Having worked at Basic Channel-founded Dubplates & Mastering for almost two decades, Rashad Becker has mastered hundreds of releases by the likes of Vladislav Delay, Pan Sonic, Ryoji Ikeda, and Plastikman. When his terrific debut LP, Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. 1 emerged, the world finally got a chance to catch a glimpse of Rashad's own sound world, in which alien transmissions from ailing communication devices of the future meet clusters of electronic tones from a mechanized rainforest.
Rashad performed a live set on WFMU of his soundscapes.
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