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Rife with glittering arps and diaphanous harmonics, and named with perfectly lofty track titles, Melzak’s eponymous slab plays right into LSD’s black hole of vinyl enigmas. Your guess is as good as ours to Melzak’s provenance, but to our lugs it sounds somewhere between Werkbund and Tangerine Dream. 

- Boomkat

New Light Sounds Dark, sees the label explore original music with abstract, trascendental themes. I don't think Alexander Melzak exists in this dimension, the music he's conjured up here is like a holographic refraction of old C64 soundscapes, the higher communication between planet species and a series of over-exposures to Stranger Things. 

It's exciting and bewildering in equal measure and sure to keep fans of Finders Keepers, Death Waltz, video game soundtracks and B-movie music glues to the end of their stylus until the very last groove. 

- Piccadilly Records 

A name as hard to track down as label host Light Sounds Dark’s, enigmatic composer Alexander Melzak has little to no information to his name — could he be a long-gone cult hero who spent his years toiling away at a DAW somewhere under multiple pseudonyms, or a hobbyist who poured his all into a perfectly stellar one-off electronic album? 

Either way, his self-titled debut is a record to rival the kosmische pantheon, its synths shimmering, its arps ascendent, its popping beats a joy to hear. Underlying cosmic darkness rests beneath a great deal of these alien soundscapes. 

- Bleep