Artist: Jim Kimchi Release: Pure Gravy EP Label: Paracusia Media Year: September 2020 Genre: Hyperglitch, Fermented Techno, Bugsculpting Total Time: 15:33 Buy Link: https://paracusiamedia.bandcamp.com/album/pure-gravy-ep Sept 16, 2020 As you regain consciousness, strange sounds begin shaping. The warm hum of a large machine to your left, and likely the console controlling it (and your life support) to the right. You open your eyes into a futuristic laboratory, yet the apparatus that was maintaining you appears to be flickering in and out of existence. This is the laboratory of Jim Kimchi, audiologist and invoker of alchemical glitch magic. As your eyes focus on the new world around you, a sharp pain forms in the pit of your stomach. This is not the world you remember. This is an infinitely breaking simulation overrun with rogue glitches and decomposing aesthetics. Jim Kimchi opens the door to a new dimension in glitch music with his Pure Gravy ep. One rife with intentional errors, programmed collapses, and crumbling structures set amidst dissolving holograms. A world in a perpetual state of disintegration, shown to you through many different lenses and angles. Each track seems built from impossibly complex structures, forever locked in a cannibalistic dance of consuming itself to make itself. Right from the onset, from the duality of persondata, with its interesting use of channel separation, you are in for an exquisite treat. The pummeling low end movements and syncopated glitches of Shit Itch lead effortlessly into Turbo Yoga, a masterclass in spatial ingenuity and dynamic construction. Beats made from breaking static clouds, dissonant chords and rumbling low frequencies, projected textures and spectral decomposition. Pure Gravy has an impossible cadence that teeters and trips all over itself, pulling forward towards massive drops of futuristic bulldozer bass wrapped in a metamorphosing package of polished design and and a seemingly endless bag of sonic tricks to tickle your mind. Sealing the deal is a meeting of two sound design titans, and yields a distinct blend of both styles, Jim Kimchi’s signature unorthodox processing methods with the effortless floating synths of Valance Drakes. A perfect dessert to his Pure Gravy ep.! Ear Candy 2020 Overall Comments: Jim Kimchi has crafted a stunning release of massive proportions, deep, intricate, technical, forever rewarding more delightful details on every listen. Don’t put this on in the background, you won’t get anything done. It begs all of your attention and then some. Setting a new standard in glitch music; this is critical listening for very distinguished tastes.Â
