Various Artists

Los Angeles-based promoter Andrew Lojero uses the ArtDontSleep pseudonym when he's getting people drunk at loft parties. He organizes celebrations on the West Coast that highlight local artists and musicians, and on ArtDontSleep Presents From L.A. With Love, Lojero's hand-picked array of underground psyche and beatmakers delights and befuddles. Producer...

By Dominic Umile

July 5, 2007

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Los Angeles-based promoter Andrew Lojero uses the ArtDontSleep pseudonym when he's getting people drunk at loft parties. He organizes celebrations on the West Coast that highlight local artists and musicians, and on ArtDontSleep Presents From L.A. With Love, Lojero's hand-picked array of underground psyche and beatmakers delights and befuddles. Producer Elvin Estela takes sampling and drones to its most hippiefied on each occasion as Nobody, and his collaboration with vocalist Niki Randa called Blank Blue ("All the Shallow Deep") encourages sound sleep with clapping hand drum beats and playful backward guitar loops. Chopped bits from Exile (who partnered with Aloe Blacc for Emanon) as well as another glitchy romp from Flying Lotus, stewing in vintage synth patches and vinyl crackles, comprise a sparkling few minutes here, while glimpses of the always impressive Stones Throw camp are too few. Georgia Anne Muldrow's "Killa Peach" is bright and bumpin', but her cheery delivery is obscured by a vocoder that should have been lent to Gonjasufi and the Gaslamp Killer for "Kobwebs." With a scope wide enough to include the Free Moral Agents' sweeping, acid-washed rock, Lojero has done right by California's generous underground.

Dominic Umile

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