Dr. Mandell’s New Prescription

Yes, the Doctor may be back in the house, but it’s techno he’s peddling, or rather 20 years of electronic music history fused into a series of techno-influenced tracks guaranteed, Schematic quality-assured.

After contributing to a wave of laptop music unleashed on an unsuspecting suburban Minnesota in the late 1990’s with custom-written live performance software, Jake Mandell followed up with delivery of a number of well-regarded releases on Carpark and the legendary Worm Interface and Force Inc. imprints. Early-period Mandell combined techno, IDM, and d’n’b elements into dense collages strewn with quirky melodic strands fused with forward-thinking sound design. He then moved to Berlin, worked as Product Manager for the Reaktor soft synth from 2000-2003 at Native Instruments HQ, and played live shows throughout Europe, after which… He vanished. Not into thin air, but from musical view—into the world of medicine.

Now, after more than 15 years of radio silence, Schematic is unable to contain its excitement over release of an album of fresh Mandell material, Magnetic Resonance. And it’s a new prescription from the now Boston-based practicing physician. Yes, the Doctor may be back in the house, but it’s techno he’s peddling, or rather 20 years of electronic music history fused into a series of techno-influenced tracks guaranteed, Schematic quality-assured, to “balance technical intricacy with neck snapping grooves and surprisingly emotional moments.”

Magnetic Resonance is available on Schematic.