Released on Wah Wah Wino, the LP *Sworx* by Morgan Buckley & Ben Donohoe unfolds a deliberately cool, futuristic stance: paranoid, polyrhythmic structures collide with dense, synthetically crafted textures. Under the mischievous concept of a classified dial-up modem instance named “Sworx,” encoded waveforms are filtered and sorted into an imaginary archive; the label’s collective ethos runs through the album and suggests the surveillance of the dream world as a working thesis.
Buckley and Donohoe work in changing constellations for the label and are known in the scene for their use of analog modular gear and playful electronics. The duo also appears under the name Little Movies; their work links abstract sound sketches with precise, rolling patterns and a palpable kinship to experimental techno and krautrock traditions. This distinctive touch makes the tracks as enigmatic as they are catchy.
Musically, *Sworx* moves between IDM-like waveforms, wavetable-based synth textures, and driving, almost collective rhythmic layers. Individual tracks such as “OpportuniXt,” “The System Works,” “Western_intel [ frontier 2056 ]” and the closing “Mastering The Internet” showcase a range that stretches from fragmented grooves to expansive, modulated passages. For listeners interested in experimental electronics with a narrative concept, this LP stands as a clear statement within Wah Wah Wino’s program.