Soup Lips - Kintsugi
Artwork by Max Ligema.
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About Kintsugi
Portland, Oregon based producer Tanner Irwin aka Soup Lips joins The Rust Music family with his first official catalog release on the label, a 2-tracker titled Kintsugi. You may already be familiar with his work through a collaboration with Darklord Gob on our recent compilation release, RUST100, but Irwin has been hard at work for the better part of the last decade honing in his unique sound, lush with psychedelia and a storytelling ability that can often evade even the most seasoned musicians.
With Kintsugi, Irwin takes inspiration from its namesake, the centuries-old Japanese art form of repairing broken pottery, using lacquer mixed with powdered gold. A philosophy that can extent to all aspects of life, Irwin prefers to think of Kintsugi as the practice of viewing brokenness not as a calamity, but as an opportunity to put pieces back together and create something even more beautiful and harmonious than before, in art, in music, and even interpersonally.
“Music has been one of my greatest medicines throughout my life. I believe it is a balm for the soul. I keep making music because of its power to inspire catharsis and creativity, and it’s power to bring people together, much like the gold tinted lacquer used in traditional kintsugi, binding between once shattered pieces. But maybe most importantly, it's fun!”
- Tanner Irwin
Written, produced, and mixed by Soup Lips aka Tanner Irwin
Mastered by Mindex.
Artwork by Max Ligema
MantisMash - Blisstorted
Artwork: Natan Lenski
Synchronizing the legendary compositional palates of Israeli electronic music and the contemporary design philosophies of forward thinking producers, MantisMash has been churning out a steady stream of psybient blends for well over a decade. With 7 major releases dotting the long arc of the project, and a clear appetite for sonic exploration, there’s little ground that he hasn’t covered in his own interpretation. Continuing that same gradual expansion of the MantisMash catalog, the syncretic Blisstorted EP covers a wide territory of fusions and rhythms.
Grounded in the lucid repetition of psydub and its fraternal siblings, Blisstorted brings breaks, neuro, drum and bass, and glitch-hop into a fresh focus, pulling classic arrangement hallmarks from each respective pool. With heavy emphasis on melody-driven songwriting and crystal clear mixing fundamentals, each of the five tracks hit the center mark for taste, novelty, and a consistent dance-floor mentality. Juicy mid-range synthesis meets crisp soprano tones and sharp percussive cuts in a medley that feels both at home in the MantisMash musical rolodex and like newfound territory for the long-time stalwart Producer. Pushing past the contemporary, often one-track paradigm, Blisstorted spares no ground covered in its expedition across style and impact, and should be sitting squarely at the top of your next crate-digging adventure.
