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LOOPSNAKE RETURNS WITH DEBUT LP “SHAPE CHANGE BLACK ALERT” As Saturn conjuncts Neptune at the very first degree of the zodiac, this ancient ghost of the Eora electronic underworld returns. In this distant past, he’d shared stages with Seekae and Rufus Du Sol. He’s remixed artists like Collarbones and Cherry Rype. Can you hear these echoes in his new release? Shape Change Black Alert meanders through these clubland ruins. Is it IDM you can actually dance to? Dancefloor wreckers for DJs who have the gall to play the game on hard-mode? Or is it just the long shadow of a man with a laptop? Recorded in exile, the album is wilfully unmoored electronica with a backbone of UK bass, slithering between prismatic joy and occult claustrophobia. Loopsnake remains lost under a desert sky. Some say they’ve seen him counting jewels for the Sultan, or wandering the glittering dunes with nothing but his headphones and the clothes on his back. But they say he’s doing well.