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Eprom, 'Center of the Sun': An Exploding Star of Digital Anxiety

The Portland producer's mutant trap music is worth investigating.
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First off, if the combination below (an XLR8R premiere) doesn't make the listener/viewer super-eager to click through to the full world of West Coast beatsmith Eprom, don't be deterred. With more room to stretch out, dude's post-trap sludge-electro becomes a rather more satisfying experience, albeit just as fuck-all odd and sketchy. To be honest, I'm still getting aquainted, starting with 2013's Halflife.

If "Center of the Sun" feels like being buried alive beneath pixels as dense as diamonds, Eprom's collaboration with Amsterdam producer Akka below feels more like drifting down through the atmosphere beneath the wide canopy of a parachute, supported by pixels as dense as air.