Screen Shadow - HEXXEX

HEXXEX (B-STOCK)

12 Inch

Scrnxxxshdw / SCRNXXXSHDW02

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Screen Shadow is an amorphous presence slithering through electronic music’s dark, jagged and dreamy corridors. Emerging this January with a duo of debut EPs, Black (Vegan Tinder Lord) and White (Hexxex) , the shadowy project blends pummelling techno, industrial grit and experimental noise for a mood-spanning sound inspired by everything from Google Street View to visiting the dentist.

The Black EP gleans from the heavier end of the club music spectrum, plunging into a hardcore well of nosebleed kicks and synapse-frying synths that bang with raw dancefloor energy. The White EP pauses for reflection, transforming Screen Shadow’s spiky reveries into tightly-woven technicolor dreamscapes.

Track highlights include the humour-spiced, pitch-shifted “Vegan Tinder
Lord”—immortalised by its disembodied, Amnesia Scanner-esque voice—and the percussive, hardstyle-tinged assault course of “Scanna Hex”. Inspired by the unpleasant act of a dentist drilling a tooth cavity, “Bodies” burrows deep into your brain, while the glitchy experimentalism of “Corridor” gets under your skin. "Pathway” and “Time Orphans” mine deep ambient soundscapes, with the former built from creaking synths and the latter built from rich orchestral tones.


Screen Shadow tries to envision how the music will sound before going into production, working from a hardware-packed studio that’s equipped with a mechanical modular synth built to spec by Dutch electronics wizard Gijs Gieskes, along with a raft of other analog synths that favour imperfection over digital gloss.

Across the two EPs, vocals are processed and reshaped into other sounds using the sculpture-primed Nord modulars. These ‘90s instruments have since been discontinued, but remain a staple in the Screen Shadow studio and the upcoming live setup.

By using anonymity as a practical device, Screen Shadow allows the music to take the limelight. “It’s not even about wanting to create a deliberate mystique, it’s just about keeping the information transfer as clear and pure as possible…personalities just get in the way at the moment.”
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04.03.2020
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08.04.2020

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