NYC analogue adventurer Bryce Hackford returns with mini-album Amnesia

Some crunchy house shapes ahead of his second album proper.

Bryce Hackford’s debut album Fair was a slow-burn favourite of ours from the tail-end of 2013, with the Brooklyn producer channelling the spirit of New York’s avant-garde downtown era as well as its current below-the-radar noisy dance scene on a collection of hypnotic, rough-edged tracks.

Following a genius remix split release with cellist Oliver Coates, Hackford has announced his second solo release on PRAH Recordings and treated us to the first track from it, a throwback house jam encrusted in analogue dirt titled ‘Figures’.

The Amnesia mini-album is a set of “raw, sampladelic tracks and different explorations of repetition”, the label explains, with Hackford roughing up his compositions through improvisation and un-synchronised instruments. One of the tracks, ‘Just Four Kicks’, last for just two seconds and references dance-pranksters The KLF’s idea for no two drum machine players to repeat each other exactly.

The album is out on December 15 in a ridiculously limited edition of 75 CD-R copies, available through Phonica Records and the PRAH Recordings website. It’ll then be available on Beatport from January 19.

Last year FACT spoke to Hackford about the state of New York, his love of improvisation and his hatred of MIDI.