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jack of the suburbs is Abergavenny-based artist and producer Gary-Martin. Their playful approach to musicking draws on club, experimental and art-pop sound worlds to shape textured beats, skittish synthesised melodies, and warped field recordings.
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 co-ran Third Nature Recordings, a year long experiment in running a co-operative record label that explored responses to the increasingly competitive and numbers-driven nature of independent music. After supporting initial releases on the label, jack of the suburbs released the single ‘Pacemaker’ on TNR.
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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, skittish synthesised melodies, and warped field recordings.
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jack of the suburbs makes computer music from irl +
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