Umbria Acid by Hardworking Families

This track was recorded in one take using only mixer feedback, no inputs. Some EQing has been done to take the sharpest edges off of the high end and boost the bass slightly, but otherwise this is exactly what came out of my feedbacked mixer for 9 minutes on an Italian rooftop in August 2015. No sequencer, drum machine or synth. I didn't intend to make any kind of techno or beat-based music, but that's just where the feedback took me.

"Abstracted sauces, performance as code, gristle, electronic manipulation and tape glitch." - Radio Free Midwich.

Hardworking Families is Tom Bench’s solo sound-play interrogation. Working with no-input mixer feedback, tapes, objects, and occasionally instruments, intuitive textural adventures will coax your ears with visceral flavours.