024 // Eyeliner

Eyeliner is Luke Rowell of Wellington, New Zealand: MIDI Fantasist, theoretical luxurist and deep-thought enthusiast. Conceived as a side-project to his main outfit Disasteradio in 2012, Rowell switched to performing Eyeliner live after a knee injury meant he couldn’t dance onstage.

Eyeliner cites vaporwave music as a main influence, as well as the new-age / library labels Windham Hill, Innovative Communication and Abaco Music.

This mix features a few ideas I’ve been interested in the last two years, and in the making of the most recent Eyeliner album BUY NOW: specifically voice sampling, and the timbres of workstation piano, kalimba, chimes and pan flute.