finds Lustwerk at his loungiest, the latter closes the collection in an ambient organ coda.

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Galcher Lustwerk – 200% Galcher (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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5 years after his infamous 100% Galcher mix. Less than a year later after his debut album for White Material. Galcher Lustwerk reinterprets the album format again with a digital-only 20 track sprawl. Funky, psychedelic, stream of consciousness hip-house tracks + included instrumentals for the DJs.

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Galcher Lustwerk – 100% GALCHER (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 16, 2023 · Comments off

100% GALCHER was by all accounts a game-changer when it landed in 2013 as an hour of original music from a relatively unknown producer ushered in by the beloved mix series Blowing Up The Workshop. Galcher Lustwerk’s signature sound — a smoky stream-of-consciousness baritone shadow-boxing with beats, informed by funk, rap, rhythm, and blues — felt like an epiphany, impossibly hypnotic and complete. Resident Advisor writes, “100% GALCHER laid out a louche, lysergic and resolutely black take on deep house.” Pitchfork remembers the music’s immediate impact: “It’s the sort of gem you felt inclined to pass around” — and by year-end list time, word-of-mouth intensified. It was Resident Advisor and Juno’s mix of the year, and earned a top-ten placement in FACT Magazine’s albums list, as well as Philip Sherburne’s personal rundown for Spin.” Since then, select songs from 100% GALCHER have seen small-run pressings, while the album has lived primarily on SoundCloud and YouTube as a low-key cult legend. The gateway into Lustwerk’s now well-established catalog, known for its reliability as a late-night listen and its prophetic vision for the near future of underground dance music. RA would later name it a mix of the decade, citing its influence and imagination: “Original in every sense — unknown, unheard and unbelievably good.” In late 2022, marking ten years since he first recorded the material, Lustwerk returns to Ghostly International to release 100% GALCHER as a remastered limited-edition double LP.

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