Though Sirens mixes languages and styles, it has a sonic throughline, thanks to Jaar's reliance on modular synths and selective approach to sampling.
Working as a duo, Nik Colk Void and Gabriel Gurnsey have slung out what little fat was on their rig and made a minimal techno record on modular synths and drum machines.
The music is all composed by John Also Bennett using a combination of modular synths and digital tools.
Longtime Detroit promoters Blank Code and Communion join Minneapolis' System and California's BL_K NOISE for a night of modular synths, and noisy experimental sounds.
"I'd love to do it with a string section, some modular synths and a small choir, and try to arrange the songs into that kind of format," he says, "but everything's quite fluid at the moment".
The game's opening scene takes place in Zimmerman's studio, where we're treated to a 360-degree video view of his equipment set-up, which features walls of keyboards, modular synths, and multiple laptop screens.
As an electronics technician for CBC Radio, he punches the clock in TV and radio maintenance before heading home to a mad scientist's lab of modular synths and other Frankensteined toys, transmitting a brain-scrambling tsunami of A/V what-the-fuckery.
Last year Token released the outstanding Aphelion compilation featuring the likes of modular synth wizard Surgeon, and Dystopian label boss Rødhåd to give a comprehensive overview of the dark and hypnotic sounds from the Belgian label.
