Gulls - "Mean Sound" EP - Boomarm Nation Vol.1
Released: September 2010
Limited 300 12" vinyl

Gulls is the music of Jesse Munro Johnson via Portland, Oregon. West Coast.
Every track is built entirely from the ground up. Johnson samples only himself, cutting up and rearranging myriad textures – horns, synthesizers, etc. – into dazzling kaleidoscopic formations. A densely woven tapestry of sound, the listening experience is not the simplest to articulate. Yet we can begin to pull at the strands, to see what exuberant stars and hungry black holes make up this immense electronic cosmos.
Gulls takes cues from early dub, dancehall, and sound system culture, blowing basic pieces of music into astronomical proportions, into mammoth versions with their own savage lives. As even the forefront of today’s electronic music scene finds itself compartmentalized by genre and sub-genre, the boundary-less compositional voice and healthy swagger of Gulls is thrilling. The EP also features KRANKY recording artist and sonic voyageur Strategy, whose remix of “Mean Sound” blasts things into another galaxy entirely.
This Gulls offering represents BOOMARM NATION’s first in a limited series of 12″ EPs highlighting Portland’s progressive musical liberators.
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