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STEM

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OOPS 08:11
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KOMOREBI 05:04
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CMP3 04:13
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SEN5241 08:11
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LIVE AT PESTE 18.12.22 (EXCERPT) 10:22
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Boomkat Product Review:
A second limited tape edition from Tom Knapp’s SDEM, projecting icy computer music thru R&B templates and stargazing drones, once again leaning into the more effortlessly funked aspects of Autechre’s post 2000’s work. Mad glow in the dark tape too.

On 'OOPS', Knapp snatches Timbaland's iconic beat for Tweet, interrupting its jerky flow with strings and ominous bass tones. In his hands, it’s transformed into a weightless, brushed exoskeleton, swung even further to accentuate the rhythm's connection to dancehall.

He drops the rhythm almost entirely on 'KOMOREBI' and 'CMP3', instead turning his attention to sculpted, elevated ambience. Not the kind of gear you'd find on a Brian Eno record, his industrial scrapings melt into plangent, cybernetic hums, propelled and regulated by the machines themselves.

Knapp returns to the rhythm zone on the deadly 'SEN5241', firing shell-shocked rimshots into pixelated, sub-heavy kicks and computerised distractions. And if you're still hungry for more, he's added a haunted ten-minute jam at Peste in Dec 22, complete with audience chatter heightening a peculiar end of days tension that runs through the tape.

Reel good stuff, once again.

Norman Records :
Another post-Vortices deep cuts selection from SKAM alumni SDEM - a varied snapshot taking in lop-sided Timbaland meets dancehall headnod, crystalline synths, acousmatic electroid crackle, ED-209 hip-hop sludge and an epic room mic’d live track culled from a SKAM xmas party at Peste bar in Salford.

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released February 3, 2023

SOUNDS : SDEM
ART : SVVN

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Steeped in Hiphop and Northern England's post-bleep and industrial mutations, Tom Knapp's SDEM project sits in its own idiosyncratic lane.
Caught as live takes, the tracks grow according to their own internal logic, inhabiting forms rooted as much in the hands-on manipulations of
music concreté & noise as the
studio-as-instrument innovations of electro and dub. ... more

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