Uvwxyz by Libythth

Uvwxyz is the electrifying new full length from secretive Los Angeles electronic music entity Libythth. This double LP on sapphire vinyl is the first ever physical release from the theoretical record label Borbid Torpor Undertainment. This record commemorates 30 years of Libythth, electronica’s rarest cryptid. 30 years! That's as long as the Grateful Dead were a band.

Libythth went on tour to promote this album twenty years before its release. This incalculable slab of twelve tracks was originally created for a west coast US tour and numerous obscure live events in Los Angeles around 2003 and then placed in a large freezer. In 2023 it was lovingly defrosted from its torpor and rebuilt from the ground up with a freshly unboxed palette of sounds. With deep stridulated grooves sprouted from mystery audio samples manipulated and transposed into alarmingly catchy hooks, Libythth weaves an unigmatic tapestry of fragrant synthetic instruments, drums and guitar to make you stomp your hands and clap your feet.

Uvwxyz takes its inspiration from the last six letters of the alphabet and delves into many universal themes; A painting of a creature called a ybbtr, the singer of a German industrial band giving a weather report, and a savory high altitude foreign dish. Salamanders battling depression, a race of plastic based beings fighting to protect their homeland, and the complex artistry of aromatic gel dispenser design.

Disc 2 explores a festival of psychoactive soda products, the underground pagoda-powered auto racing circuit, and getting caught playing a priceless antique piano with your feet. Mail order kits for growing miniature seals and dolphins, guitar pedal setups with rotting vegetables patched into the signal chain, and of course, death.

Uvwxyz by Libythth is an expleptic singularity. A quantum mesh of nanoscopic polygons, interdigitating endomorphism. Counterclockwise structure, an irrational manifold of infinite hallways. We can be like they are.

Electronica's rarest cryptid since 1993

The profound impact Libythth has had on electronic music is purely theoretical and the full prunt of its influence on countless nonexistent artists cannot be measured by any stick.

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