Three decades of Lackluster / Esa Ruoho music has been interviewed and reviewed across the international electronic-music press. The full archive lives at lackluster.org/press — this page is the CV-facing summary.
U-cover, Mor Festival, New Music Community — label / festival Q&As
Selected reviews (notable outlets)
Lackluster / Esa Ruoho releases have been reviewed by:
The Wire — Showcase
Resident Advisor — Anodyne: The Remixes EP
Mixmag — Repulsine EP
XLR8R — Remixselection_One, Showcase
DJ Mag — R U Oho?, FOC349
Boomkat — Wrapping, Remixselection_One
Textura — Repulsine EP, Slice, What You Want Isn't What You Need
Cyclic Defrost — Alley, Repulsine EP, Before We Melt
Igloomag — extensive coverage across the catalogue (Riversmouth, Lexicon of Goods, Container, Showcase, Wrapping, …)
De-Bug (Germany), Raveline (Germany), Muzik, URB, Jockey Slut, All Music Guide, Vital Weekly, The Sound Projector, Side-Line, Gonzo Circus, Bad Alchemy, Donal Dineen's Sunken Treasures (Irish radio)
HLER and compilation appearances also reviewed (HLER: LGM-1 — Side-Line, AmbientBlog, Igloomag, This Is Darkness; Music For Abandoned Cold War Places — Merchants of Air, Side-Line, NocoVision; The Dystopian World of J.G. Ballard — The Sound Projector, Avant Music News).
Significance for the CV
This is three decades of international press recognition — interviews and reviews in The Wire, Resident Advisor, Mixmag, XLR8R, DJ Mag, Boomkat and dozens more, across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Finland, Spain and beyond. It is independent, third-party validation of the Lackluster project spanning labels Merck, deFocus/Focus, Psychonavigation, U-cover and others.