Name: There Is No Acid In This House
Brand: Hieroglyphic Being

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LP-SOJR-518

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-11-25

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Redeye

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Sales:8.875

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5026328005188

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Artist

Hieroglyphic Being

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Soul Jazz

Hieroglyphic Being is an American experimental electronic music artist hailing from Chicago, Illinois. With a unique sound that blends elements of house, techno, and avant-garde experimentation, Hieroglyphic Being has become known for his boundary-pushing approach to music production.

Influenced by artists such as Terrence Dixon, Theo Parrish, and Drexciya, Hieroglyphic Being's music transports listeners to otherworldly realms with its hypnotic rhythms and intricate sonic textures. His tracks are characterized by their raw energy and unconventional structures, creating a truly immersive listening experience.

Having collaborated with notable figures in the electronic music scene like Jamal Moss and Legowelt, Hieroglyphic Being has gained recognition for his innovative contributions to the genre. Whether performing live or producing in the studio, he continues to push the boundaries of electronic music and challenge traditional notions of what it means to create art.

‘There is no Acid in this House’ is Hieroglyphic Being’s third solo album on Soul Jazz Records, a resolute and powerful statement of Jamal Moss’s raw, vital, pioneering, Afro-Futurist electronic (dance) music. 

On his new album Moss once-again draws upon the vast scope of experimentation that has defined Chicago’s musical universe over the last half a century – from the birth of house music with the pioneers Ron Hardy, Marshall Jefferson, Lil Louis and others to the radical avant-garde jazz legacy of the city - The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Sun Ra. 

Chicago’s musical universe continues to push-further forward today with artists such as Hieroglyphic Being, Angel Bat Dawid, Makaya McCraven, and labels such as International Anthem and Hieroglyphic Being’s own Mathematics, all continuing to explore radical new music while drawing upon the city’s decidedly Afro-futurist lineage. 

Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being, remains at all-times a radical one-off musical explorer, a resolute pioneer of an avant-garde dance music aesthetic taking lineage from the founding fathers of acid house such as Ron Hardy and Adonis, and pushing the musical form to its own limits, adding his own harder almost industrial edge to this unique sound, which Moss sometimes describes as ‘Outsider House’ or, referencing the earlier avant-garde musical resident and pioneer, Sun Ra - ‘Rhythmic Cubism’ and ‘Cosmic Be-Bop’. 

Hieroglyphic Being’s music crosses many boundaries and has led to remixes of a wide and diverse list of artists from St Vincent to Hans-Joachim Roedelius (the pioneering German electronic composer and member of Cluster), King Gizzard and the Lizard Gizzard to Adonis and many more. In similar fashion his music has appeared on Ghostly/Spectral, Warp, Ninja, Axis and his own Mathematics Recordings.

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