Call Super

Primarily known as Call Super, Joseph Richmond-Seaton receives acclaim for their inventive techno tracks and atmospheric, experimental full-lengths. First appearing with several curious, unconventional club records during the early 2010s, they branched out with the ambient techno full-length Suzi Ecto (2014), and expanded on this sound with the lush, organic Arpo in 2017. While they still produce intricate, hypnotic records designed for clubs, including singles with <a href="spotify:artist:14H1XUmtWYzRHCQDkoee97">Beatrice Dillon</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:438TWpixWUH0KLP6ARfymt">Parris</a>, they explore uncharted terrain with abstract, sometimes jazzy albums such as Eulo Cramps (2023).

Originally from London but based in Berlin, Richmond-Seaton crafts experimental dance music that is often smooth and lush yet also melancholy and tense, recalling numerous '90s <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Warp%22">Warp</a> and second-wave Detroit techno artists but updated for the current underground dance scene. They debuted in 2011 with the Staircase EP on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Five+Easy+Pieces%22">Five Easy Pieces</a>, which was followed by No Episode on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Throne+of+Blood%22">Throne of Blood</a> (2012). They also remixed tracks by <a href="spotify:artist:0vGgiPJGe69ZTxWjae6vcH">Mock & Toof</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6oyGMaD0Kbx3ynXKhzH2wW">Dillon</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:2qMfIKKKzZTjrr4CdjVuKW">Renaissance Man</a>. Call Super's 2013 EP The Present Tense was the inaugural release on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Fabric%22">Fabric</a>'s sister label <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Houndstooth%22">Houndstooth</a>. This was followed by the harder, electro-influenced 12"s Black Octagons and Depicta/Acephale II. They made their full-length debut with 2014's Suzi Ecto, which took Call Super's sound in a more free-form, less club-oriented direction than their singles and EPs. Also that year, they premiered the Ondo Fudd alias with an EP on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22the+Trilogy+Tapes%22">the Trilogy Tapes</a> called Coup d'État. As Call Super, they released Migrant (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Houndstooth%22">Houndstooth</a>) and Fluenka Mitsu (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Nous%22">Nous</a>) in 2015.

The year 2016 brought Nervous Sex Traffic (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Dekmantel%22">Dekmantel</a>) and New Life Tones (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Houndstooth%22">Houndstooth</a>). They also returned to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22the+Trilogy+Tapes%22">the Trilogy Tapes</a> for another Ondo Fudd EP, Blue Dot, as well as I'm Still Dizzy as Elmo Crumb. In 2017, Call Super's installment of <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Fabric%22">Fabric</a>'s long-running mix CD series, Fabric 92, was issued. Inkjet, a 12" in collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:14H1XUmtWYzRHCQDkoee97">Beatrice Dillon</a>, appeared on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Hessle+Audio%22">Hessle Audio</a>. Call Super's sophomore full-length, Arpo, followed later that year. They then appeared on <a href="spotify:artist:3CkM2290WOa2ESzhlu5mzM">Shanti Celeste</a>'s <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Peach+Discs%22">Peach Discs</a> with the 2019 single "All We Have Is Speed."

Call Super and <a href="spotify:artist:438TWpixWUH0KLP6ARfymt">Parris</a> collaborated for the two-song CANUFEELTHESUNONYRBACK, issued on an imprint of the same name (later shortened to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Can+You+Feel+the+Sun%22">Can You Feel the Sun</a>). Solo full-length Every Mouth Teeth Missing appeared on <a href="spotify:artist:20bB5IFRjHw1EIAHvZ3tgd">Anthony Naples</a>' <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Incienso%22">Incienso</a> label in 2020, and the producer released a second record with <a href="spotify:artist:438TWpixWUH0KLP6ARfymt">Parris</a>, Design of a Body Sublime. Cherry Drops I and II, a pair of complex experimental techno EPs, appeared in 2021, and the exuberant Swallow Me followed in 2022. The ambitious full-length Eulo Cramps, featuring guest vocals from <a href="spotify:artist:0bsV0sUjnCuCTYOnNHQl3E">Julia Holter</a>, Eden Samara, and Elke Wardlaw, was released by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Can+You+Feel+the+Sun%22">Can You Feel the Sun</a> in 2023. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi