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O'ROURKE, JIM — Too Compliment
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DDS catch enduringly absorbing sonic alchemist Jim ORourke at his knottiest and most ingenious in a wormholing suite of amorphous rhythm and psychedelic electronics a massive RIYL Autechre, Roland Kayn, Bernard Parmegiani, NYZ, Keith Fullerton Whitman.
Playing up to and into DDS freeform aesthetics, ORourke renders 40 minutes shearing hyaline synth tones and ruptured rhythm generated at his Steamroom facilities in Tokyo, a modular out-zone trawling that harks back to his iconic Mego releases and some of the more recent Steamroom experiments. Its an ideal addition to the ever expanding DDS cosmos, following Demdikes recent Drum Machine expo with a slice of purist and screwed modular magick that transcends early electronics and modern styles in pursuit of musical sensations that defy stylistic brackets.
Too Compliment was assembled using a bespoke Hordijk modular system, a rare West Coast-style setup hand made by Dutch engineer Rob Hordijk. ORourke focuses on the frequency shifter here, using it to coax out fluxing tone thickets, haphazard frequencies and elongated drone corridors. Its transportive stuff, harking back to the early days of private press academic synth music but also sitting on edge alongside Autechres recent long-form work, as well as ORourkes classic Im Happy, And Im Singing, And A 1, 2, 3, 4
In ORourkes hands, the mass of electronics takes on throbbing, organic dimensions, congealing grey matter and purplish veins of fluid in viscous transitions that glisten and spark with invention as they form new tissue. What comes out is as unearthly as the earliest electronic music, but also blessed with a psychedelc spirit in a way thats long kept ORourke right out on his own, teetering between paradigms yet never settling into any single style. If youve always been keen on finding a way into that sprawling soundworld, Too Compliment is a perfect entry point into a highly rewarding creative macrocosm.
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Playing up to and into DDS freeform aesthetics, ORourke renders 40 minutes shearing hyaline synth tones and ruptured rhythm generated at his Steamroom facilities in Tokyo, a modular out-zone trawling that harks back to his iconic Mego releases and some of the more recent Steamroom experiments. Its an ideal addition to the ever expanding DDS cosmos, following Demdikes recent Drum Machine expo with a slice of purist and screwed modular magick that transcends early electronics and modern styles in pursuit of musical sensations that defy stylistic brackets.
Too Compliment was assembled using a bespoke Hordijk modular system, a rare West Coast-style setup hand made by Dutch engineer Rob Hordijk. ORourke focuses on the frequency shifter here, using it to coax out fluxing tone thickets, haphazard frequencies and elongated drone corridors. Its transportive stuff, harking back to the early days of private press academic synth music but also sitting on edge alongside Autechres recent long-form work, as well as ORourkes classic Im Happy, And Im Singing, And A 1, 2, 3, 4
In ORourkes hands, the mass of electronics takes on throbbing, organic dimensions, congealing grey matter and purplish veins of fluid in viscous transitions that glisten and spark with invention as they form new tissue. What comes out is as unearthly as the earliest electronic music, but also blessed with a psychedelc spirit in a way thats long kept ORourke right out on his own, teetering between paradigms yet never settling into any single style. If youve always been keen on finding a way into that sprawling soundworld, Too Compliment is a perfect entry point into a highly rewarding creative macrocosm.
https://boomkat.com/products/too-compliment