Stream: Trabajar - LTO

The No Pasa Nada EP is a heady cloud of greyscale sound design, ghostly timbres and deep sonics. It is at once challenging and mesmerising, crafted in part from found sound and field recordings, treated and disguised beyond their origins. The result is a production neither fully organic nor mechanic, with a nocturnal miasma and a fierce intellect. The No Pasa Nada name and track titles - common Spanish verbs - are informed by LTO’s backpacking travels through South America, as much a field recording excursion as a cultural tour. pre-order: injazerorecords.bandcamp.com/releases www.facebook.com/ltomusicuk

I've been meaning to post this track from Bristol musician LTO for a few days but have only just really got around to it. There's a lush loose and flexible sound to Trabajar that you can't help but want to move to - it's gorgeously mechanical and yet also feels so alive. There's more than a hint of Autechre and Ricardo Villalobos to this...

Having first rose to attention as part of the Old Apparatus Collective in 2011, LTO is a solo project. Trabajar is taken from LTO's second solo release, the EP No Pasa Nada, which is due on Injazero Records soon. The titles Trabajar and No Pasa Nada are both Spanish verbs and the influence of LTO's journeys across South America is clear not just in the titles, but in the sound and atmosphere of this music. Trabajar is intricately planned and thrillingly alive. Love.