Jason Thing

When the magazine's at the printer, it's time for me to clean up a little, back up some files, and respond to email that I blew off during deadlines. I also try to catch up with people. One guy I emailed was Jason "Nosaj Thing" Chung, who I saw for just a minute when he and Chris "Free The Robots" Alfaro played Undefeated in Silver Lake.

Check out the live effects Julia Tsao and Adam Guzman are developing. Jason will be playing the South, the West Coast, and then Europe, getting his new CD out there to the people, and the show will look as amazing as it sounds.


Here's the review I wrote of the new CD that will appear in the upcoming GR:

Nosaj Thing
Drift
The electronic music of Jason Chung is like a musical Rorschach Test. His compositions and beats could propel a next-generation raper, provide a soundtrack to a psychedelic sci-fi flick, or be used to communicate feelings with aliens. My favorite songs are the more atmospheric ones, like “Fog” with its vaguely human breaths and playful keyboard riff hop-scotching over a virtual ocean of sonic currents and eddies. “1685/Bach” has a more tortured sound, like a record needle is sewing up the song’s loose skin to keep its guts from falling out. “Lords” comes across like a chorus of angels clashing and then coming to terms with the unholy sounds of an 808 bass. And as challenging as it is to describe the songs, it’s even harder to stop listening. [Alpha Pup] mw