Decompose / Reassemble

Originally from California and now based in Osaka, Japan, Magical Mistakes will become the latest beat constructor to join King Deluxe's ever-growing artist roster when his Decompose / Reassemble EP drops in the coming months. In the meantime, Magical Mistakes has plans to make his way stateside—along with fellow Japanese artists Seiho and And Vice Versa—for a brief tour which will touch down in eight US cities. To help spread the word, Magical Mistakes has passed along EP opener "Laid Out," a bell-bathed, slow-swung cut that seems to pull inspiration from the lineage of contemplative beats crafted by the likes of Shlohmo and Mount Kimbie. - XLR8R site

Beat maker Magical Mistakes creates the sort of music that somehow manages to be immaculately considered and effortlessly playful, sharing complexity with a sun-drenched simplicity. With the release of his Decompose / Reassemble EP set in the coming months, the Osaka, Japan native originally from California has dropped its first single ‘Laid Out’. Magical Mistakes, otherwise known as Erik Luebs, is much more than a producer, he’s a multi-instrumentalist and perhaps most tellingly, a highly skilled percussionist. Immediately drawing comparisons to the likes of Shlohmo and Bibio, ‘Laid Out’ sees Luebs framing bubbling percussions and jazzy instrumentation with a shuffling beat. ‘Laid Out’ is without a doubt an intensely worked through production, and every inch of it screams of Luebs’ masterful understanding of music. With this being said Magical Mistakes is an almost childish affair, yet it is Luebs ability to combine this with the maturity lying behind his music, without ever letting either stand above the other, that makes it such an exciting project. - Table 9 Mutants blog

His love for psychedelia characterises his work, along with a self-professed appreciation for the minimalist and the melancholy. He is primarily a percussionist too, and with this combined he creates intelligent electronica through numerous layers of idiophonic melodies. - Soniscope blog

Erik Luebs of Magical Mistakes first rode into our and Decoder’s life in a van on the crest of a wave of goodwill. Liz and I received forewarning thanks to Jordan Lee of Mutual Benefit, who’d been crafting that good sentiment and positivity on his own before joining up with producer/percussionist Luebs, Cameron Potter of Little Spoon, and well-traveled violinist Jake Falby for a round of touring. They hadn’t come to play a show, but we all enjoyed sharing a mid-tour rest stop and I even managed to sneak in some complaints about the abominable job I was holding down at the time. Plenty has transpired in the Mutual Benefit camp since then and Cameron has had several tapes released, but its only in the last several months that the next evolution of Luebs’ Magical Mistakes project has begun to emerge, with a new EP planned for Canadian imprint/collective King Deluxe; presumably he also showed up there some morning on a wave of good will, he’s so damned nice. As of now though, he’s in the lead-up to an American “Spring Fever” tour with fellow Japanese artists Seiho and And Vice Versa, so the projects latest teaser “Laid Out” serves the dual purpose of laying ground work for that and the EP post-tour. Released just two weeks after sharing the similarly tempered but less gregarious official tour promo from Magical Mistakes, “Forest Floors,” and following a long spate of remixes and one-offs, his latest single has a more willful energy that stands out alongside prior work. It excels most for its almost disorienting balance, never losing focus as the scope of Luebs’ evocative looped meditations discharge their associative payloads broadly across mellow woodwinds, a stalwart beat, delicately abrasive textures crusted along just the right sounds, and the bright interjections of all and sundry (which I suspect most constitutes the heart of his considered whimsy). - Decoder site

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