M.E.S.H. opens Piteous Gate on PAN

The Berlin-based artist will release his debut album in late July.

M.E.S.H. artist James Whipple has made quite an impact for an artist with just two physical EPs behind him, from the jagged fusion of haunting melodic tones, ambient textures and trap beats on “Share The Blame” through to the dense, snaking dub-infused pressure of the Scythians EP. Of course it helps when your second release comes to light on a label with a profile such as PAN, but there has also been some activity on Renaissance Man’s Black Ocean label, a digital-only affair that has featured M.E.S.H. on two separate releases. Equally, membership within the Janus Collective has afforded Whipple a healthy amount of freedom to develop an irreverent attitude to stylistic traits, particularly within the realms of club nights that feature the amorphous clique dropping an array of floor-focused sounds loaded with experimentation.

With such a backdrop, expectation understandably ramps up for a debut album from the sprightly, subversive sound hacker. Piteous Gate lands on PAN at the end of July, featuring nine new tracks that reportedly expand upon the unconventional path the American-born producer has chosen to travel thus far. As the press release would have it, Piteous Gate is a place where, “standard club syncopation is twisted by sliding tempos, cut-and-paste time signatures, and indeterminate pacing.” To get a more literal idea of what to expect, you can preview the delightfully mangled “Epiphet” from the album via The Fader.

PAN will release Piteous Gate by M.E.S.H. on July 17.

Tracklisting:

1. Piteous Gate
2. Optimate
3. Thorium
4. The Black Pill
5. Kritikal & X
6. Epiphet
7. Jester’s Visage
8. Methy Imbiß
9. Azov Seepage