Gabriel Le Mar - Stripped

Originally released digitally on Iboga in 2014, Stripped is the latest full-length by Gabriel Le Mar.Stripped reveals a veritable jungle of masterful mastodonian beat madness of a type not seen in electronic circles for decades. At once gleefully and respectfully signifying the engaging 90s era of IDM while simultaneously pointing into a far more cybernetic aural future, Stripped is hardly that; it's somewhat more 'streamlined' than Le Mar's early works, but that hardly diminishes its brilliant, complex, and magnetic sound design, where the listener's attention is so engaged one must literally react to the rhythm.Le Mar's rep amongst the post-dance glitterati is long secure, yet one can't ignore the fact that there's a reason he's so admired despite a mere handful of recordings over the past 25+ years. Whether solo or under the guise of Saafi Brothers, Le Mar has the uncanny ability to turn a series of percussive skeins into one immersive harmonic convergence, deftly lacing up an assor