24 Mar 2010 | no comments »
Jon, Kyle and I played a set at Chicago’s longest-running experimental music venue, Myopic Books. Kyle was playing his handmade Cyber-Didgeridoo (probably not really what he calls it…), while jon+I were processing short recordings, ambient bookstore noise, feedback and other electronics.
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10 Oct 2009 | no comments »
jonCates && jake elliott – live/recording – [slow_one]
12″ vinyl, limited edition of 100, in hand-printed cloth sleeve. Available directly from Southbridge or in independent record stores in Chicago such as Permanent Records, Hard Boiled and Reckless Records.
10 Mar 2009 | 1 comment »
Southbridge is the label for the musical genre of Slow Electronics. We are concerned with decoding and resisting crypto-fascist patriarchal Power Electronics. We believe in the process of slowness in terms of processing power, data streams and carefully considered recursions folding in on themselves through ’screeching waves of feedback, analogue synthesizers making sub-bass pulses or high frequency squealing sounds, and screamed, distorted, often engaged and relatively unknown lyrics.’