Artist: Magnus Lassila
Release Year: 2021
Description: Is this album for the listener?
Or for the modular system itself?
STACK 6 is a deep dive into modular ambient improvisation, built from sprawling, layered patches — some so complex they required every last cable in the case.
Using techniques like CV layering to control both lead and harmony, loop-based frippertronics, and clock-modulated slews, the album explores the line between chaos and calm.
Despite its technical density, the result is anything but busy. From the first track’s gliding, lap steel–like tones to the final echoes, this is music that relaxes without dulling, drifts without vanishing, and repeats without looping.
It’s become a sauna favorite for a reason — warm, slow, strangely alive.
Maybe it was made for the gear.
But the gear made it for you.