Pornojumpstart’s lo-fi bedroom bangers

Pornojumpstart, A Change In The Weather and Daybreaker (Space Idea Tapes)

South Carolina’s Adam Shlon, who produces under the Pornojumpstart moniker, makes electronic music for the bedroom dancer, the headphone clubber. On his two cassette-only releases, you won’t find cavernous beats alongside clicks and modulations in fidelity meant to facilitate endorphin-induced clarity on the dance floor. Instead — on A Change In The Weather and Daybreaker — you get a digital-to-analog parade of seamless lo-fi bangers.

Within the first few minutes of A Change In The Weather, you realize Shlon’s music could probably move bodies en masse. Bass drum hits on every beat with electro melodies squiggling a trail of neon colors. Danceable? Very. Overwhelming? In the best possible way.

In a rhythmically aggressive sense, his songs sound big. But by putting his music exclusively to cassette, Shlon’s music becomes insular, more intimate. The equalization afforded by tape skews booming beats and bright synthesizers — qualities that dominate a huge collection of Pornojumpstart tracks on Soundcloud — with an emphasis on the middle frequencies. Throw in tape noise, and Shlon’s music becomes a fuzzy glow of pop electronics. While A Change In The Weather and Daybreaker might sound small and grounded because of the medium, concurrently, there’s an infinite nature to the music of Pornojumpstart. It’s simultaneously immediate and distant.

For the headphone listener, it’s perfect for the home dance party. Pornojumpstart wouldn’t feel quite as satisfying blasting through the club’s tape player.