Fresh-faced Scouser John Heckle is really quite an astonishing producer of carpet-burn-raw house and techno. His tripped-out-to-fuck music sounds like he takes a lot of hallucinogenic drugs but I'm assured he's a clean cut kind of guy.
'Ahead of Time', below, from a 2011 Mathematics release, is enthusiastically unhinged and deeply unstable. Definitely veering into the interesting end of the experimental spectrum. His debut album has grown-up a touch and stabilised somewhat (the right meds, perhaps). It's got the most incredible lo-fi production and astonishing tracks all. over. it. I wanted to upload 'Atomic Response' but it's not on Youtube so here are the hypnotic 'Red Defender' and the surprisingly uplifting,synthy disco-y (French-Kiss-ey) 'The Voyageur (Voyeur)', both from the album (which I've actually already written about for the blog but I just wanted to post about his stuff again).
The story of getting to signed to Mathematics Recordings, apparently - he went up to Jamal Moss/Hieroglyphic Being in a club with a demo, HB was less than interested but took the tape without saying anything. A few months later, an A4 envelope arrived at Mr Heckle's residence, inside - Mathematics Recordings contracts for signing. No fucking about, then!
(disclaim-- John Heckle's done loads of other tracks, these are just some that I particularly like)
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