Call Super

Joseph Richmond-Seaton, better known under the Call Super moniker, earns praise for crafting inventive techno cuts alongside expansive, atmospheric albums that push experimental boundaries. Emerging in the early 2010s with a string of unconventional and inquisitive club releases, the artist shifted toward ambient techno on the 2014 album Suzi Ecto before developing that approach further with the rich, earthy textures of 2017’s Arpo. Though intricate and hypnotic club-focused records remain part of the output—including joint singles alongside Beatrice Dillon and Parris—Richmond-Seaton continues to probe fresh territory through abstract, occasionally jazzy full-lengths such as 2023’s Eulo Cramps.

London-born and Berlin-based, the producer shapes experimental dance music that balances smoothness and lushness with undercurrents of melancholy and tension, echoing numerous 1990s Warp artists and second-wave Detroit techno figures while adapting those influences to today’s underground scene. The 2011 Staircase EP on Five Easy Pieces marked the first appearance, followed by No Episode on Throne of Blood in 2012. Remixes for Mock & Toof, Dillon, and Renaissance Man also appeared during this period. The 2013 EP The Present Tense became the debut release on Fabric’s sister label Houndstooth, after which the harder, electro-tinged 12"s Black Octagons and Depicta/Acephale II surfaced. Suzi Ecto served as the first full-length in 2014, steering the sound toward freer, less dancefloor-oriented forms than earlier singles and EPs. That same year the Ondo Fudd alias debuted via the Coup d'État EP on Trilogy Tapes. Under the Call Super name, Migrant on Houndstooth and Fluenka Mitsu on Nous both arrived in 2015.

Nervous Sex Traffic on Dekmantel and New Life Tones on Houndstooth followed in 2016, alongside a second Ondo Fudd EP titled Blue Dot on Trilogy Tapes and the Elmo Crumb project I’m Still Dizzy. Fabric 92, the artist’s contribution to the long-running mix series, appeared in 2017, as did the Hessle Audio 12" Inkjet with Beatrice Dillon and the second album Arpo. The 2019 single “All We Have Is Speed” came out on Shanti Celeste’s Peach Discs. A two-track collaboration with Parris titled CANUFEELTHESUNONYRBACK launched the namesake imprint, later shortened to Can You Feel the Sun; solo album Every Mouth Teeth Missing arrived on Anthony Naples’ Incienso in 2020, followed by a second Parris joint, Design of a Body Sublime. The complex experimental techno EPs Cherry Drops I and II appeared in 2021, succeeded by the exuberant Swallow Me in 2022. The ambitious 2023 full-length Eulo Cramps, issued on Can You Feel the Sun, included guest vocals from Julia Holter, Eden Samara, and Elke Wardlaw.