- A cancer diagnosis leads a professor to indulge his love of techno, with brilliant results—he's a natural.
- DD is the project of Dr. David Madden, a screen arts professor at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. After a diagnosis (and successful treatment) of thyroid cancer in 2017, he decided to indulge a long-time love of techno, which helped him reconnect with a body and physicality he had become alienated from .The resulting, long and winding album (and title track) is stunning on first listen—it sounds so intuitive you'd never guess he was a neophyte.
Opening the album with a syncopated, thudding kick drum, "Fingers In Front Of Eyes" quickly becomes an array of pneumatic sounds and hydraulic pumps: percussive noises that sound like pistons, pinging sonar sounds, the vaguest hint of a vamping chord and what sounds like a gated human grunt. These little flickers of melody are tantalizing but fleeting, wisely leaving the track's core, funky skeleton intact. If Madden is already making techno like this on the first go, then the future looks bright for his new chapter