LOW JACK

As it has become evident, what was once qualified as ‘industrial music’ by the artists and loyal aficionados of the more radical margins of the 1980’s post-punk social and creative continuum has been emerging and permeating the current most exciting progressions and perversions of the techno sphere and close ramifications. The french producer Low Jack (Philippe Hallais) approaches the classic industrial aesthetic and drives it to new stages of transic significance, permutating notions of rawness, extreme trebly frequencies and minimalist harshness. Low Jack has thus defined his coherently referencialist path, apanage of our times where the musician presents himself as a curator of his own audio production, with one foot in the club culture and another on abstract experimentation, having released his music on labels such as L.I.E.S., The Trilogy Tapes or on his own imprint Editions Gravats. There’s plenty evocative strokes of Bunker Records acid-industrial golden period and counterpoints of esoteric groove à la George Issakadis, amidst sinusoidal whiplash worthy of Pan Sonic and ethnic shamanisms appropriations caught or represented on tape, not hiding away the evidence that he passionately knows his way through the Dancemania catalogue and the epic of ghetto house. A galvanizing journey at this year’s OUT.FEST not to be missed.