JPLS
PROGRAM 1
Minus44
12 Inch
PROGRAM 1 sets precedent for bass and distortion by giving zero respect to gravity with its displaced click-clock. The plane is minimal, creeping and crawling behind disorientating moves. PROGRAM 3 bumps and pans around unpadded walls, snapping and reversing itself into a Twilight Zone episode of darkness. Closing out the session is PROGRAM 2, a ten-minute throb that echoes with dulled-snares, muted hi-hats and tone pulses that allow the bass in as the melody. Influences of Hawtin s Concept 1 and Plastikman (Closer-era) projects float along, but JPLS (aka Jeremy Jacobs) draws his own perspective with subtle lines, disjointed rhythm and evolving surprises of tone