Yorkshire producer Jinjé built “Give A Pluck” from a series of live modular takes, running sequencer patterns through two synthesis voices and twisting the patches in real time until the track’s central riffs came into shape.

Jinjé is the solo project of Lee J Malcolm, the Leeds producer who founded Vessels, a band that started out in post-rock and reworked itself into a live techno outfit. He fed evolving sequencer patterns through the pair and recorded a run of improvised takes, twisting the patches in real time, then cut and reshaped the strongest passages in the studio into the darting riffs that drive the track. His work on London label Earthly Measures has long drawn on afrobeat, afro-folk and highlife recordings from the sixties and seventies, and that thread runs through “Give A Pluck”: a choir of children singing in a tribal style carries over from “Kush”, the track before it on the EP, anchoring the modular arpeggios to something older and warmer.

The single arrived on 22 May ahead of Traces & Tremors, Jinjé’s five-track EP for Earthly Measures: his first solo record on the imprint after releases with Mesh, Ostgut Ton and his own Making Friends.

Listen to “Give A Pluck” HERE and get Traces & Tremors following THIS LINK