Experimental Electronic Music
Somatic Responses and John Healy, specifically on this release, have spent over three decades refining the specific space between force and sweetness that their catalog occupies. Operational Ambivalence doesn’t reinvent that space. It just inhabits it with the kind of confidence that comes from thirty years of knowing exactly where you live.
John Healy returns with a blistering five-track suite steeped in distortion, mechanical pressure, and digital disarray. From the ironclad march of the title track to the fractured geometries of “Monomat,” Healy sculpts a world of warped percussion, ambient debris, and glitch-ridden chaos. Dense and disorienting, it rewards those willing to navigate its alien circuitry.
Algorythm of Hate is an intense plunge into the wreckage of noise and industrial dissonance—a raw, calculated demolition of structure that invites listeners to find order in the ruins.
A powerful collection of tempered electronics that assimilates parallel genres to form the dynamic duo’s recognizable groove.
It’s no surprise that BLAEN (aka John Healy) encapsulates the farthest depths of electrical collisions; he’s been at it for over two decades, honing his skills behind machines and dangling cables.
Psychic Artillery is simply the epicenter of deconstructed industrial electronics, and it’s great to see this outfit continue to master it.
The scraping, noise-drenched slabs in which John Healy (one half of Somatic Responses) is able to craft are astounding.
SA18 gather vast drones that at once feel light and airy, but also traverse deeper sonic terrain where the proverbial ebb and flow fits the mood all the way through.
More analog and synth-blasted madness from the ever-talented South West Wales, UK-based artist BLAEN (aka John Healy of Somatic Responses).
An avalanche of visceral electronics, pulling the listener through an array of sound scraped beauty.
Auditory Assistance doesn’t rely on any one genre arch, instead, it packs a visceral punch from dark mechanical constructs to lighter IDM bits’n bytes, allowing the imprint to nurture a wide ranging “sound” without pigeonholing itself.
