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JDSY
- Similar Artists: Aphex Twin, Dntel, Tycho
- Location: United States
- Genre: Electronic & Dance » Electronica
Editor's review
Attaching screws and pipe-cleaners to his demo back in the 2000s, it was hard for Ann Arbor's Ghostly International label not to notice JDSY. Plodding and sad at points and beautifully complex and--well, still sad--in others, JDSY's sound is one that evokes emotion through its disarranged and often chaotic vibe.
Biography
JDSY (aka Ann Arbor's Joey Sims) makes textbook Avant-Pop. Straddling the electronic and the acoustic, Adage of Known (his first full Ghostly release) is completely unpredictable, using pop vocals as a distant signal for which to guide this stunning melodic soundclash.
Young JDSY came to our attention via some very artful (literally with screws and pipecleaner attached) demos back in the early 2000's. After we commissioned him for a remix of Solvent's "For You" to staggering results, we had to have more.
After wading through literally hundreds of songs and concepts, the foundation that is Adage of Known emerged and the results are, in the words of Ghostly's original mission statement, compelling, engrossing and best of all, subversive.
Having explored technology with no guidebook, his musical techniques are innovative and haphazard, which breathes a life into the songs that is consistently unique.
