The Soviet-sampling on LTF’s New ‘Monolith’ Record
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Today marks the release of LTF’s journey into retrofuturistic Soviet sounds. For Monolith, he sampled obscure Soviet jazz and funk records to create deep and heavy hip-hop productions. No wonder another website called him “the young Russian Madlib” yesterday…
Russian producer LTF uses analog synthesizers, dub techniques, and subtle knob turns on a delay pedal to morph the context of these samples. The hype sticker sums up this new record: “Who is LTF, you ask? Imagine Large Professor, The Herbaliser & Scientist digging in Soviet crates together, using the grooves they find for deep & heavy instrumental hip-hop.” Monolith is the official follow-up to 2018’s Jazz Echo on Dday One’s The Content Label.
The Monolith LP is now available on Rucksack Records’ Bandcamp. Each record comes with a hype sticker on the shrink wrap, liner notes and photography on the back of the cover, and a special infinitely looped last track on the B-side (yup). The record is also available at HHV Records and Vinylism. However, the Soviet-style Solid Red edition with inverted labels is only available on Bandcamp.