The UK electronic producer patten has added his visual collaborator Jane Eastlight into the musical fold to make the project a duo. First performing back in 2014 at Warp25 in Krakow, Poland, before beginning a short run of shows exploring their deconstructed club music with a stark and intense visual show, the pair has now announced they will release their LP Ψ on September 16th via Warp Records. In discussing the upcoming record, the duo explains:
“There were atmospheres, palettes and textures we were interested in looking at and distilling on Ψ – like the grinding city sounds of Industrial music, the bass weight of UK dance’s Hardcore Continuum, the emotive drive of 80s Goth, the techy weirdness of current pop music like Rihanna, the sonics of modern club like Grime, Footwork and Techno. We wrote in a very open way, allowing these elements to naturally interact in what we were doing.”
This week patten released an excellent track and video called, “Sonne“. Featuring razor sharp percussion, cavernous bass and acidic synth lines, Eastlight narrates the track with a vacant, noir delivery. The video is directed by Matilda Finn, and she follows suit with eerie, color treated visuals that seem to depict some sort of cryptic urban adventure as they follow the producer and Eastlight traveling on foot and by auto.
