Marco Simioni :: JOMO (Detroit Underground)

JOMO functions as a distributed remix field where no single version holds authority, only variation and return. It reads as a chapter drenched in lucid fragmentation, riotous repetition, and sophisticated uncontrolled mutation across 23 parallel expressions of the same hot saucy source — here is then an album that treats composition as infrastructure, continuously dismantled and rebuilt from within, on a label to adore.

Continuous reconfiguration rather than linear development

 

Marco Simioni returns to the masterful Detroit Underground with remix package JOMO, a 23-track project reframing his 2023 album FOMO into a enticing and stratospheric future funk colossus. The original album is cracked wide open and redistributed across a wide field of pioneering reinterpretations, with each serious artist isolating a countlessness of differing fragments and pushing them into uncharted territory.

Marco‘s original album tracks like the masterful “Sagamartha,” “A Thousand Mirrors,” “Banshee,” and “Ancdum Nesbit ++,” are repurposed and given new life distinct from some stunningly strong source material. The mixes now move between ambient passages, reduced 4/4 club frameworks, fragmented rhythmic approaches that lean toward stuttered funk, electro-esque type, and sonically broken beat structures. In places passages may drift into skeletal pulses; elsewhere retaining all-out club pressure while shifting internal timing and rebalancing rhythmic emphasis, creating versions that feel structurally re-cut rather than simply reinterpreted.

Future legends RACERBOY, Rough Sleeper, and John-Robin Bold push deep atmospherics, stretching texture into slow, suspended space. Favorite cable.percussion sharpens “Fragment of Complex Idealism” into an ecstatic, rhythmic sublimation, while Consciousness Energy Grid turns “Dot With Illumination” into tight neo-funk propulsion with precise groove control that took my breath away.

Other stunners from Banrat, Sukkube, YASSUD, Huno Huno, and Darko Vukic each lock onto different internal components — timbre, rhythm, minimalism or skeletal rearrangement — to rebuild them as focused studies in reduction, drift and shift. In particular, Consciousness Energy Grid and Ibrahim Alfa Jnr returned as absolute stand outs for their more direct, uncompromising approaches, tightening flow, increasing momentum, and catapulting color and joy into a 4 AM dancefloor mystical experience. Holy water work.

Across JOMO, FOMO is no longer a fixed album but a modular system under constant re-entry. Identity is split across versions, replaced by continuous reconfiguration rather than linear development. The release functions as a distributed remix field where no single version holds authority, only variation and return. It reads as a chapter drenched in lucid fragmentation, riotous repetition, and sophisticated uncontrolled mutation across 23 parallel expressions of the same hot saucy source — here is then an album that treats composition as infrastructure, continuously dismantled and rebuilt from within, on a label to adore.

Photo credit: Clara Wildberger

JOMO is available on Detroit Underground. [Bandcamp]