Recording: Hybrid Frequency & {AN} EeL

Artist: Hybrid Frequency & {AN} EeL

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Recorded at Array Space (Audiopollination 60), March 10, 2018.

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This tasty night of self-curated sounds saw four different ensembles take the floor, backed by visuals generated by Kelley Mitchell. Syd Ortega's Hybrid Frequency project tends to more abrasive noise when playing on his own, but as a collaborator he can wring a wide range of sounds from his compact pedal-based rig. Here, he mostly generated drones while Neal D. Retke (a.k.a. {AN} EeL) provided vocal outbursts and other spinning sonic surprises.

[Hybrid Frequency will be celebrating a new split tape with Knurl at a release show this Saturday (May 5th) at The Dupe Shop. It's a free/early show with an opening set by Corrodesion.]

Recording: Hybrid Frequency

Artist: Hybrid Frequency

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Recorded at Handlebar (Nite Comfort 47), August 6, 2017.

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Fresh from a South American tour, Syd Ortega took to the darkness of the floor in front of the stage at Handlebar to offer some drones transitioning to controlled feedback bursts.

Recording: Hybrid Frequency

Artist: Hybrid Frequency

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Recorded at The Steady Cafe & Bar (Kulture II), October 13, 2015.

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Kulture is culture, but louder. This occasional noise night was expertly assembled by David Jones (who performed this night as Hexzuul, but is also a member of Manticore and Bile Sister) and took place in the somewhat unlike setting of the backroom of The Steady, which feels a bit like a joint that got stuck somewhere in mid-transition from a diner to a tiki bar. Syd Ortega's set was split down the middle, beginning with some of the night's quietest, most subtle sounds and transitioning into strobelit harsh noise, which he let run as he slowly raised his arms aloft to clasp his hands together in front of him, as if offering a noise prayer.