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.
Tag: Paul Healy
Somatic Responses :: Algorythm of Hate (Photon Emissions)
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.
Somatic Responses :: Doomsday Conduit (Acroplane)
A powerful collection of tempered electronics that assimilates parallel genres to form the dynamic duo’s recognizable groove.
Somatic Responses :: Psychic Artillery (Self Released)
Psychic Artillery is simply the epicenter of deconstructed industrial electronics, and it’s great to see this outfit continue to master it.
V/A :: Auditory Assistance (Welsh Modular Alliance / Photon Emissions)
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.
Somatic Responses :: Return to Abnormal (Self Released)
Just below its petrified experimental shell is a groove that simply obliterates sound space and captures these ears once again.
Somatic Responses :: The Dogma of Function EP (Errorgrid)
An otherwise turbulent and top-notch collection from one of the pioneering duos in the corrosive electronic music field. Flickering dark synth notes running at max […]
Somatic Responses :: Assault (RIOT Radio)
Between each pounding bass drum is a maze of twisted modular madness. Assault is a great example of an album being exactly what you’d expect, […]
Somatic Responses :: The Decision Tree (Acroplane)
Somatic Responses nails it with their slant on groovy, noised-infused, rhythmic industrial-acid abstraction. Somatic Responses is back full-force with their long-standing electronic fury on The […]
Somatic Responses :: Pattern Seeking (Hymen)
Pattern Seeking continues to unfurl the duo’s (over) 20-yr skill-set and their unique ability to create corrosive experimental machine music. Augmented by energetic melodic jolts and […]
Somatic Responses :: 109ResCloud (Photon Emissions)
Gritty, flickering, atmospheric haze is in full effect—dystopian and replete with wide open spaces, vacant echoes and rusty shards—109ResCloud is a dense, industrial-synth/drone album with […]

















