Sound artists Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry collaborate to fuse elements of musique concrete, acoustic, and electronic music. By means of conceptual, experimental, and algorithmic recording and processing techniques the duo seek to expose a synergetic relationship between real world found sounds, acoustic instrumentation, and electronic sound design. The duo's creative amalgamation of these elements have created a moody and growing body of sound works including albums and installations.

So finally, to bring an end to the first series on Tokyo Droning, are my old mate Jeremy Bible and his old mate Jason Henry. There is so much I could say but it would speal off in all sorts of directions. OK, so first up Jeremy runs the awesome Experimedia label and store which he sent up with Jason ages ago, but then many of you would know that already. So how about a few things you might not expect? Jason's Halfadder moniker is some of the most fun electronica I have ever heard and 'Robots Will Love Religion' is still a household favourite, which is quite rare for me. Jeremy's solo release 'I Am Very Uncomfortable Most Of The Time' is a record that changed how I listen to music to a degree. The record is endlessly inventive, beautiful, dark, sad with lovely shades of light, crossing genres without even a hint of awkwardness in the process.

Since then, jbjh have moved on to release on such exceptional labels as Infraction, Gruenrekorder, Abgurd, Mystery Sea and Resting Bell to name a few. Their work is often done live so that they can feed of each other in a direct and open way. spc is an exceptional work focusing on beautiful high frequencies, white noise squalls and deep bass tones. The amazing thing about spc (as with all their recent work), is their inate ability to create an environment with the most minimal of sounds, a world which you enter and hear and see things in such a unique way. This encompassing quality is so rare in most works, and is even rarer when talking about rhythmic white and pink noise, distortion elements and the like, which envelope you like a rich blanket of sound. I know it might sound dark, and most times when such techniques and sources are used you would be right, but I dare you to enter the seemingly dark world of spc, and come out invigorated. It is one heck of a journey.

jbjh - spc2

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