New electronic duo STRAKT is a collaboration between -1 and Allinaire, two artists central to the modular synthesis resurgence in Sydney, Australia. Their debut album DIAGNOSES grew organically from improvised modular synth performances and impromptu recordings, shaped with nearly a year of remote sessions and file transfers over the internet due to the pandemic. Modular synths are notoriously difficult for producing music, making polished and cohesive modular-centric albums difficult to make and relatively rare. Diagnoses is an exception. Every track began as a live modular synth exploration, then went through a complex progression of editing, arrangement, mixing and overdubbing, while always staying true to the original modular components. The result is a musical journey through the landscape of modern modular synthesis, married to detailed, computer-based production. Allinaire’s complex, circuit-bent beats and intriguing, filtered electrical sounds continually surpr...
