M.U. PODCAST #122: MIDDEX (MARCH, 2022)
Kevin Hendrick aka Middex devises a bricolage of oblique minimal synth and dislocated industrial electronics on his upcoming album 'Perpetual Skip', to be released on March 25, 2022, at Outer Reaches Records. Originally from Middlesex and now based in East London, Hendrick inaugurated the Middex project in 2015, following stints in post-punk groups including Male Bonding and Primitive Parts. More recently, Hendrick has joined the punk outfit Adulkt Life ranks, while focusing predominantly on solo material.
After releasing a series of discretely incendiary cassettes and one-off 7”s for The Tapeworm and Polytechnic Youth, Middex unveiled the project’s debut album ‘No Home’ in 2018, before returning to The Tapeworm in 2019 for the cavernous minimalism of ‘Scrutiny’, a cassette of deconstructive solo works and collaborative experiments featuring Lindsay Corstorphine (Sauna Youth, Monotony, Oblate), and the 2021 album ‘Let the Engine-Loud Apocalypse Play Havoc with your Soul’, a self-release on Hendrick’s own Demotic Brick imprint.
‘Perpetual Skip’ illustrates indeterminate qualities and is difficult to classify, an album situated in a peripheral zone of its own. Rather than resembling mere imitation and retrospection – a case of playing potluck with a few canonical post-punk and industrial records – this record engages with the disarray of the here and now on its own terms.
‘Perpetual Skip’ embodies the remnants, all the material left behind. A work that corrals ‘lambasted parts’, relegated realities. If the world is a skip, then here is where to submerge.
01. Origin Tease
02. demon body, ecology + future - Bianca Scout
03. Capitalism Pt 2 (ft Tracy N. Microokie) - Fines Double
04. the wind will carry us - Maral
05. getir tips - Pete
06. Play Fake Logic - PLF
07. Adolescence - Fatboi Sharif & Lonesword
08. complect / registered feeling - MIDDEX
09. stamford hill radio anomaly - Ford Focus
10. passage 49 - Pamela_ and her sons
11. puff asmr lordship staller - Ford Focus
12 Amen Then - MIDDEX
13. kevin meaning k e v i n - youtrip
14. E. Eternal - Yves Tumor
15. Glimpses of Death - QED
16. Valley of the Shadows - Origin Unknown
About the mix: Collapsing seance under ethos, in a syphon. In a fume. Through a gauze. Distraction citadel rule resigns and it is irrelevant and it is time. Mean Time. Running machine in a vapor cloud that sweeps the sweetness from a mile off. A standard. Bodies as figures of speech. Leave the body for tips
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