box - i will let you down [pertin-nce_024]

A new free EP of weird techno tracks by Box (Jeremy Bible) is out now on the Pertin-nce label as a free download.

box - i will let you down [pertin-nce_024]

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"Box is the occasional dance music side project of prolific sound artist Jeremy Bible. The project first emerged with 2005's Core EP, a three tracker of intricate minimal electro workouts on Bible's Experimedia label, which includes bonus remixes by Halfadder, Phase For Stereo, and Milieu. This time around I Will Let You Down flexes the techno muscle and contains the first vocal tracks since Bible's electro project from 2002 under the guise of Helen Keller. I Will Let You Down is an homage to frustration and disappointment with societal expectations, narrow mindedness, and mass media induced popular opinion. This sentiment is most apparent on the EP's titular track where Bible sarcastically rants "I will let you down, if you let me let you down" over shuffling techno beats containing percussion built from vocal snippets, awkwardly funky electro influenced basslines, and melancholic string melodies reminiscent of those heard on Jeremy Bible's 2006 modern classic of experimental electronica, I Am Very Uncomfortable Most of The Time. I Come in Pieces continues the EP incorporating many of the aforementioned elements. Kicking things off with slowly evolving droning techno rhythm and bass, ticking and shuffling along, while blips, bleeps, toms, strange effected vocal fragments, and hissing hi hat rolls build towards the last breakdown which returns with a barrage of processed vocal glitches and fx over the now fully exposed hard and broken rhythm creating an almost industrial feel. Next in line is the minimal and subsonic I Want to Explode. A swinging beat with low dragging bass, bouncing synths, and more processed vocals create a strange and original otherworldly techno sound. The EP is capped off with a purely instrumental version of I Will Let You Down. As a bonus DJs and producers alike are invited to freely download, remix, and abuse an Ableton Live pack containing the stems for the title track, I Will Let You Down. Jeremy Bible's current efforts are heavily focused towards avant-garde/electro-acoustic/musique concrète sound art compositions with primary collaborator Jason Henry aka Halfadder. The output from this collaborative endeavor in 2008 alone has seen and handful of releases on multiple international labels. In addition to his work as a sound artist, Jeremy Bible operates, again with Jason Henry, the respected recording label and arts organization Experimedia. As for Bible's Box project further explorations into off kilter dance music are planned, working its way into even further minimal territory, building upon raw sine wave tones and sounds generated through the conversion of database files to create odd and raw minimal rhythmic structures."