Speaker Music Techxodus 12/23/14 Wind and Fire

Wind and Fire

Tommy Shannon

The first three tunes were recorded in a Colorado living room and produced by drummer Patrick Meese

its layers of backwards guitar and Shapiro's double-tracked close harmonies transform into a boogie-rock jam The Flaming Lips probably wished it had recorded first

Speaker Music Techxodus 12/23/14 Wind and FireDeForrestBrown Jr.,the writer and producer behind Speaker Music, describes Techxodus as "abstracting Blackness through information overload". On the album he explores the intersectionof tech, Blackness and resistance via music taken from his archivedlive shows, which are then edited, ordered and reassembled in the studio. Musically the album is as intense as its inspirations. This is a powerful and immersive original work from one of electronic