Personal Computer Music 1997-2022

Reclusive Melbourne electronic figure Jeremy Dower announces a quarter century-spanning compilation of previously unreleased music, split into halves to showcase his unpronounceable 90s ambient techno project Tetrphnm, as well as the wistful faux-jazz recordings made subsequently under his own name. Personal Computer Music, 1997-2022 is the culmination of Chapter Music’s ongoing reissue series for Jeremy. In August, Chapter made his earlier albums available digitally for the first time ever – Sentimental Dance Music For Couples (originally released in 2000 via US label Plug Research, home to releases by Flying Lotus and Jon Tejada) and Music For the Young and the Restless (originally released in 2004 on Japanese imprint Bit Of Heaven). Inspired at first by austere German techno such as Monolake and Mouse on Mars, Jeremy’s sound world grew to take in influences as various as The Sea and Cake, Joao Gilberto, Jaki Liebezeit and Alain Goraguer. But Jeremy worked through these touchstones all alone on the other side of the world, improvising systems of “subtractive composition” via cheap 90s sound cards, 12 bit samplers and banked noise gates. His music evolved in a parallel but separate world to genres later called IDM or Microhouse, but really it sounds like nothing but Jeremy Dower – magically inventive, touching and personal. Efficient Space comped a Tetrphnm track on their much-loved 2018 compilation of 90s Australian electronica 3AM Spares. But Personal Computer Music, 1997-2022 is your first chance to explore Jeremy Dower’s compelling musical history with the depth it deserves. For fans of Mouse On Mars, Plone, Monolake.