Steve Poindexter and Jamal Moss return as The Faces of Drums banging those classic Gherkin style vibes and deep chaotic sound motions with a twist of off-kilter acid to finish you off in the classic Mathematics way.
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Hieroglyphic Being – The Disco’s Of Imhotep [TCLR015]
Seriously strong Jamal Moss LP under his Hieroglyphic Being moniker. “The Disco’s Of Imhotep is about creating Frequencies and Vibrations for the Listener that are conducive for him or her to Heal The Mind and Body and Enrich the Soul by creating Hemi-Synced Harmonies and music that contains embedded Binaural Beats. We have been made to believe that electronic sounds are just for Movement, Enlightenment, Primal Afflictions and Entertainment purposes, but it’s much more… It’s Sound Healing, but the ancestors would call it Frequency Medicine. Medicine is Healing and this project is dedicated to one of Earth’s first Healers: High Priest Imhotep. The One who comes in Peace, is with Peace.”
Africans With Mainframes – Faces of Africa [MATH090]
Noleian Reusse and Jamal Moss team up again as Africans With Mainframes for ”Faces Of Africa EP”. Think early Ibadan or Smile records B-sides of murky excursions in Tribal and Techno.
Faces of Drums – Popping Off [MATH089]
Returning for another spastic floor beating with jack tracks and Gherkin acid experiments from Steve Poindexter and Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being, this 3rd Faces of Drums EP on Mathematics does not disappoint.
Hieroglyphic Being & The Configurative Or Modular Me Trio – Cosmic Beebop [MATH088]
Jamal Moss doesn’t mess around. The legendary Chicagoan is impressively prolific, and seemingly able to knock out a new album or double EP in a matter of days, rather than weeks or months. Cosmic Bebop is his latest set of no-nonsense jack tracks; an eight-track assault on the senses forged from dusty old drum machines, occasional blasts of distant melody, and all manner of mind-altering special effects. It’s pretty much what you’d expect from Moss, and for the most part sits in the folder marked “box jams”. It’s a proper past perspective of works (1996-2014) from Jamal Moss of obscure experimental releases of unique analog sounds reissued other his other popular known alias.
Dexter St. Jacques – Ancient Way of Knowing [SEQ013]
Solo outings from Africans With Mainframes member Noleian Reusse are relatively rare. Here he dons a brand new alias, the Eddie Murphy-referencing Dexter St Jacques, and sets off on a techno trip into the ether. Opener “Laamb” [sic] is a curious but alluring beast, with undulating synthesizer and acid lines riding a fizzing, almost bubbly drum machine rhythm. It feels like electronic jazz with techno drums, yet it’s not overtly jazzy. There’s a similar feel about the more distorted “Temporal Understanding”, where rising and falling melodies lines and winding electronics compete for attention over a hissing drum machine groove.
The Angel Race – Ghetto Sketches [MATH087]
Second EP on Mathematics from Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being and Deviere ”Ghetto Sketches EP” is an experimental fusion of Jazz/Deep House/Black Noise Art Rebellion that will invoke mental incantations of fever.
Circling Vultures – Circling Vultures [LIES030.5]
Chicago veterans Justin Long and Ken Zawacki debut their Circling Vultures project on L.I.E.S. with three tracks of jackin’ mid-Western techno.
Africans with Mainframes – K.M.T. [SJRD333]
Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being, returns this time under the alias Africans with Mainframes. With fellow Chicagoan Noleian Reusse they have been releasing music under the name Africans with Mainframes for over 15 years now. The K.M.T. LP is the debut album from the group, a collage of apocalyptic Chicago acid meets industrial and transcendental post-house machine funk. Both intense and unique, the album of forward-thinking, experimental, boundary-pushing Afro-futurist electronic music shows why Hieroglyphic Being is regarded as one of the most serious purveyors of experimental electronic music today.
VA – RDY #30 (Ron Hardy Edits) [RDY030]
Four monstrous tracks straight from the basement featuring one of the original house music creator Ron Hardy.
Hieroglyphic Being (Live) @ Electrónica en Abril, La Casa Encendida (Madrid) 09.04.2016
VA – RDY #29 (Ron Hardy Edits) [RDY029]
Four monstrous tracks straight from the basement featuring one of the original house music creator Ron Hardy.
Prins Thomas – D (Hieroglyphic Being Remixes) [STS27412]
Given the sprawl and epic that was the recent Principe Del Norte album from Prins Thomas, it is no surprise Smalltown Supersound have opted to think big for this subsequent remix 12″ series. Hieroglyphic Being kicks matters off with a pair of remixes of “D”, whose original 14 minutes made for one of the highlights of the album. In the hands of Jamal Moss, the track doesn’t transform into the corrosive monster you might expect though little of the original remains intact. The accompanying Beat Rework buries PT’s original krauty melodics deep below a killer barrage of drums and is our favourite of the two HB versions.
Jamal Moss – 4 This Is Living That Gherkin Life: Gherkin Tracks [0000000-001]
Jamal Moss AKA Hieroglyphic Being with the Gherkin inspired treats. Combining tracks from CDR releases, of the same name, that were circulating at the end of 2015.
VA – RDY #28 (Ron Hardy Edits) [RDY028]
Three monstruous tracks straight from the basement featuring one of the original house music creator Ron Hardy. Tullio de Piscopo – Stop Bajon, Eberhard Schoener – Why Don’t You Answer and John Forde – dDon’t You Know Who Did It.
I.B.M. – Eat My Fuck [SYNSEN004]
Special limited cassette of I.B.M. aka Hieroglyphic Being’s ”Eat My Fuck” which was originally released on vinyl in 2014 & is out of print. Limited to 100 numbered copies worldwide. Includes 2 stickers. A demented sonic painting of rhythmic cubism & synth expressions.
Dona – City With No Fear [POINTS006]
For its sixth release, Points Records invited Jamal Moss who drops an awesome B-side here. Great underground acid track featuring a twisted Hieroglyphic Being rework.
VA – RDY #26 (Ron Hardy Edits) [RDY026]
Rinder & Lewis – Lust, The Alan Parsons Project – Mammagamma (instrumental) and an 120 BPM rhythm track.
Hieroglyphic Being – Dekmantel Podcast 052
VA – RDY #25 (Ron Hardy Edits) [RDY025]
All three tracks here are on a stretched-out, dubbed-out electronic disco tip, beginning with what appears to be Hardy’s reel-to-reel extension of Disco Dream & The Androids’ quirky 1979, Moroder-ish arpeggio-jam “Dream Machine”. Flip for an all-instrumental dub take on Craig Peyton’s decidedly wonky, electro-disco cover of “Be Thankful For What You’ve Got” and “116 BPM Trax”, an un-credited, boogie-era, proto-house jam full of bubbling electronics, cheeky synthesizer riffs and clanking drum machine hits.
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