Brooklyn-based @color_plus aka Lars Probert wears many hats as a producer. In addition to his genre-agnostic, club-oriented releases on his own Towhead Recordings - the label behind the New York Dance Music compilation series - he’s collaborated with Eartheater in 2019 with ‘Preservation’ on her debut mixtape Trinity, worked on sound design for Telfar in recent years, and produced most of the tracks on RXK Nephew’s ‘Slitherman Activated’ from 2021. Over the past five years especially, Color Plus has demonstrated an impressive ability to repeatedly shift stylistic registers without losing at any point the unique marks of his own playfully twisted sensibility.
The record that made us want to invite him to play ITO this year was 2022’s ‘True’ (for a taste see slide 2), which was one of the best ambient records of that year in our opinion. Instead of sanding down its rough edges into a palatable blandness, ‘True’ infuses even its most soothing moments with a restless anxiety: throughout the album bugged-out sounds refuse to sit still and insist on romping around in your head. On Saturday night, after a live set by URA, Color Plus will play a 45-minute set of his own material overlooking the creek: we have no idea which of his hats he’ll be wearing, you’ll have to be there to find out.
