The Fracture is an American electronic duo comprised of J Young and Jordan Gilliam. Formed in 2020 as a long-distance collaboration from the two producer’s studios in Bellingham Washington and Grand Rapids Michigan, The Fracture creates instrumental music that recalls the height of late 90’s trip-hop and fuses delay and reverb drenched post-rock riffs against a lush atmospheric backdrop . The two shared guitar duties in the early 00’ post-metalcore band Unition until J’s departure for the west coast at which time Jordan continued on briefly with Still Remains (Roadrunner Records). After a hiatus of almost 20 years from creating music together, The Fracture sees the two artists reunited in this project that melds a broad range of influences they share including Massive Attack, Team Sleep, The XX, If These Trees Could Talk, and Radiohead. 
   The debut album slated for release in 2021 features guest appearances by Evan Willey (Still Remains) and Michael Kok on Violin. The Fracture is currently working on scoring a documentary film short and plans to do more film scoring in the near future.

06 - FALLING INTO ATLANTIS

05 - UNDER THE UMBRELLA

04 - NIGHT STANDS

03 - FULL BREAK

02 - THEWEEKDAY

01 - ANCHOR THE NIGHT

I've worked on this track on and off for over 3 years and kept coming back to it because of those 3 simple, hypnotic guitar chords.

Twins

twins edit (final master)

I wrote this song on my acoustic guitar and recorded the main riffs with my iPhone like I usually do so I don't wouldn't forget it.  After trying to recreate it about 4 times and failing to capture the right sound, I ended up using the original iPhone recordings and built the whole track around them.

Haunted By Your Own Ghost

One of my favorite ways to write is to envision that I am sound tracking for a car commercial. This is track drips with Underworld influences and I cant do anything about it, nor do I care. Modern piano infused Electronica with a catchy Acid hook infuse this mid-tempo instrumental track. Features chill verse sections with organic piano elements and Acid style build-ups.

Apex Introvert

Sandy beaches and hidden paths through the palm trees = clean electric guitar hooks over minimalist house beats. Gentle risers create a storyline flow. This track would be perfect for use in travel, reality plot lines, or runway fashion.  Organic piano melodies lace the reprise of the "A" section around 1:50 leading to a new clean guitar loop at 2:30 that subtly builds to an epic release of tension to the journey.

Agency

New re-cut of an older track i wrote while vacationing in Nuevo Vallarta. Dark and moody tension track with a tropical / Latin vibe.Would work great for a placement in a travel channel transition & dramatic plot lines looking for a nocturnal element or light suspense.

Mexico

Here's an older song from 2004. The acoustic guitar is played by my old roomate back in Seattle Brendon Stewart.  I sampled it from a recording we did together in a band called The Stockton Syndrome. The rest of the programming is all done in Reason and the other electric guitars are me too.   

A New Surface

Pop-top

Post-rock and ethereal Shoegaze guitars battle a huge drum kit over atmospheric dream pop sounds to create a dark and laid back groove.

Antimatter

-CRAFT BEATS, ARTISIAN RIFFS- 
  My name is J Young and I primarily focus on producing original instrumental works available for sync licensing, exlclusive and non-exclusive production music libraries. I have been writing, recording, performing, and producing original music since 1995.

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