Electronic music made on hardware by one person in a room has a specific texture that software cannot fake, and the current wave of it is being driven largely by artists who release on tiny labels and cassette runs that sell out before most people hear about them. This is one of those projects — dense, rhythmic, closer to club music than to ambient but not quite either, built live rather than triggered. Sets change substantially from night to night because the material is genuinely improvised within a structure. The audience is small, knowledgeable, and tends to stand very close to the equipment. Out in the high desert on a Thursday the whole thing takes on a different character; the room is wooden and warm and nothing about it says nightclub. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Corners of music this small survive because a handful of people in each city keep showing up and telling the next person.
Electronic music made on hardware by one person in a room has a specific texture that software cannot fake, and the current wave of it is being driven largely by artists who release on tiny labels and cassette runs that sell out before most people hear about them. This is one of those projects — dense, rhythmic, closer to club music than to ambient but not quite either, built live rather than triggered. Sets change substantially from night to night because the material is genuinely improvised within a structure. The audience is small, knowledgeable, and tends to stand very close to the equipment. Out in the high desert on a Thursday the whole thing takes on a different character; the room is wooden and warm and nothing about it says nightclub. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Corners of music this small survive because a handful of people in each city keep showing up and telling the next person.
Electronic music made on hardware by one person in a room has a specific texture that software cannot fake, and the current wave of it is being driven largely by artists who release on tiny labels and cassette runs that sell out before most people hear about them. This is one of those projects — dense, rhythmic, closer to club music than to ambient but not quite either, built live rather than triggered. Sets change substantially from night to night because the material is genuinely improvised within a structure. The audience is small, knowledgeable, and tends to stand very close to the equipment. Out in the high desert on a Thursday the whole thing takes on a different character; the room is wooden and warm and nothing about it says nightclub. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Corners of music this small survive because a handful of people in each city keep showing up and telling the next person.