Drummer and producer Dominick Gray makes retro-futuristic post-punk music as Telesonic 9000. He formed the project while living in Berlin — he currently resides in Ann Arbor, MI and Toledo, OH — originally conceiving it as a live multimedia show that combined his music and film interests before expanding into digital music and video releases.

Gray just released his EP E.C.H.O., which will be paired with a short film later this spring. Both are inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kraftwerk, Massive Attack, and postwar atomic visual imagery, with the short film assembled from 99 archive films remixed into 11 minutes. Both also blend his experiences in Berlin with an American sensibility, informed by his art school upbringing in Ohio.

The multi-artist previously toured in Japan and Europe and he has recorded drums for the Brian Jonestown Massacre. The keys on E.C.H.O. were recorded by Mike Novak from the Chicago Electric Piano Company at Neal Francis’ old parish quarters attached to a church in west Chicago. This EP is being physically released with a limited edition vinyl with custom punch card inserts printed by the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

Gray said, “E.C.H.O. is sparked by the discord between the wide-eyed techno wonder of the computer age and the tech-malaise of modern times. We’re living at a time that was once envisioned to be a utopia, which instead has mutated into a digital world haunted by a loss of optimism.”

order E.C.H.O. EP by Telesonic 9000 HERE