Freeform

London’s Simon Pyke produces angular, almost algorithmic experimental electro beneath the name Freeform. Growing around the rhythmic and percussive components of a style 1st significantly pursued by performers such as for example Coil, Autechre, and RAC, Pyke’s Freeform materials is at occasions a lot more lab-coat compared to the above, playing thick, sparking rhythmic numbers off each other in complex, moving patterns that have the ability to recommend ambient, experimental electro, techno, dub, and commercial all at one time. After liberating an recording on Ambient Soho home label Worm User interface and a sensational EP on Skam (co-owned by Autechre and fast getting one of potential electronica’s most widely used scouting-grounds), Pyke was purchased by Sheffield’s Warp label in 1995. His Warp debut, a dual 12-in ./CD-EP entitled Prowl, was an assortment of the filthy experimental fracture of his earlier Skam work as well as the even more hi-res, circuitous electro-lounge of Warp and Crystal clear artists such as for example Plaid, Gregory Fleckner Quintet, and Dr. Rockit. Although he by no means followed up having a full-length for the label, Pyke added a new monitor to some promo-only cassette compilation provided by Warp throughout a Western label tour, in addition to towards the 1996 Worm User interface compilation, Frequencies. After his second recording for WI, 1997’s Heterarchy, he released three albums in 3 years for three brands: Headphone (Design Tub), Sprawl (Me Form), and Sub Rosa (Green Recreation area).