These Hidden Hands
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Formed in 2012, These Hidden Hands is an experimental electronic group consisting of Alain Paul and Tommy Four Seven. Releasing on their own label, Hidden Hundred, they embrace the opportunity to embrace and cross-breed a range of styles including ‘classic IDM, jungle and early techno’, the overriding mood of their music is dark and ominous, with massive bass rumbles and dense soundscapes and melancholic ambience.
Converging a brutalist aesthetic with studio dynamism, their music can be summarised as bass hits and pulverised noise rent with super wide and spacious production. It's a sound that's steadily attracted a lot of listeners and producers alike in the last few years, yet THH hold their own with a steadfast style absorbing influence from artists like Autechre and darker, later strains of UK D&B.
Their music has a aggressive force and momentum , with keening organ chords and tumbling structures, split between sore, romantic IDM, and driving violent futurism. The duo work out their IDM influences with shimmering chords and echoing drum sounds, with atmospheric, filmic chords cut through by abrasive and churning heavy percussion. With a mood of ‘distressed nostalgia’ and clearreferences early 1990s styles, there’s some similarity to the less acidic end of the Rephlex Records sound, but with a bleaker undertone – here the nostalgia isn’t simplistically or naively wistful but darker and tenser.
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