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USA BASED ARTIST WILLIAM MALK, ALSO KNOWN AS KOMPRESS0R, CAPTURES THE RAW AND IMMERSIVE ENERGY OF TECHNO. HIS SOUND EVOKES SMOKE FILLED WAREHOUSES, BRICK WALLS, FLASHING LIGHTS, AND THE DEEP PULSE OF BASS BENEATH TOWERING SPEAKER STACKS. EACH TRACK BECOMES A DELIBERATE ACT OF PROVOCATION AND CONTROL.

INFLUENCED BY THE GENRE’S AMERICAN MIDWEST ORIGINS AND ITS GLOBAL EVOLUTION, KOMPRESS0R DRAWS FROM FIGURES SUCH AS GESAFFELSTEIN, DVS1, BRITISH MURDER BOYS, THE HACKER, AND BELIEF DEFECT. HE COMBINES VINTAGE SYNTHS WITH MODERN PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES TO BUILD HYPNOTIC, PROGRESSIVE SOUNDSCAPES. HIS MUSIC BRIDGES THE TENSION BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT, BODY AND MACHINE.

GUIDED BY AVANT GARDE MOVEMENTS LIKE DADA AND SURREALISM, KOMPRESS0R TREATS COMPOSITION AS BOTH EXPERIMENT AND PHILOSOPHY. HIS WORK EMBRACES ABSTRACTION, UNPREDICTABILITY, AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS. EVERY PERFORMANCE BECOMES A LIVING EXPERIENCE, NOT A SIMPLE SET. THROUGH SOUND, LIGHT, AND RESTRAINT, KOMPRESS0R PUSHES TECHNO FORWARD. TRANSFORMING IT INTO AN ONGOING EXPLORATION OF ART, EMOTION, AND DESIGN.