Patch Notes: Jas Shaw 2021

Jas Shaw will be known to many for the club music hes made as one half of Simian Mobile Disco since 2003. In recent years, hes build up an enviable solo catalogue of melodic techno and ambient, most notably the 25track Exquisite Cops series released between 2019 and 2020. Earlier this year, Shaw started a new project, Sollbruchstelle, which comprises three EPs that will eventually be collected on an album of the same name. Shaw has been collecting synths since the early 00s, having previously played keyboard in Simian, the band that spawned Simain Mobile Disco, and the experimental approach taken across Sollbruchstelle is the culmination of many years of tinkering with modular synthesis and unusual hardware and software. On this episode of Patch Notes, Shaw gives us a unique insight into his composition process for the Sollbruchstelle project, as he records a session in his studio with some of the key instruments and hardware used in its production, including Analogue Systems modules, Cirklo