Kit Clayton is a basement freak. With little sunlight and musty air, there he spends long days and late nights staring endlessly into the 1024 by 768 pixel grid, toggling the monitor switch back and forth between computers, between operating systems, drifting between work and music. He forgets which of these similar activities he is currently engaged in, as his work is typically constituted by typing line after line of code, and his music is manipulating row after row of digital audio tracks. An embarrassingly digital life, not untypical in our unfortunate age of technological dependence. Somehow sad, but nonetheless beyond the point of judgement. It’s all he knows, and rather than being a soulless, sterile life, it is an environment which encourages his emotional expression. From this hole, he has poured himself into music for labels such as phthalo, cytrax, delay, drop beat, mille plateaux, parallel, plug research, ~scape, and vertical form. From minimal techno to melancholic dub to structured noise, kit consistently abuses technology, manipulating sounds in otherworldly ways, following an old tradition of dub production. Phthalo has released Kit Clayton’s “Live On Shortwave Radio” (1999), and under his moniker 4mod3, “A Translation Of Simplicity” (1999).