Furthur Electronix Collective
Freund der Familie
Kevin Reynolds
Keith Worthy
Mesak
Mono Junk
Losoul
Morphology
Richard Zepezauer
Reade Truth
S-Max
Thee J Johanz
Trevor Deep Jr
Zernell
As electro continues to forge its way into the 21st century as a hallucinogenic reminder of an ulterior past, the genre, still lead by the progenitors of its day, finds itself in 2019 firmly backed by an ever inimitable bastion of devotees. Such support comes from Finnish duo Morphology, aka Michael Diekmann and Matti Turunen, who at large for more than a decade now have been holding down the retro-activism of Detroit and its call for an illuminated future of programmable, motorized, electro-fantasies.
Surfacing on the anchor of Abstract Forms in 2009, the duo soon made their presence as electro statesmen known via Spanish label Semantica, hailed for its brooding, no-nonsense and sophisticated take on club and warehouse techno. With spates on The Exaltics’ Solar One Music and a slew of albums for Germany’s Zyntax Motorcity, it’s been Cultivated Electronics and Central Processing Unit of late that have given new rise to the music of Morphology. And with the duo’s Traveller LP released through FireScope, helmed by the UK’s legendary B12, in 2018, the floodlights remain unshakably fixed on the Finnish pair’s brilliance moving into a new decade.
As part of an enviable line of electro-minded labels, jewels in their crown have made their way to landmark compilations, be it CPU’s 50th release jubilee to DJ Stingray’s lauded Kern mix for Tresor. With their run of form, respectability and recognition firmly in tow, the duo last year made highlight reels of Mugako Festival 2018 at Basque Museum-Center Of Contemporary Art and Russia’s Present Perfect Festival in St. Petersburg, meanwhile holding it down in the underground at Scand nights in London, to bookings at Concrete Paris and Closer in the Ukraine, to Berlin’s unmissable Berghain.
With 10 years of professionalism behind them, countless releases to their name, and a forever exploratory live set, Morphology’s place as a mainstay of futurist electro is rock solid and burning bright.