With his project Prostitutes, James Donadio belongs to the growing community of producers whose music treads the line between experimental noise and techno. On the Editions Mego sub-label Spectrum Spools, Prostitutes is in good company, since records by artists like Container or Unicorn Hard-On pursue very similar aesthetic strategies. In contrast to his contemporaries, Prostitutes is less brachial, uses an even more sparse palette of sounds, and often has something tribalistic in its insistent, percussive tracks. Its minimalism follows the classic principle of gradual variation, whether of individual sounds and rhythms or through barely noticeable shifts in the mix. He appears less interested in the trance approach of ecstatic intensification over long distances than in the mind-blowing, targeted repetition in the smallest of spaces: three minutes are often enough for him to build up a number. Sometimes, as in the pumping »Four Basic Forces«, he even seems to think of people on dance floors, whose bodies first have to find the appropriate movements to his beat. Reduced music where the nuanced details require all the more precise listening.
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