Restrained freakout sonics and subcranial rhythms from the Chennai-based @icarus-redux — “earth-moving kicks, baleful, eyes-dilated synths, and rough, mostly unsampled breakbeats. Fog machine bathing all as one.”
Inspired as an artist by a mixed bag of artists and theorists that cast light on the darkness - Fisher, Graeber, Preciado, Shadow, Thaemlitz, Tiqqun, Weatherall - an Icarus Redux mix (of which there are many amazing ones on their Soundcloud) has a distinct ebb and flow, often reminding me of early cut-and-paste techniques or Richie Hawtin’s Decks x EFX mixes that reassemble contexts on a micro-level, not just layering tracks over each other but reconstructing them. highlighting the spaces between the notes, the snatches of memory that flit through your brain.
A lot of the tracks from the early 2010s are records I remember hearing and playing when I lived in Leeds, which I had associated with a very different scene that I naively believed at the time would never truly take off Stateside. At the same time, Disclosure were getting big then and I thought the US would pass them over - from downloading italo and house rips off of Bicep's old blog to seeing them headline warehouses in Brooklyn that charge $40+ admission (both Disclosure and Bicep, at this rate it's probably $60+...mais je divague).
Bianca Scout - Kingdom [2022, First Terrace]
Herbert - Deeper (Basic Soul Unit Remix) [2016, Curle]
T++ - Dig [2010, Honest Jons]
Avatism - Self Control [2017, Vakant]
Basic Soul Unit - Jak'd Freq (A Made Up Sound - Puur Natuur Mix) [2010, Crème Organization]
Ayln - Victim [2018, Nous]
Tenebre - Axe Nord-Sud [2018, WNCL Recordings]
Reckonwrong - Morton [2015, Pinkman]
Taraval - Bart's Sanctuary [2016, Text]
Blawan - Iddy [2010, Hessle Audio]
Martyn - Body Music [2018, Dolly Dubs]
Pugilist - Déjà Vu [2022, Banoffee Pies]
Ryan James Ford - Brixa Endt [2018, SHUT]
Shed - Lumber Fix TT [2018, The Final Experiment]
Private Press - Wetweird [2022, Of Paradise White Label]
Clark - Superscope [2014, Warp]
Andrea - Rainbow [2015, Ilian Tape]
Glaskin - Grey Lines [2018, Hotflush]
