Black Box:
MATHEW JONSON live (Wagon Repair/Itiswhatitis/Minus/CA)
PATRICK BATEMAN (Tic Tac Toe/Connect Four)
BLAGGER (Perspectiv Records/Connect Four)
Red Box:
JEAN VON BADEN & MASHTI (Amor Rec.)
White Box:
ALIN & GUNNAR
Mathew Jonson really is one of a kind. He's developed one of the most distinctive voices in electronic dance music: when you hear one of Jonson's tracks, you almost immediately know it's his. And yet there's no mistaking any given track for another.
His music offers a rare ...
Black Box:
MATHEW JONSON live (Wagon Repair/Itiswhatitis/Minus/CA)
PATRICK BATEMAN (Tic Tac Toe/Connect Four)
BLAGGER (Perspectiv Records/Connect Four)
Red Box:
JEAN VON BADEN & MASHTI (Amor Rec.)
White Box:
ALIN & GUNNAR
Mathew Jonson really is one of a kind. He's developed one of the most distinctive voices in electronic dance music: when you hear one of Jonson's tracks, you almost immediately know it's his. And yet there's no mistaking any given track for another.
His music offers a rare fusion of populist intensities and nuanced musicality. With a keen understanding for the needs of the dance floor and the universal laws of house and techno, he's thrown out the rule book time and time again, sneaking tricks learned from electro and even drum'n'bass into minimal clubs, and loading up his B-sides with tracks that do what they damned well please. (No kick drum? No problem.)
His standards for sound and presentation are exacting. Both on stage and in the studio, Jonson's fealty to analog equipment and real-time playing; as opposed to mere layback-serves as a standard bearer for a kind of electronic music that goes way beyond the drag 'n' drop world of digital composition. Jonson has always been eager to get his hands dirty, and the music reflects that in gnarled bass sequences and long, intuitive lines. His sounds have serious teeth.
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