A blast from the pasts’ future, still intact and ever forward-thinking electronics not to be missed.
A blast from the pasts’ future
Mike Williamson’s Made alias will be recognizable to those who recall IDM’s early years—that span of time between 1999 and 2005 where it seemed like new imprints and artists busted open their shells and revealed that underground experimental electronics was alive and well (ref. Skam, Neo Ouija, DeFocus, Suction, Toytronic, City Centre Offices, Schematic et al). Many of these labels and artists unfortunately dissolved and/or went on hiatus, with only a handful returning to relight the spark.
Nonetheless, it’s a welcomed return for Made all these years later, with brokntoys picking up the pieces, quite literally. The title track is an arcane and blistered electro glitch behemoth with 5-minutes of machine music from another planet, its blips and bleeps set to stun mode, rolling low-end rhythms chug along with a vaporous and dystopian sheen, coming across as the highlight on this lathe cut 3-track 7″ which has already sold out. “Tek50” slithers about with microscopic technoid funk, a futuristic and minimalistic take on acid squelching layers. “Tek60” takes a more relaxed approach with its refined atmospheric undertones, lightened pitter-patter shuffle and ominously tranquil tone.
Overall, a blast from the pasts’ future, still intact and ever forward-thinking electronics not to be missed. Let this be a signal of more to come, possibly?
When Straight Lines Become Curves is available on brokntoys. [Bandcamp]
