Los Angeles based producer Al Lover has spent the last several years evolving a unique approach to psychedelic and experimental electronic music. Creating a broken abstraction of what some might see as trip hop, Al uses a mix of samples, drum machines, live instrumentation, analog synthesizers and effect processing to draw out elements from the past and connect them to the future. From the 2011 garage psych tinged project, Distorted Reverberations - where he remixed bands such as Thee Oh Sees and Night Beats - to his explorations of synthesized kraut, dark ambient and trap, Al continues to explore the fringes of psychedelic music and the common threads within its various genres, drawing parallels where others might get lost. Since 2013, Al Lover has been busy releasing a slew of projects on multiple labels (Stolen Body Records, Fuzz Club Records, Hoga Nord Rekords, PNKSLM Records, The Reverberation Appreciation Society and more), as well as collaborating with artists such as Goat, Anton Newcombe, White Fence and Cairo Liberation Front, all while touring extensively, producing the Elevated Transmissions Podcast and previously working with Levitation and Desert Daze festivals as their official DJ. On May 13th 2022, Al Lover will return with his new album 'Cosmic Joke' on Fuzz Club Records. Talking about the record, Lover says: "'Cosmic Joke' came from observing the rising, compounded, absurdity in recent years and seeing structures of normalcy dissolving. It’s my attempt to view these things as part of a higher-order process, through a metaphysical lens rather than an ideological one. It’s been an exercise in holding the paradoxical relationship of comedy and tragedy, joy and pain, growth and decay, scale and decline as part of an interlocked system that, at a deep level, is essential to how we interface with the world. How this interlocked “Yin and Yang” can be observed from individual to societal and now technological and global levels is perhaps a universal principal that we would benefit from considering our relationship to in these strange times. While making this record, I went from living in LA to living on a ranch in rural California and was able to meditate on these ideas away from the city, observing the processes of nature and how they relate to these ideas too. I believe this strengthened their value to me."