- Jon McMillion (l) and Jeremy Grant of Nuearth Kitchen (r)
It’s being made by Jon McMillion and Nuearth Kitchen:
Toward that end, he’s launching NEK with Seattle producer Jon McMillion’s Jon McMillion LP, a sprawling 13-track double LP that drops this month. (An EP featuring remixes by San Proper, Vakula, and Juju & Jordash follows soon after.) McMillion issued two outstanding left-field techno 12-inches for Orac and a digital EP for Adjunct, but his debut full-length represents a huge creative leap for the man. Jon McMillion LP strikes an Afro-eccentric chord akin to Shabazz Palaces’ work, but it’s tailored for techno/house-music afterparties rather than hiphop happenings. The pervasive hauntological drift of McMillion’s productions suggests deep immersion in psychedelia and cosmic jazz (McMillion’s father was a jazz guitarist whose record collection influenced his son’s aesthetics) plus house and disco’s more idiosyncratic spectra.
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