A unique collection and audiovisual retrospective that goes a long way in commemorating Cory Mills‘ memory.
A multitude of braindance, glitch, experimental, and IDM genres
Recently, EC Underground published a seventeen-piece suite, recorded between 2021 and 2023, as a memorial album for Cory Mills. The album spans a multitude of braindance, glitch, experimental, and IDM genres, where you can easily experience Mills’ appreciation for artists like Clark, Flying Lotus, Aphex Twin, Prefuse 73, Radiohead, Battles, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Autechre. The May 12th release date also coincides with what would have been Mills’ 41st birthday. However, the capacity to create distinctive melodic strands laced with flickering beats is what distinguishes the album from others in the same field (see “Project_MopUp.Song_Fuck.Again” and “Indefinite Incompletion”) and goes a long way to expand these unique genres.
The stretched twelve-minute synth exploration of “Empty Couch Nest” investigates the boundaries of time and space, while the brittle kaleidoscopic rhythms of “Mighty Fine,” “VideoGlitch” and “I ve Never Heard Of Aphex Twin” are a great illustration of how electro and frenetic breaks can easily bust through our bass bins with high-energy propulsion. This album’s blips and bleeps cascade, with tracks like “Sunndayy” providing extended mechanical fragments to consume.
Introspective pieces like “Gratitude,” “Apology,” and “Meh” give the impression that Cory Mills wanted to offer some resolve for the citizens of Planet Earth as he’s reached a new plateau in the universe. Ultimately, all that’s left is for us Earthlings to take in these heartfelt soundscapes and enjoy them with friends and family. A unique collection and audiovisual retrospective that goes a long way in commemorating Cory Mills’ memory.
“I will be like Jackson Pollock and provide you with an infinite amount of musical abstractions, and you can help me organize and make them more listenable. I want to record a cohesive album that evolves like a novel, not a collection of erratic jams in different styles. My favorite musicians/bands are Clark, Flying Lotus, Aphex Twin, Prefuse 73, Radiohead, Battles, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Autechre.” ~Cory Mills
All tracks written and produced by Cory Mills between 2021/2023
Mastering by Syrte
No master on tracks 2, 10 and 12
Track 13 by Frank Riggio (ECU005)
All cover arts by Cory Mills and selected by Maura Roll
Cory Mills 1983-2024 is available on EC Underground. [Bandcamp | Site]
RIP Cory Mills (5.12.1983 — 3.22.2024)
The release is on a pay-as-you-want basis. Feel free to be generous as you deem appropriate; the revenues will go directly to Cory’s family.
