While Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos made a name for themselves as Beat Detectives, their more recent duo project Nuke Watch has remained comparatively low-key and subterranean. Gone are the house-oriented experiments — those lo-fi-meets-outsider excursions that brought them recognition on labels like 1080p and 100% Silk. Under the new alias, it’s all about jamming now — so freely, in fact, they could almost be mistaken for an artisanal jam factory.
Wait For It… features two tracks, each over 20 minutes long — a cheeky flirt with the physical limitations of the vinyl format. Musically, too, it celebrates boundary-pushing: “Supersonic Percussion Anagram” plays like a fever dream of drums — sampled, programmed, layered, stacked, bagged, beaten with a stick — and possibly recorded all over again. Somehow, this percussive riot, despite its stoned-humour premise (»Let’s use 500 different drum sounds«), doesn’t collapse in on itself. Quite the opposite: it holds together impressively, a testament to the duo’s musical instinct.
The B-side “Think Peace” shifts focus to modular synthesis and carries a faint sense that — despite the piece’s freely associated structure — someone occasionally paused to think about where the journey might actually lead.
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