It’s either the geekiest homage to musical idols ever conceived or the calling card of a musical genius: A Pleasure (the moniker of NYC producer Mark Hurst) has just announced his debut album called Jream House, and it features tracks built off drum patterns that Hurst created by devising a mathematical formula to convert some of his favorite band names into ones and zeros and then beats. Turning math theory into chaos theory, Hurst then jams over the drum patterns with some pretty non-traditional instruments like bowed cymbals, blowtorch on aluminium, and even a bass guitar to yield results described as “walls of noise, monolithic basslines and any other jam-yielded shrapnel.”
The results will speak for themselves, when Jream House is released January 22 via Nicolas Jaar’s Other People label (which just announced a residency at Trans-Pecos). You can extrapolate the probability of this album being totally awesome via the lead single “Slow Channel” below:
Or you can even remove several factors of chance and probability in determining the relative kick-assedness of the project by sampling seven remixes of tracks off Jream House.
Jream House tracklist:
01. Durutti Gottsching
02. Arthur Russel
03. The Order of Things
04. Grace
05. Idoru
06. Slow Channel
07. Am Me Evol Eye
More about: A Pleasure, Mark Hurst
