Limerencia

There are three main threads running through this breakthrough album by Uruguayan musician/performer/producer Camila Domingue aka Lila Tirando a Violeta. First, it exists in a distinctly Latin continuum of dubwise electronic music that can be heard in the likes of Peruvians Dengue Dengue Dengue!, New Yorker DJ Python, Miami’s INVT and Nick Leon, and Mexican Siete Catorce — and which made this album a natural fit for Mexico City’s N.A.A.F.I. imprint. Second is the global “deconstructed club” tendency, into which her hyper-detailed production, glassy synths and the gabber kick drums of “Noch Tótem” here all neatly fit. Third, perhaps less obvious, but equally important is the longer, deeper tradition of occult industrial sound going back through Coil and Throbbing Gristle, which literally haunts even Domingue’s prettiest sounds. All of this flows together, though, and even though there are a host of collaborators including Leon, Argentina’s EL PLVYBXY and brilliant Irish producer Lighght, this record really showed a singular talent, and announced the hugely prolific Domingue as one of the most important names in contemporary electronica.