An Italian native by way of Berlin, DJ Luca Draccar is affected by many things in his life and art including being bipolar. There is a long tradition of musicians having more issues to deal with than the average person when it comes to the mind and processing things. It is why so many musicians are special and make connections with people. This is his 4th release with the Lush Point label and the EP reflects the contradictions the DJ has in his path.
The quote in his press release speaks volumes about what you will find within the recordings here. Draccar says, “Electronic music plays the intermediary with the supernatural entities.” Now as much as I do love titties (pun intended), after listening to the 4 song EP “No Sometimes Yes”, I have to say I am on the fence about what I like about this music. It is competent and can rattle the speakers when played at the right volume, but it leaves me cold somehow and not in the good way the alien sounds of John Digweed or Can does. It also does not make me happy in that special way that listening to Daft Punk can do as well.
There is a clear emotional connection between artist and the tunes, yet the connection tends to be a darker unsettling one. It can be a trippy trail through the deeper more foreboding forest of house music though. It even borders on true tech house on some tracks, but there does not seem to be a heartfelt commitment to that tract that a Mark Knight and Funk Agenda have on a song like “Man With The Red Face”.
The strongest song on the EP is the first one, “No Sky”. It begins with confidence and only builds higher and higher from there. It is the one track on the album where you could imagine getting the people on the dance floor in a trance-like tribal performance and abandon. The handclaps give a human touch to a vaguely inhuman track. The coming rise of the machines would love this to be their theme song. It is spooky and catchy at the same time. The other songs are serviceable but this is the one that stands out for me.
Luca Draccar is currently living in Los Angeles and may be a name to lay a bet on in the USA house DJ stakes.
