Bill Converse
Zone Zone
Bill Converse should be a household name in every heads abode. Hes been DJing live with 3+ turntables since he was a teenager, always under the same name. Unfathomably envious record collection. Your favorite DJs as well as very likely your favorite DJ. Whether it is DJing or a live set, his presentation is head-spinning, hard-edged but hypnotic. His avalanching drum programming is as recognizable as Coltranes timbre. His records have been released on Dark Entries, Fit Sound, Texas Recordings Underground, Tabernacle Records, Immortal Sin, Acid Test, Feral Colony and Obsolete Future. Now Fixed Rhythms presents a 2×12 pack of Bills characteristically bewildering excellence.
The first 12 has four cuts. Woozy, heavy, bombastic machine workout opener Stress Test followed by the tension peaking sustainer ZoneZone on the A side. On the B side, 770 brings us to a new place of plucky bass lines and unconventionally tuned drum workouts, with lure me closing the first 12 with flexing low-end, percussive stabs syncopated with heavy snaredrum riffing.
Where does this music come from? Although you hear the decades of Midwest techno, jacking Chicago house, brain-tickling Warp Records cuts, and his dizzying skills as a DJ in the brew, his sound is uniquely Bills. The second 12 peels back the curtain a bit more, as the C and D side are two extended cuts from his live set at 2024s Jackie OBody Vol. 2 in Denton, Texas. We here at the label were at that gig. Pure energy. Sexy distortion. Rhythms that made you scream. After the set, the room erupted in a chant of BILL! BILL! BILL!. Dear reader, witness the power of Bill Converses raw, overdriven, drummy, jack house tech madness!
| 2x12inch | Fixed Rhythms: FRS036 | in stock |
