One thing that always amazes me about music is how new stuff gets written every day. With a handful of notes, artists still manage to create new songs and tunes and only occasionally do you hear something and think, “That sounds like…”.
Some artists look beyond the usual music scale and find other ways to push the musical boundaries. Nowhere is this more evident than in electronica where the beeps and whistles of the everyday can be transformed into music that sounds futuristic, otherworldy and sometimes, distinctly odd. One only has to look at artists like Aphex Twin and Daft Punk to see where the music can take you.
Jacob 2-2 is a Brooklyn-based producer who is beginning to show a talent in this direction. With just 2 EPs to his name, “Cabazon”, where this track comes from and “Gifted Child”, released last year, he is already catching the attention of names like Com Truise. Both EPs display his exceptional talents of making lush soundscapes out of those electronic sounds and samples.
Listening to some of the tracks is like eavesdropping on computers chatting away to each other whilst others have fantastic little dance beats and rhythms that you can’t help doing freaky little robotic dances to.
“Brainstorms” is one of the danceable tracks and it reminded in places of my old ZX Spectrum. A positive cornucopia of bleeps, beeps, whirrs and whistles over a funky backing this is full on, Friday night at the computer nightclub, dance music. If he releases it as a single and it doesn’t have a collection of old personal computers breakdancing there’s no justice in the world.
Head on over to his bandcamp page to download the EPs and keep an eye on this one.
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