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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Monday, 27 August 2012
Monday, 22 August 2011
John Heckle - The Second Son
John Heckle's album The Second Son was released on Jamal Moss' Mathematics Label at the end of last month. It's completely astounding.
The tracks are well varied, from Moroder-esque driving euphoria to tripped out house, seriously sick acid synth lines, library music-esque chillers and the fiercest beats you never heard on FHXE. What all the tracks have in common is their powerfully raw immediacy. It's engulfing, hypnotic and moreish, but the best thing about it is the roughly hewn sound - messy, insistent and powerfully visceral.
There's a nod to Little Louie in one of the early tracks, excited female breathing and a slow down speed up a la French Kiss, and the FXHE comparison already made, but whilst influences are felt across the album they're not calling the shots. With not a single weak moment, this is an absolute stormer of an album, varied but coherent and rich enough to satisfy listen after listen (in my case, one straight after the other).
Basically, it's well boss, go listen to it.
The tracks are well varied, from Moroder-esque driving euphoria to tripped out house, seriously sick acid synth lines, library music-esque chillers and the fiercest beats you never heard on FHXE. What all the tracks have in common is their powerfully raw immediacy. It's engulfing, hypnotic and moreish, but the best thing about it is the roughly hewn sound - messy, insistent and powerfully visceral.There's a nod to Little Louie in one of the early tracks, excited female breathing and a slow down speed up a la French Kiss, and the FXHE comparison already made, but whilst influences are felt across the album they're not calling the shots. With not a single weak moment, this is an absolute stormer of an album, varied but coherent and rich enough to satisfy listen after listen (in my case, one straight after the other).
Basically, it's well boss, go listen to it.
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