Epoq
Scintilla
(Surgery)
Epoq is Sydney-based music student Jonathon Gage, who creates a bizarrely unsettling form of IDM. The elements are the familiar synth pads and programmed drums (with occasional sampled voices), but nothing sits quite right: the time signatures are either very odd or just change all the time, and the beats don’t necessarily match up with the other sounds. But you get the sense that it’s impeccably constructed – it doesn’t sound random, just somewhat disturbed. It has the ambience of early Aphex Twin or Global Communication, but it’s filtered through something Other. It’s also very well produced, with plenty of thought put into the spatial aspects, making for a fully immersive alien experience. Very cool stuff indeed. A considerable number of mp3s are available for download via his website.
Peter Hollo |
