PLO Man

(This article’s English version was produced with AI-assisted translation)

PLO Man's sound is a psychedelia of the future. Few, like him and his nebulous counterpart, Acting Press, can decipher the language of this shifting decade. It’s a frothy texture, traversed by soft waves and altered perceptual states, glitching through the mind. So far, he has created three EPs, each an icon, a trip through parallel orbits at the apex of avant-garde, dreamlike, and otherworldly club culture. His language fully manifests in his DJ sets as well: "TT Vol. 1 - PLO Man + The Moons of Saturn" from 2015 and "Returning to Earth, Only to Leave Again" from 2018 are testaments of the new-wave electronic sound, an ambient-techno bubble studded with inorganic slowdowns and psychotropic compounds reworked for cyberspace trajectories. These mixes breathe in the hypnotic flow of unreleased tracks, possibly generated by PLO Man himself or emerging from the tunnels of Acting Press, with the authorship never truly revealed.

Ge1 Tape continues this journey, a new astral hybrid of ambient-club, post-IDM, cyber-dub from Jah, and microchips planted in the optic nerves, between distorted interferences of alien voices and lo-fi echoes of Rhythm & Sound. It perhaps lacks that radioactive magnetism that pulsed in the mixes of the 2010s. After all, a good set is storytelling that unfolds through emotional layers and sonic visions, a spiral of drones and beats that shape a mental state. From this perspective, Ge1 Tape once again succeeds in articulating a discourse that doesn’t aim for dancefloor impact, but for a more internal resonance, an echo in the liminal spaces of the mind.

With the cockpit in chaos and a handful of quantum pills, you realize that not all sonic digressions maintain the same gravitational force. Or perhaps it’s just that PLO Man has spoiled us too well, and now every new message feels like a lesser fragment, yet no less valuable, of his constellation.

30/04/2025