A rehearsal room tucked behind a gym calledSisu. A microphone hanging from the ceiling. That's where most of these raw hardware jams bySleep Mathewwere captured—live jams on MPC, Casio RZ-1 and Yamaha TG-33, captured with all their imperfections intact. Some were recorded straight to mono with patch notes scribbled on paper, echoing the spirit of '70s Tangerine Dream. Others came from treating the DAW itself as an instrument, each render producing a different, unrepeatable version.
The music is inspired by '90s computer-free techno and the rougher strains of Dutch and American rhythm traditions, with touchpoints including Terrence Dixon, Jamal Moss, Ellis De Havilland, Delroy Edwards and Scan 7. Cold Blow's Janne once called parts of it "Actress-like," which amused the artist—Sleep Mathew hadn't encountered Actress until recently. But the comparison clicks: Actress, too, wanders deliberately along the edge of wrongness, a space where Sleep Mathew feels most at home.
The music is inspired by '90s computer-free techno and the rougher strains of Dutch and American rhythm traditions, with touchpoints including Terrence Dixon, Jamal Moss, Ellis De Havilland, Delroy Edwards and Scan 7. Cold Blow's Janne once called parts of it "Actress-like," which amused the artist—Sleep Mathew hadn't encountered Actress until recently. But the comparison clicks: Actress, too, wanders deliberately along the edge of wrongness, a space where Sleep Mathew feels most at home.
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