Perishable Tactics

The first Carsten Jost album for 15 Years - his first since 2000’s “You Don’t Need A Weatherman…”

In the interim he’s kept busy curating countless releases on Dial, the label he co-runs with Peter “Lawrence” Kersten, celebrated a 15 year label anniversary with an all-encompassing 2LP/various artists’ compilation, released a gallery-edition album of his black ambient collaboration Misanthrope CA with Robert Kulisek, “Deathbridge" and launched a new magazine project (also with Kulisek) named after the speed of light i.e. “299792458m/s”. Out of all of the Dial house and techno artists, Carsten Jost has always represented the most precise brand of exquisitely doom-laden house, laced with equally strong doses of melancholy and beauty. Here on “Perishable Tactics”, Lieske runs through his distinctively stealthy low-slung beat-mospheres, leaning towards a decidedly low-lit and sultry space, but mixed with a fresh, gently arc-ing feeling of romance and dare I say it?―Love(?) This feeling is woven into his deep, medium tempo, detroit-inflected house rhythms, accented with crystalline keys, disembodied voices at times and gently soaring strings.