SeixlacK ­- Bed Bug Bites

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  • About this time last year, Fernando Seixlack was sitting on two fairly significant cassette releases. One was a live recording for L.A. Club Resource as Innsyter, and the other was a collaborative projest for Thingamajicks' Subsubtropics Records, called Jammmmmms. The Innsyter tape was 60-odd minutes of gnarled, dilapidated drum machine abuse; Jammmmmms was a far more sunny affair, recorded at home with fellow São Paulo artist Pedro Zopelar. In a recent RA interview, L.A. Club Resource's Henoch Moore said that the label (which has since released Innsyter's debut album) tended towards a bedroom production style, defined by an "experimental, creative approach" and a "resourcefulness." Indeed, Seixlack's productions are homespun, his style is defiant—qualities that make both sides of his output so commanding. His latest record, Bed Bug Bites, is a set of mangled, lo-fi club jams with their own deviant sense of beauty. "Taxes" points to where Innsyter's acerbic, techno-punk material comes from, with the grot of an old Den Haag squat record and a warm, floating synth that counters the acid grunge. The rest of the EP has more in common with Jammmmmms' bright, freewheeling machine funk; the rackety "Wintergreen" and electro-licked "Sofazone" are particular highlights.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Taxes A2 Amolado B1 Wintergreen B2 Sofazone
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