I-R

“beats that sound like pneumatic drills tearing up pavement in the midst of a traffic jam" (The New York City Jazz Record)

I-R is a Detroit-based project whose live performances offer equal parts aggressive techno beats, lofi ambient sound worlds, and black-midi compositions.

“Detroit duo I-R aggressively sparred with analog synthesizers on pieces like ‘Flail’, which combined on-screen imagery of street maps with beats that sounded like pneumatic drills tearing up pavement in the midst of a traffic jam” – THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD

“A spectacular tapestry of dense electronics/field recordings, w/ a broad emotional palette. Pounding beats and also more ambient tracks like ‘Flail’, which thrills” – AN EARFUL

I-R is a Detroit-based project of Daniel Rhode (DJ Retcon) & Francis Cuthbert (DJ Kuuma), whose live performances offer equal parts aggressive techno beats, lofi ambient sound worlds, and black-midi compositions. Their debut album Detroit Densha Seikatsu, which has been called "a spectacular tapestry of dense electronics/field recordings" (An Earful) and "like pneumatic drills tearing up pavement in the midst of a traffic jam" (The New York City Jazz Record), was released in 2024 on Detroit Underground Records. I-R’s work has been presented at Hardware Soul Festival (Ypsilanti, MI), Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival (Brooklyn, NY), the Third Place Music Festival (Ann Arbor, MI), Ithaca Underground’s series at The Soil Factory (Ithaca, NY) and Noise Engineering’s online modular synth showcase, The Noiseblast Hour. Together the duo hosts Patch Notes at Detroit Shipping Company, a monthly series for live synth performers.

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