MICROCORPS, Alexander Tucker’s mutant techno alter ego, presents “Macrocorpse 2021-2024”, a collection of eight tracks that stray into a mutated space where techno-based composition inhabits the same zone as microsound time scales, drone and noise. Regular Tapeworm collaborator Savage Pencil lends his warped graphic visions to the cover artwork.

“I’ve always admired The Tapeworm from afar,” explains Tucker. “I’d amassed all these tracks, some of which I’d forgotten even existed until the label asked me to produce a tape. Each track is made with a specific system I had set up on the modular rig. I’d have all these processes feeding back into each other creating these dense fragmented bangers.”

Across the album, machine technology sits next to Tucker’s own voice, processed through electronics and granular sampling. Vocals are pitched beyond recognition and delivered in a wordless constructed language that attempts to create its own alien landscapes. Tucker’s aim is for each track to set a balance between structure and disrupting processes that feed off one another, where core rhythmic elements rub up against fried textures that fold in and out of each track. Always keen to marry electronic systems and acoustic instruments Tucker also employs cello layers which are resampled into sonic drone debris.

He expands “I often want to have my cake and eat it with these tracks. My idea was is to place my love of experimental techno, drone, music concrte and composition into each piece, where all these elements can weave through each other and produce a hybrid area.”

Tucker is joined on final track PYN by Luke J Murray (Nonexistent, Stonecirclesampler, Liquid DnB-like Ambient Grime 2) adding his gauzy drones and electronic drift.