Louis Haiman – Life After People

Louis Haiman’s productions debuted on Transmat’s Time:Space comps, and he has since gone on to start his own label fwdthought to release similarly minded atmospheric melodic techno (including Pittsburgh’s own Chris Schubert’s excellent debut long player). He also had a track on Arne Weinberg’s AW-Recordings compilation “Viewpoints Chapter 1” earlier this year.

Louis released two versions of what was essentially the same album back in ’05 and ’06; it was quite interesting to see how the concept developed over the two CDs. Finally, he has a follow-up entitled “Life After People” ready to go with plans to release it as a paid download and CD in the near future. In the meantime, he has decided to make it available to ISM readers for a short time (basically, until he pulls the plug on it!). You can download the tracks from this page (Link updated. Go to that page for 2 downloadable zip files, the first is the album Life After People, the other is another side project of Louis’!). For me, this is his best stuff so far, especially “Dulce” and “The Night You Were Born”. The intro cut “Gentle” is gorgeously lush in a manner that reminds me of Aphex’s SAW2, though way way too short at only 1:16. You may see a longer remix of that one coming out of the 412 shortly!

We are very grateful to Louis for hooking our readers up like this, remember to support his music when it comes out in a more tangible format! If his older album “Actualization” is still available, I reccomend it highly. You can check Louis out at his myspace page and check out the fwdthought label at its homepage for more info.