Reform is the first work by Stave. The album is an exercise in precision and spacialization, with isolated electronics and icy beats producing a grisaille of vaporized metals.
Tracks move from disembodied murk and blunted pulses to sustained forcefulness. Touch points include techno, ambient and industrial predecessors, all bent gravitationally towards a dark, cold and unsettling soundworld.
Based in Chicago, Stave is the solo project of Jonathan Krohn who also collaborates in the group Male.
FSS has manufactured a limited edition of 200 LPs, each packaged in hand screened, die-cut covers with a download code.
Mastered and cut to lacquer at Chicago Mastering Service by Shelly Steffens.
Grinding, noisy and decidedly cavernous, "Tower9" slots Stave in amongst contemporary techno/drone botherers Vatican Shadow, Container and even Raime, but listen closer and you'll hear that Krohn's influences are a little further into the past. "Tower9" takes the Muslimgauze imprint (punishing overdriven loops, decaying samples, off-key drones) and fuses it with the rhythmic sensibility of an early, Analogue Bubblebath-era Richard D. James and comes up with a sound that while capturing the zeitgeist, manages to stand out pretty easily. FACT April 8, 2012
Tracks move from disembodied murk and blunted pulses to sustained forcefulness. Touch points include techno, ambient and industrial predecessors, all bent gravitationally towards a dark, cold and unsettling soundworld.
Based in Chicago, Stave is the solo project of Jonathan Krohn who also collaborates in the group Male.
FSS has manufactured a limited edition of 200 LPs, each packaged in hand screened, die-cut covers with a download code.
Mastered and cut to lacquer at Chicago Mastering Service by Shelly Steffens.
Grinding, noisy and decidedly cavernous, "Tower9" slots Stave in amongst contemporary techno/drone botherers Vatican Shadow, Container and even Raime, but listen closer and you'll hear that Krohn's influences are a little further into the past. "Tower9" takes the Muslimgauze imprint (punishing overdriven loops, decaying samples, off-key drones) and fuses it with the rhythmic sensibility of an early, Analogue Bubblebath-era Richard D. James and comes up with a sound that while capturing the zeitgeist, manages to stand out pretty easily. FACT April 8, 2012
TRACK LISTING
1) The Fear
2) Stave
3) Tower9
4) Gun Control
5) Reform
6) Disc1
7) Minus3