Territories by J Velez

"Jorge Velez puts his Professor Genius alias to bed with a fine debut LP of searching hardware manoeuvres for L.I.E.S. Six tracks spell out a cosmically detached sound scoping out immersive ambient xones in the black hole of 'Blood and Bone' and underwater bliss of 'Wrecks', along with dancefloor-courting mutant chug in 'Festival Mounds' and more abstract, industrial expressions in the murky rhythms and synth washes of 'Curves', or the blunted pulses of 'Ley Lines'." - BOOMKAT



"The music in Territories powerfully describes the sheer strangeness of geography, the glyphs in the face of the land and the scars in its body, the grim logic with which it erases itself, birthing emergent architectures and excessive contrasts, as if conceived by romantic colossi.

It walks over the land in drones that crack and pop like the joints of an achy pilgrim writing a secret message with the twists in his path, it flies over the land too, and its synths chirp like kosmische birds surveying an alien planet. It is still most definitely dance music, but for a party that will last for millennia, until the cosmic police comes to shut it down." -
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Released in 2014 on L.I.E.S as LIES 046

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"From the lo-fi techno of his MMT Tape Series to his synth explorations as Professor Genius, New York's Jorge Velez draws on many generations of dance music." - Resident Advisor