Tadd Mullinix will release a new EP as JTC via Ghostly’s Spectral Sound next month. 

While historically tagged as Mullinix’s acid house alias, JTC has always expressed with a more pliable sense of genre, freely fusing an eclectic blend of classic electronic sounds; expect helpings of Chicago acid, Belgian new beat, and the left-field techno stylings popularized both in Berlin and Detroit. With Indigo, Flesh and Fire, we’re told that Mullinix moves closer to the latter city, adopting a bright, optimistic tone informed by minimalism and futurism.

Since completing his two-decade-long hip-hop trilogy as Dabrye in 2018, Mullinix—the Ann Arbor-based artist and Bopside label head—has engaged his arsenal of aliases with renewed heat. He debuted X-Altera, a new project flexing a hybrid of drum & bass and deep techno, last year, and now he’s back to JTC, formerly James T. Cotton, a moniker that dates back as far as Dabrye and helped define Spectral Sound, Ghostly’s dance imprint. The alias last appeared on the label in 2013. 

We’re told that the EP is packed, but still playfully ambiguous. It’s made of five tracks, each with a roughly five-minute run-time. 

Pressings are limited to 300. 

Indigo, Flesh and Fire EP lands August 2, with the title-track streaming below, and pre-order here. 

Tracklisting

01. Innerloire Rendezvous

02. Varastride

03. Indigo, Flesh and Fire

04. Renneswind

05. Surging on Chapinero’s Edge