Damian Lazarus’ debut album “Smoke the Monster Out” is coming out in a couple of months. Before I go on, I really should mention that there’s a reason why I never thought of becoming a music journalist. The reason is that my English vocabulary is limited and I find it extremely hard to put words to emotions. When, in cases like these, I need to describe something, I resort to this fairly simple calculation to find the right words (in programming the following are called Arrays):

Positive_feeling_words = ["nice", "beautiful", "amazing", "mmm"]
Negative_feeling_words = ["awful", "ouch","yuck","hmm"]

Simple as that.

So when I say that Smoke the Monster Out is a beautiful album, you should understand that it may well be a lot of other “positive” things too. Another important thing about it is that it’s not techno, which came as a surprise when first listening to it. But on second thought I realized that it made perfect sense for this to come from Damian, and that in fact the album’s tone matched his love for the weird and wonderful (but mostly the weird) in his dj sets, podcasts and the Get Lost compilation, be it techno, psychedelic, “ballady” or experimental.

If my skills at album-reviewing are urging you to scratch your eyeballs out, go read what a proper journalist has to say about it, here and here. Or even here.

Anyway, as this is not a music blog, and I clearly should leave the reviewing to the Reviewers, let’s move things forward: to promote this release, Damian will be performing at some of the biggest clubs around the world over the next few months, starting in a couple of weeks where he will be playing at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

The long and short of this post is that I’ve been producing the visuals for his show, which will also see me VJing alongside him. I’ll have to go into more detail about this at some other time, as right now I’m racing against time to get the content ready before I go to L.A. next Saturday.

So while you anxiously wait for me to write my next post about this, you can rest your eyes on Laz Wabit, who will be one of the creatures entertaining thousands of clubbers around the globe.