Even before his departure from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frusciante was experimenting with music and sounds way outside of the group’s (and even his own) comfort zone. On his 2014 album, Enclosure, the ex-Chili Pepper went deep into the electronic realm, and it appears he has been delving even deeper since then. With his latest endeavor, under his Trickfinger alias (self-titled album due out June 7th), Frusciante decided to strip himself of traditional songwriting techniques and instruments, and go full force into the world of EDM, trying his hand at experimental acid house. With regards to his latest effort, he writes:
“I started being serious about following my dream to make electronic music, and to be my own engineer, five years ago. For the 10 years prior to that, I had been playing guitar along with a wide range of different types of programmed synthesizer and sample-based music, emulating what I heard as best as I could. I found that the languages machines forced programmers to think in had caused them to discover a new musical vocabulary…
In 2007, I started to learn how to program all the instruments we associate with acid house music and some other hardware. For about seven months I didn’t record anything. Then I started recording, playing 10 or so synced machines through a small mixer into a CD burner. This was all experimental acid house, my skills at making rock music playing no part in it whatsoever. I had lost interest in traditional songwriting and I was excited about finding new methods for creating music. I’d surround myself with machines, program one and then another and enjoy what was a fascinating process from beginning to end…”
Take a listen to “After Below“:
Tracklist
01. After Below
02. Before Above
03. Rainover
04. Sain
05. Exlam
06. 85h
07. 4:30
08. Phurip
[via Resident Advisor]