From the Mailbox 62

9ms – M€mo Wading slightly into the world of experimental dub and Krautrock, first up tonight is this strange and wonderful song by Munich-based drummer-duo 9ms (Simon Popp & Florian König). The second single from their just-released third album Lunch–most of which is almost exclusively percussive–this song is an outlier, and draws its melodies from the drums themselves with really clever use of a drum resonator. The melodic result is elusive, as if the melody were a few milliseconds (9?) ahead of or behind the percussion, creating a sense of a sort of slow-motion chase between them. It’s an almost unnerving feeling to experience the drums and melody in this way, but ultimately becomes soothingly hypnotic. Popp and König are machine enthusiasts and build unique custom rigs to allow them to interact with their gear in atypical ways. They describe having the goal of “becoming one with their mystic machinery”; on Lunch, they used infrared and magnetic field sensors to translate their…