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As if looking at an old film reel through a microscope, Singlest fills his compostions with binary particles and grainy fallout, creating vivid and often fragile structures.
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With the explosion of music-making software programs in the late '90s, practically anybody can create CD-Rs in the privacy of his/her domicile. Of course, most of these DIYers deserve the oblivion that is their natural destiny, but a tiny fraction have forged compelling patterns out of their gear's 0s and 1s. One such bedroom producer is Singlest, a hard-working citizen living in one of Detroit's western suburbs who also writes about music for publications both glossy and online. Untainted by formal musical training, Singlest gets by on his innately keen judgment about what sounds interesting.
Using pirated shareware programs, Singlest designs austere digital sound that could be right at home on respected labels such as 12k, Touch, Raster-Noton and Mille Plateaux. While some of those imprints' output can be aridly academic-sounding, Singlest's work is more playful. As with all microsound releases, headphones are mandatory to fully perceive 5k Mind's textural grit and grain; the music's surprising movements through the stereo spectrum; and the myriad aural data that fluctuate between insectoid and mechanical.
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- Dave Segal, Alternative Press
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