Bleep

Perhaps best-known for his time running the ICASEA label, here Tom Knapp steps into centre-stage with a new EP as SDEM. As anyone who dabbled with Knapp’s legendary IDM imprint might have expected, Index Hole is a set of mutant electronics and off-centre beats. These tracks never allow you to settle - drums short-circuit before they get going, rhythms glitch all over the place and synths lurch around drunkenly. As a result, tracks that would be head-nodders in the hands of other producers turn into disorientating IDM glitch-outs ala Skam. A highly inventive EP, Index Hole may chart a new course for the Central Processing Unit sound.