Across Sporadic, Jeffries continues to refine a Detroit-rooted language of machine funk—precise, physical, and built for sound systems.
Author: Will Wonks
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Apple Tree Brightness burns like sunrise personified as the latest release fromdatewithdeath (aka Travis D. Johnson), landing fresh on the ever-refined Poverty Electronics, a label that has quietly shaped its own groundbreaking corner of experimental electronics for well over a decade.
Marco Simioni :: MSdrift++ EP (Fear of Silence)
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Beyond the Clones :: Kerberos Directory System EP (Self Released)
Beyond the Clones then does a fantastic job of morphing proto-EBM rhythms, contemporary glitch textures, and those delightful toybox electronics into this next release. And in so doing, moving between space-like abstraction and grounded abrasions with a physical intensity throughout.
Poppy H :: SICK STREET (Self Released)
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David A. Jaycock :: Children of the Cold War [Phase 7] (Subexotic)
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whø? :: Riding The Bassline EP (Who Is Paula)
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