subtractiveLAD is Stephen Hummel, a Vancouver-based musician setting out to
redefine the essence of electronic music and its expandable sub-genres.
title :: where the land meets the sky
format :: compact disc/digital
label :: n5MD
release date :: march 10th, 2009
full length
album
title :: apparatus
format :: compact disc/digital
label :: n5MD
release date :: february 26th, 2008
full length
album
"...like an eerie meeting point between Brian Eno and Kevin Shields." - BOOMKAT
"...subtractiveLAD’s hazy ambiance and fluid textures blossom in ten tracks
that are more typically celestial in character than overpoweringly aggressive."
- TEXTURA
"...he incrementally shifts his sound yet again, purposefully adding to his already considerable repertoire." - ANGRYAPE
title
:: no man’s land
format :: compact disc/digital
label :: n5MD
release date :: february 6th, 2007
full length
album
"...the album becomes a warm travelogue of shifting moods and colours." - TEXTURA
"By utilising swathes of fluid electronic layers, precise beats and intricate melodies, Hummel creates a warm yet very personal album laden with poignant atmosphere." - SIDE-LINE MAGAZINE
"I’m transported for an hour into the subconscious of a remarkable musician, an experience I find intensely human." - EVILSPONGE
title
:: suture
format :: compact disc/digital
label :: n5MD
release date :: february 14th, 2006
full length
album
"...a vast emotional space for the listener to confront." - THE WIRE MAGAZINE
"...music which rises like a vapor in the mind while sustaining the body’s need for movement music." - IGLOO MAGAZINE
"Though it closes on a note of placidity, it’s Suture’s epic dimension that signifies the most dramatic development in Hummel’s subtractiveLAD style." - TEXTURA
title
:: giving up the ghost
format :: compact disc/digital
label :: n5MD
release date :: february 15th, 2005
full length
album
"Highly recommended." - GROOVES MAGAZINE
"...an audible human heart clearly beats at the core of this particular machine." - TEXTURA
"...fuels the mind with magnetic electricity and a sense of optimism in a world full of chaos." - E/I MAGAZINE
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