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15. JEMH CIRCS  - Zebra
16. JEMH CIRCS  - CRISPR/Cas9
17. JEMH CIRCS  - L.V
18. JEMH CIRCS  - (H)
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20. JEMH CIRCS  - Metabolismus
21. JEMH CIRCS  - Doyg
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23. JEMH CIRCS  - (untitled) Kingdom
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ARTIST
TITLE
Untitled Kingdom
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
CELL 002CD CELL 002CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/4/2018

Black To Comm's Marc Richter returns under his Jemh Circs guise for a second album of sonic abstractions. In contrast to Black To Comm's analog tape- and vinyl-based sound, in Jemh Circs he works with digital sources by primarily sampling modern pop music (and various other oddities) on YouTube (et al.) and sending chunks of it through a variety of arcane transformations and mutations. Using similar esoteric methods as on his 2016 self-titled debut album (CELL 001LP) but with very different results the record deconstructs the hypermodern sound of pop music with a post punk attitude, energy, and primitivism. Richter's combining disparate elements that shouldn't really work together but somehow all the chaos is making strange sense creating a collection of oddly diverging sonic vignettes with a surreal and anarchic spirit. This is music deeply rooted in the present but still difficult to pinpoint to a certain year or style. (Untitled) Kingdom converts a seemingly one-dimensional concept into a complex puzzle of ideas, sounds, and narratives; completely assimilating the original sources and transforming them into novel entities with an unexpected melodic and rhythmic quality.

Previous press for Jemh Circs:
"The overall effect is quite remarkable. Each track is like a hologram of pop music itself, a tiny part that reflects the whole. You almost feel that you could open them out and re-create entire popular music cultures. We'll be grateful for that when the next solar storm fries all of our hard drives." --Ian Sherred, The Sound Projector

"In that way Jemh Circs is a record about process -- not just how Richter loops and distorts and mutates his samples, but how the sounds of pop music create a particular sonic signature, one that gets more interesting the farther they're pulled from their original context." --Marc Masters, The Out Door

"Recycling random audio off YouTube, Jemh Circs' process couldn't be less sentimental, but the results turn out to be sneakily emotive." --Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork