Ex Geo “Memex”

23 Jan 2015 — Richard Greenan

This tape from anonymous newcomer Ex Geo has caught our ears. Out on London's Indole, Memex is described by label chief Jimmy Billingham – aka HOLOVR – as employing "warped tape loops, glitched CDrs and digital modular techniques in combination with layered, out-phased synth harmony – the sense of material/digital rupture of the former offset by the reflective ease of the latter."

The effect is of a robot vomiting, then crying. There's something seductive about the juxtaposition of thunderously twisted, unpredictable beats and wistful, meandering synths – the synthesis of rough and smooth, fast and slow, steely yet vulnerable.

Precious copies of Memex are still available. Indole have released a number of other intriguing tapes over the past week or so. Do yourself a favour and check the rest out here.