Asher Levitas

Asher Levitas is a London-based electronic musician who co-founded the mysterious experimental duo Old Apparatus during the early 2010s. The pair initially appeared in 2011 with two singles on Deep Medi Musik, the label run by dubstep pioneer Mala, but their sound was hard to label, ranging from dark ambient drone to suspenseful abstract beats. In 2012, Old Apparatus appeared on Honest Jon's Records' Shangaan Shake collection (a remix album of the Shangaan Electro compilation), and cassette label The Tapeworm released the duo's tape 15:24-15:46. Also that year, the pair released four 12" EPs on their own Sullen Tone, collecting most of the tracks on the 2013 CD Compendium. After the compilation's release, the duo issued a digital EP titled Epirtsder. Also in 2013, Levitas formed a duo called Saa with vocalist Linn Carin Dirdal (of Marble Arch). Significantly more pop-influenced than Old Apparatus, but just as eerie and experimental, Saa's debut EP was released by Left Blank in 2013, followed by the 2014 cassette Walking Waters on Overshare Records. Also in 2014, Levitas contributed a remix of the song "Halo Heart" to Glass Body, the debut EP by Berlin-based darkwave pop group Soft as Snow, released by Houndstooth. Levitas signed to Mike Paradinas' Planet Mu label for the release of his solo debut, Lit Harness, which arrived in June of 2016. The album continued to combine throbbing bass and tense, atmospheric electronics with ethereal pop elements, including vocals by Marina Elderton.
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