Dean Spunt releases his new album Basic Editions, on September 27, via Drag City (Wand). Ahead of the LP’s arrival, Spunt has shared the lead-track “Gonzo Bop” The song  is described as a hybrid signal of celestial ambient synths and percussive break-beat incursions. The music video for “Gonzo Bop”, also a Dean Spunt joint, springs the viewer in and out of reality, bouncing our point-of-view against a trampoline and rolling us into the lawn with a newfound wonder.

For Basic Editions, Dean IDs his process as “using sounds, rather than making sounds”. Steering toward wacked digital soundscapes that bounce colorfully across the stereo azimuth, Dean makes a kind of post-ambient neo-exotica that hinges upon a giddy conflation of cosmic and comic, reflecting Hassell’s Fourth World with the otherworldly shapes of Nuno Canavarro and General Magic & Pita. It all happened thanks to a glimpse of an E-MU Mo’Phatt online, a dance synth module that was made great use of in hip-hop productions around the turn of the millennium — but the important takeaway here is that Dean got it for fifty bucks! Generating a finite amount of very circa-2000 sounds, ideas quickly flooded in; Dean’s inclinations soon took the wheel, pouring a cornucopia of possible ambient moods and EZ listening impulses backwards through a funnel to mold Basic Editions.

Dean Spunt 2024 Tour Dates

Sept. 30 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon*
Oct. 7 – Atascadero, CA @ Dark Nectar*
Oct. 8 – Oakland, CA @ Stork Club*
Oct. 10 – Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge*
Oct. 11 – Portland, OR @ Zero Wave*
Oct. 12 – Olympia, WA @ Le Voyeur*
Nov. 6 – Chicago, IL @ Judson & Moore
Nov. 7 – New York, NY @ Union Pool (w/ Chronophage, Nuke Watch)
Nov. 8 – New York, NY @ Francis Kite Club (w/ Eric Copeland, Itch Princess)
Nov. 12 – London, UK @ New River Studios
Nov. 13 – Amsterdam, NL @ Occii (w/ Mark Cremins)

*w/ The Split Bell Chime

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