Go to the woods. Plug it into the trees. Let it warm up. An organic drum machine. And old power line that powered peoples lives and eventually drove them mad. Years later, still juiced up, random beats, forgotten loops, all day long. Whose drum machine was that anyway?

Electronica soundscapist Jerome Alexander’s project “Message to bears” has been released, on a leash, on “EP1″ and I am reliably informed, recently signed to an uber-cool swedish underground label. I made the uber-cool bit up. But it’s gotta be hasn’t it.

Electronica that doesn’t make me wince. Instrumentals that do more than float aimlessly looking for a place to roost, or trying to get your attention by flashing and spashing you with isolated and losts sounds. This is just a current, a jet-stream, it moves you - not in the “it moved me to tears” half-emotion. No this is surreal, and dynamic.

There’s no pretense, and it certainly doesn’t sound underground - this is open to the fresh air. Resonating through all sorts of frequencies that I really don’t understand.

MP3: Message about Bears - Found and you’re Safe

http://www.myspace.com/messagetobears

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