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In the early 2000’s, Travis Stewart had several releases on Miami electronic / ambient / dub / IDM label Merck, under the aliases Syndrone, Tstewart and - most famously – Machinedrum, whose soundscape compositions were often compared to fellow Floriadian Prefuse 73, as well as Boards of Canada, Push Button Objects and Autechre, and became an inspiration to today’s melodic electronic beats acts such as Lunice, Lazer Sword, and Glitch Mob.
In 2011, Machinedrum has experienced a huge increase in public awareness and critical respect thanks to his astonishingly skilled and diverse ‘Room(s)’ album on Planet Mu – ranking high in many year-end charts – in parallel with the equally well-received output of Sepalcure, his joint project with Braille, for Scuba’s Hot Flush label.
"Want To 1 2?" is an album recorded between 2005 and 2009, which didn’t come out on vinyl until late 2010, and is only available (suddenly) now on CD for the first time at the tail end of 2011. Why … who knows? But it’s arrival is certainly prescient in the light of the last 12 months’ explosion of activity, and serves as an intriguing prequel to this year’s sleek and fully-club-tooled version of Machinedrum.
"Want to 1 2?" is a slower and lower beast than the Machinedrum known to new fans, which at the same time will strike older followers as a pumped up and rolling re-fix of the artist’s familiar electronic funk template. Coming on like a sweaty amalgam of Daft Punk, Timbaland and Aphex Twin, it’s message is a sonic theme of dirty dancefloor sexuality. This is new age pop music exploding with booming bass and mutant drum patterns, interlaced with soul-speaking synth lines and cryptic messages. Machinedrum spent four years working with the most forward-thinking independent vocalists, and the album features Williamsburg neo-soul / new wave hipster Theophilus London, Brooklyn emcee Mickey Factz - known for his ahead-of-the curve blending of lyrics with unlikely beats - plus Detroit electronic legend Jimmy Edgar, and former battle DJ IE.Merg.