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jack of the suburbs is Abergavenny-based composer and producer Gary-Martin. Their playful approach to musicking draws on club, experimental and art-pop sound worlds to shape textured beats and skittish synthesised melodies, often accompanied by warped field recordings and found sounds.
Their earliest recorded releases were frequently featured on BBC Radio Wales, and were accompanied by a semi-improvised live set which they performed between 2015-16 at UK festivals such as FOCUS Wales, Summer of Love festival, WrexFest, and Chester Live, and in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) at Meta-House.
Since then, as jack of the suburbs, Gary-Martin has been resident producer for creative arts & tech collective, pyka, which has allowed them to produce numerous found-sound remixes with the likes of Tate Britain (sampling Susan Philipsz’ ‘The Sound of War’), London Symphony Orchestra, Wales Millennium Centre, Chester Zoo, Techniquest, Sherman Theatre, and thousands of young people across Wales.
In 2022 Gary-Martin founded Third Nature Recordings, a co-operative record label, in response to the increasingly competitive and numbers-driven nature of independent music. After supporting initial releases on the label, jack of the suburbs released ‘Pacemaker’ on TNR late 2022, marking the return to producing recorded music.
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Abergavenny-based artist and producer jack of the suburbs draws from club, experimental and avant-pop influences to shape textured beats and skittish synthesised melodies accompanied by warped field recordings.
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jack of the suburbs makes computer music from irl +
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