Exclusive new track: McDead – Technical College

A track so fresh it’s not out until tomorrow. Here’s McDead’s new experimental techno single Technical College.

As a reminder McDead is a London born experimental music producer and archaeologist, based in Melbourne, Australia. His work is part IDM techno, part shoegaze and a dash of guitar psychedelia.

New single Technical College is heavy on the IDM techno and lighter on the shoegaze. I rather prefer it that way. As for the track title, he explains that it’s “A nod to McDead’s ‘Technical College‘ in Colchester that gave him a second chance… after a very shaky start.”

Musically, Technical College is happy to dig its own path. It burrows away in a minimal IDM way. It’s an idiosyncratic take, putting the tech into Technical College perhaps.

Beats have an 80s Spartan easy to them with the depth added by a firm bass with a hint of funk. There’s a bit of electronic trickery and voices come and go in manipulated waves. There’s a lot of the Warp mid- 90s sense of experimentation.

Technical College avoids easy hooks and forces you to grapple with constantly shifting patterns of sound with a squall of electronic rhythmic noise offering the closes to something hummable. And yet its wilfulness is its strength.

A track that does what it wants, how it wants. Let it take you back to college for a lesson in techno as an experimental art form.

~ by acidted on March 28, 2024.