A popular drum 'n' bass force to be reckoned with in the rave days, UFO always had a way with dancefloors. Now he's reinvented himself into an electronic artist outside the realm of drum 'n' bass, and it's a happy move. His new stuff is gorgeous and delicate, but headstrong and purposeful--kind of like Postal Service with the added oomph of a drum 'n' bass vet.
Producing and performing for nearly two decades, UFO! continues to edge forward, staking a position on theoutward perimeter of music. Inertia is something this artist has had little use for in the past. Though widely regarded as one of the US's pioneering drum & bass artists and DJs, UFO! is poised to reinvent himself as a musician yetagain, rising from the miasma of an ever-mutating underground music scene.
Logic Is Lunacy finds UFO! turning even further down a new artistic corner—making him the perfect first artist tosign with the future- gazing label. The album is UFO's most dance floor-ready output to date, and his first venture into the 4/4 format. While retaining his signature love of hard, loud distortion and meticulous sound design, thealbum traces an arc that incorporates a myriad of new forms and styles. From low-end techno to shattered electroballads to hook-laden synth rock, UFO! deconstructs and re-fabricates various genre influences in the forge of hisimagination. Logic Is Lunacy may also be UFO!'s most personally intimate release, featuring the artist in the role of vocalist for the first time. Ribbons of darkness weave through his lyrics, glittering dimly against his tracks' popmelodies with emotional musings on loves and loss reconciled.
UFO!'s world is one where music, painting, graffiti, photography, and DJing are not easily separated. Championingan idiosyncratic form of urban futurism, his work in all forms is defiantly rooted in the industrial shadows of San Francisco bridges and New York high rises, honed by the warrens of London's Tube and the mechanistic biology ofLos Angeles' concrete arteries and veins, while envisioning places where the grid of city blocks gives way to the grid of nanotechnology. UFO!'s art rides these intersections with committed abandon, joyriding through thecrumbling detritus of an industrialized society colonized by data and information—a place where the man is no longer easily distinct from the machine.