Found sounds, field recordings, and sputtering beat patches evolve and eventually break down as loosened melodic strands bend and twist.
A glowing musical metamorphosis
It’s quite easy to fall head-first into the strange yet alluring sonic world exm (aka Jeroen Bax) creates. As an avid passenger for several years, the exm vehicle is always in motion, its emotional draw intact and exact. Electrical nuances reveal themselves within this three piece traverse, collapsing like a dying star. A glowing musical metamorphosis buries itself in galactic soup as modular fizz-fuzz and rhythmic textures form the tiniest particles of dust and gas. How exm manages to create vast soundtrack panoramas at such a high quality to quantity ratio is perplexing. Found sounds, field recordings, and sputtering beat patches evolve and eventually break down as loosened melodic strands bend and twist. Three pieces across forty minutes, the audible granules on pas de point blister, break, and branch out as a whole listening experience where the abstract electronic tones don’t feel alien, but rather connected to us in some kind of suspended animation. Is this perhaps the language of our universe speaking directly to us? As a long-term passenger, I believe it could be.
pas de point is available on Bandcamp.
