XLR8R (US)

Brooklyn-based Taylor Deupree continues on Occur to make a respectable name for himself in the microsound community. The premise for this release is that the quiet, unstructured pops, clicks, bass moans and minimal atmospheric sounds capture the essence of true ambient noise – that is, the random, unsequenced machine and urban sounds that most people filter our from their interactions with the world. The sound, meditated as it is, of cars wisping by outside, of leaves dancing by the hundreds across the lawn in the fall. Delicate and seemingly fractured, Occur will be followed within the year by a highly repetitive analog, Stil. – heath k. highnight