The small town project gets off the ground with an experimental balance between glitch and idm

Propulse is a collaborative project, a joint venture into idm and experimental by brothers Kyle and Jon Wall. The pair are based in out in small town Ontario, working together to spread their sound out to other artists and listeners. Their connection with the Canadian label ‘A Person Disguised As People’ is serving as a way for them to do just that, with an EP already released last year and a more extensive five track collection dropping later this month.

Though the sound explored by Propulse in their earlier work with ‘A Person Disguised As People’ back in 2020 was structured around muted snare beats and a soft bass undercurrent, their upcoming release ‘Digiform’ moves into a more accentuated style of idm.

In tracks like ‘Glitterbroke 74’ and ‘Cloud 9 People’ the brothers lean more heavily on glitch, which a touch of acid house squelch. There’s a smoother quality to other inclusions on the EP though, with the inclusion of synth waves helping to blur the boundaries between the decidedly synthetic beats.

Our featured track ‘Digiform’ balances these somewhat contrasting tones, even moving to include organic, natural samples, as well as pads. Playing together with the glitch, Digiform is an experiment that pays off.

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