Hamilton, Canada
Johan (aka Beach Jerky) is an underground presence in the electronic music scene of Hamilton. From the intimate lounge in Che to the main room of Baltimore House, his sets are an unmistakable metaphor for the frozen sounds of the city and our relationships with technology. Open air, maximum bass depth, minimum sounds, anthropogenic samples, realization of the inevitable Apocalypse at the hands of humanity – these are sounds and themes Beach Jerky engages with.
His style of music gravitates towards exploration of new acoustic spaces, intellectuality, austerity and architectural structure. The feelings of mechanization, monotony and the dynamic technological processes encountered within the typical bustling city and nature are the aesthetic elements he seeks to paint for partygoers as he moves the crowd night and night again. A great number of percussive and synthetic sounds, tempo and signature shifts are his tools.
