This week sees the release of Wireless, Torsten Profrock’s final recording as T++.

Profrock, who plays a central role in Berlin’s Hardwax operation, has been making innovative electronic music since the early 1990s, recording for Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus’s Chain Reaction imprint as well his won DIN under a range of aliases including Resilent, Various Artists and Dynamo. He is an on-off collaborator with Robert Henke in the latter’s Monolake project, but it’s T++ that has his main creative outlet since 2006.

Debuting with the ‘Aquatic’/’Storm’ 12″ and going on to bring out four subsequent 12″s, most recently an incredible archival two-tracker for Appleblim’s Apple Pips imprint, T++’s music has found favour with fans of dubstep, techno and experimental electronics alike, whilst actively resisting easy alignment with any one scene. Remixes of Shackleton, Monolake, STP (Shed), Marcel Dettmann and Moderat have helped affirm his maverick status.

Now Profrock has decided to retire the T++ moniker, bowing out in style with a 2×12″ EP for London’s Honest Jon’s, entitled Wireless (its provisional handle was 1938). Profrock has long been vocal in his admiration for the rhythmic experimentation of the post-jungle UK underground, and Wireless is his most explicitly garage-derived record to date. All four of these brand new productions are brittle 2-step variations, coloured with samples of voice and ndingidi culled from East African 78s (soon to be collected on an Honest Jon’s compilation): though in some ways they consolidate the T++ aesthetic as we know it, in others they sound like nothing Profrock has ever made before. It’s a worthy, richly rewarding finale to what has been one of 20th century dance music’s most compelling and distinguished bodies of work, and you’d be a fool not to seek it out. Listen to some clips and buy the record here.



Tracklist:
1.Cropped
2. Anyi
3. Voices No Bodies
4. Dig

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