Artist: Freeform
Genre(s):
Ambient
Discography:
Pattern Tub
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
London's Simon Pyke releases angular, well-nigh algorithmic experimental electro under the nominate Freeform. Expanding on the rhythmical and percussive elements of a style first earnestly chased by artists such as Coil, Autechre, and RAC, Pyke's Freeform corporeal is at times even more lab coat than the supra, playing dense, sparking rhythmical figures cancelled one some other in building complex, shifting patterns that do to indicate ambient, experimental electro, techno, dub, and industrial all at formerly. After cathartic an album on Ambient Soho theatre label Worm Interface and a stunning EP on Skam (co-owned by Autechre and quick becoming unmatchable of future electronica's most popular scouting-grounds), Pyke was snapped up by Sheffield's Warp label in 1995. His Warp debut, a dual 12-inch/CD-EP entitled Prowl, was a mix of the filthy experimental fracture of his previous Skam work and the more hi-res, circuitous electro-lounge of Warp and Clear artists such as Plaid, Gregory Fleckner Quintet, and Dr. Rockit. Although he never followed up with a uncut for the tag, Pyke contributed a new runway to a promo-only cassette compilation given out by Warp during a European label hitch, as well as to the 1996 Worm Interface compilation, Frequencies. After his second album for WI, 1997's Heterarchy, he released threesome albums in three long time for trey labels: Headphone (Pattern Tub), Sprawl (Me Shape), and Sub Rosa (Green Park).
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