Praecox aka Jurek Przeździecki, has released a new seven-track record, Large Kimono, on Ellen Allien’s BPitch Control.
The release, cataloged as BPX050, represents a bridge between Poland’s foundational underground techno scene and Berlin’s enduring electronic legacy.
Przeździecki, well-known for his legacy on Sven Väth’s Cocoon and collaborative projects like Tumult Hands with Jacek Sienkiewicz, uses the new album to blend austere textures, head-down minimalism, and relentless dancefloor drive.
The sonic identity of Large Kimono is marked by its refusal of ordinary, cloned loops in favor of dense narrative shifts. Across its duration, the LP moves through several sub-genres and structural spaces including for example acid basslines and clashing melodic sequences of “System Combi”. Przezdziecki also uses unique Brazilian favela vocal samples on “Lorenz Attractor” to illusionary voice work simulating a 1968 bar scene on “Funeral Buddy”.
You really need to put attention not only to the music, but… also to Paecox’s titles of all tracks from the album. As he once described in one of the interviews:
When creating titles, I look for abstraction and the tension that arises somewhere between the absurd, the subtlety of a paradox, and provocative wordplay. The world around us is full of ready-made inspiration – sometimes it’s a snippet of dialogue from a movie, sometimes a forgotten phrase that no one uses anymore, and sometimes an unexpected combination of words that, at first glance, don’t seem to go together. Words have their own sound and rhythm – they can be combined to form phrases that surprise and reveal different meanings.
Large Kimono is out now via BPitch Control. You can listen to snippets and grab a 12-inch black vinyl or digital copy directly on the Praecox Bandcamp page.