More Sprouted Lentils is Camcussion operating at full capacity—hardware-driven, unpredictable, and completely unconcerned with playing it safe. In a genre that can sometimes mistake complexity for depth, Doig‘s instinct for fun is his sharpest tool.
Camcussion’s most chaotic and hardware-heavy statement yet
The first track on More Sprouted Lentils was recovered from the hard drive of a crashed PC. Exact synths unknown, just whatever survived. That detail sets the tone for everything that follows. Cameron Doig, the Windsor, Ontario-based producer and DJ operating as Camcussion, has been releasing abstract electronica since 2018, and his latest on Detroit Underground is his most chaotic and hardware-heavy statement yet.
The album opens chaotically and doesn’t hold back. “Orbital Cemetery” is a good start and a strong introduction to the rest of the album’s diversity. Doig does this opener in two parts and the execution is enjoyable. The track has two distinct personalities—the drums shift towards the end, turning into a different rhythm and set of notes before he closes things out with a speech and drums fading into the background. A very nice way to introduce his sound design vocabulary before the rest of the album unfolds.
Somewhere between meticulous sound design and deliberate chaos ::
“Social Undesirable” is the most acid-forward moment on the record. The Bass Bot TT-303 drives the track while 808 samples and Atari textures get processed through a Kaoss Pad, and the result is controlled chaos—glitch rhythms fragmenting around an acid backbone that refuses to lose its footing. The outro here, like several others on the release, is worth paying attention to. Doig treats his closing moments as part of the composition rather than an exit ramp, which gives the album a sense of intention that carries through even its most unruly passages.
“Super Cute Puppy Image” operates somewhere between meticulous sound design and deliberate chaos. The Korg Gadget and Behringer MS-1 provide the melodic and textural foundation while the Eventide Space reverb smears everything into a slightly dreamlike wash beneath the percussion. What distinguishes the track is Doig‘s refusal to anchor it to a fixed drum pattern, snare rushes, clicks, and vocal chops cycle through without ever repeating the same configuration twice, giving the track a quality closer to live improvisation than programmed sequencing. In the context of IDM, where intricate programming often comes at the expense of spontaneity, that looseness is genuinely refreshing. It recalls the more playful moments of Wagon Christ or early Prefuse 73, producers who understood that humor and precision aren’t mutually exclusive.
Doig closes the album with “Proactive Mindset,” an absolute silenced acid track, and I mean that in the softest way possible. It isn’t your average harsh acid track. By this point in the album we’ve been getting some intense, chaotic productions, and “Proactive Mindset” feels like an intentional cool-down. The acid retreats, the drums settle, and the album closes on something close to stillness, which after everything that preceded it feels genuinely earned. More Sprouted Lentils is Camcussion operating at full capacity—hardware-driven, unpredictable, and completely unconcerned with playing it safe. In a genre that can sometimes mistake complexity for depth, Doig‘s instinct for fun is his sharpest tool.
More Sprouted Lentils is available on Detroit Underground. [Bandcamp]
