Untitled by YL Hooi

* Remastered vinyl edition, care of Efficient Space, available here:

https://ylhooi.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-2



AST095:

I really couldn’t be more proud to deliver this, the untitled debut release from Melbourne’s YL Hooi. Ying-Li's work gives subtle nods to various liminal genres: basslines that could have been snatched from 80’s UK, the deepness of dub’s most welcoming sinkholes and a thorough smearing of experimental composition congealing it together as a whole. These elements all combine to make a release that is unlike anything I’ve heard recently and has been on a regular loop since it was first sent to me. Hooi has contributed to various configurations for the last several years, most notably with Tarquin Manek (who aids in production here). Although many of these previous incarnations resulted in similar affects, I can’t help but feel that the disparate influences perfectly converge here in a tape that warrants repeated listens, revealing obscured subtleties with each unspooling.