Lets Go Outside - Picnic W. The Hunters

Let’s Go Outside will release his debut album on Soma titled “Picnic With The Hunters” on January 28, 2008. 

Stephen Schieberl has produced electronic music for over a decade, taking the mantra “Let’s Go Outside” as his moniker. Residing in Portland, Oregon where he first released on small local experimental label, Buried In Time, he soon moved onto Bradford-based Midnight Recordings before being picked up by Soma shortly afterwards.

His discography includes everything from nearly silent ambient to the most destructive of techno, and all that lies between. Let’s Go Outside’s performances borrow from this immense palette to create a form of music that defies genre.  His weird and filthy techno hits you like a rusty chainsaw in the face… in a good way.

‘I’ll Lick Your Spine’, his first 12” on Soma’s offshoot label Pnuma, gained huge support from Andrew Weatherall, Laurent Garnier and Ivan Smagghe with Smagghe going on to reconstruct the track alongside minimal man of the moment Massi DL in a remix single due to be released on Soma shortly. Schieberl then compiled 100 of his favourite creations and demanded Soma’s A&R whittle these down to a masterpiece album.

Kicking off the album is the wonky techno sound of Peripheral. Like a lot of Let’s Go Outside’s work this is menacingly fun, blissfully malicious. The track bounds along in leaps while the mind-warping pitch-bending melodies quirkily mess with your perceptions. Schieberl’s own vocals lend an abstract human edge to the electronic hysteria.

Let’s Go Outside pays homage to a mass of genres throughout the album. ‘I’ll Keep on Trying’ for example is an exceptional celebration of acid techno. Meanwhile tracks like ‘I’ll Lick Your Spine’ toy with genre taking inspiration from IDM, ambient and electro to create such a slutty little number. With the fiendishly sexy vocals of Christina Broussard this track is like a lusty vampire luring you in only to leave you bloodied and torn.

‘My First Time’ is audio violence. Delving into the darkest stretches of Schieberl’s mind finds cutesy vocals being brutally assaulted by a barrage of beats and squelchy bass. Schieberl is keen to note that no-one was hurt in the making of this track. He’s lying. Kindly enough he resolves the raid with ‘Like My Creep’, a track which begins in delicate, creepy ambience merging into wobbly IDM.