Biography
Providence, Rhode Island native Davey Harms crafts noisy experimental techno via the World War alias. His productions weave intricate sonic networks threaded with supple polyrhythms, lighthearted lo-fi samples, and seething layers of distortion alongside feedback. Recognition first arrived in underground circles for Harms’s earlier guise as Mincemeat or Tenspeed, a forward-thinking noise endeavor that generated intensely rhythmic, sometimes dancefloor-oriented material relying solely on mixers and pedals rather than synthesizers, computers, sequencers, or conventional instruments. Under the Mincemeat banner several albums and EPs surfaced on Deathbomb Arc and Zum, while the project crisscrossed the United States playing basements and intimate venues, drawing admiration from Dan Deacon as well as outlets including Pitchfork and The Village Voice. With the arrival of the 2014 full-length Waiting for Surfin’ Bird the endeavor began folding synthesizers and samplers into its abrasive, high-energy arrangements. Once that record appeared Harms retired the Mincemeat project; his subsequent outing, 2016’s Cables issued by Hausu Mountain, surfaced under his legal name. Not long afterward the World War identity surfaced via the More Records release Jumz. The follow-up World War effort, Soundsystem, emerged on Hausu Mountain in 2017.
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