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100% GALCHER was by all accounts a game-changer when it landed in 2013 as an hour of original music from a relatively unknown producer ushered in by the beloved mix series Blowing Up The Workshop. Galcher Lustwerk's signature sound - a smoky stream-of-consciousness baritone shadow-boxing with beats, informed by funk, rap, rhythm, and blues - felt like an epiphany, impossibly hypnotic and complete. Resident Advisor writes, Inch100% GALCHER laid out a louche, lysergic and resolutely black take on deep house. Inch Pitchfork remembers the music's immediate impact InchIt's the sort of gem you felt inclined to pass aroundInch - and by year-end list time, word-of-mouth intensified. It was Resident Advisor and Juno's mix of the year, and earned a top-ten placement in FACT Magazine's albums list, as well as Philip Sherburne's personal rundown for Spin. Inch Since then, select songs from 100% GALCHER have seen small-run pressings, while the album has lived primarily on SoundCloud and YouTube as a low-key cult legend. The gateway into Lustwerk's now well-established catalog, known for it's reliability as a late-night listen and it's prophetic vision for the near future of underground dance music. RA would later name it a mix of the decade, citing it's influence and imagination InchOriginal in every sense - unknown, unheard and unbelievably good. Inch In late 2022, marking ten years since he first recorded the material, Lustwerk returns to Ghostly International to 100% GALCHER as a remastered limited-edition double LP. Lustwerk is a product of the Midwest. Growing up in Cleveland, he'd tape over his parents' cassettes and spend hours at his family computer recording loops and designing artwork for the jewel cases of burned CDs. In high school, he turned to Ableton Live and absorbed every electronic music magazine he could find at the local Borders Books store. In excerpts fro
