Seams
Rising alongside the raft of electronic producers making waves is Seams. Touring with Gold Panda and Dam Mantle whilst selling out a run of ‘Nightcycles’ pressed by Tough Love set Seams off to a very strong start.
Most electronic music fans will recognise in Seams’ organic sound a reference to traditional song writing and structure. Seams is likely to be a gateway drug to electronica for those kids that grew up listening to guitar music.
Next up saw Seams capture the essence of the Berlin summertime for Pictures Music. ‘Tourist’ documents a summer spent living in Berlin with a laptop and a Dictaphone. The four tracks guide you sonically through the city’s different atmospheres with recordings chopped and looped over subtle synth and drum work. The EP garnered the praise of his contemporaries and peers for a decidedly delicate take on electronic soundscapes.
The ‘Focus Energy/Motive Order’ 12” takes Seams’ lush electronica in a new direction. He returns with an altogether more dance-floor orientated release. Driven by a desire to make audiences at his live shows dance, a much more propulsive sound manifests itself across the two tracks. This is no nose dive into minimal throb however; there is still the inherent musicality and ear for melody that has seen him get commissioned for remixes of Gold Panda, Chad Valley and Memory Tapes amongst others.
If anything this swerve towards the dance-floor is further evidence of the talent that has already been lauded by the likes of FACT, Dummy, Huw Stephens and Jon Hillcock.
