emptyset

emptyset is a Bristol based production duo exploring techno music's broad influences and compiling them to a studio template focused on tight production and detailed sound design. Inspired by the city's culture of bass lead production, the sound has been described as techno meets dubstep folded back onto techno again, a description which is perhaps the most insightful to date. The project owes credit to the classic releases of M-Plant, Sähkö and Chain Reaction as well as more recent producers such as Alva Noto, Deathprod and Burial. emptyset acts as a research project connecting the ideas of a modern dancefloor with experimental approaches to music and its design.

Primitive. A concept album about the sound of banging together two bits of flint. Dawn of Man 2001 vs. Eraserhead vs. Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

An empty set is an empty box or an empty bag. It's not the same as nothingness. Aesthetically it implies structure without content; absolute potential without manifestation. This works as a template for listening to the record: it sounds like dance music with the guts ripped out; the vengeful ghost of a techno future generated entirely from noise and sine waves. There are no melodic lines on which to hitch a free ride; your attention is required at all times to safeguard against total disorientation. 'emptyset' is a Brutalist structure, a foreign universe born out of a void, becoming sentient and condemned to await demolition.
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