Heatsick is the project of musician and visual artist Steven Warwick, whose new album, 'Re-engineering', is out now on PAN.
Using a Casio keyboard, a myriad of effects, vocals and percussion, Warwick's music is created in real time based upon loops that are moulded, stretched and reduced to interlink, nestling and merging with one another in a similar way to his visual artwork, where objects and media combine and coalesce in an environment inviting the viewer's participation. Combining a palette of sources from early Chicago house mixtapes (in sound, texture AND mixing technique) through to musique concrète and psychedelia, – has been favourably received at venues, clubs and festivals across the world.
Warwick proposes a live dance music that expands and unlocks the senses: his use of limited resources to produce an immersive, maximalist sound environment is stretched beyond three hours and augmented by elements of his broader multi-sensory art practice for his Extended Play... performance-installation series, which, since being premiered at Unsound Festival in Krakow, Poland, has been presented in diverse club/art contexts including CTM at Berghain in Berlin, The Cube Cinema in Bristol and Werkleitz Festival in Halle.
The most recent Heatsick album 'Re-engineering' is described as a "cybernetic poem", indulging us in the mores of hypnotic dance music while holding a critical, and at times satirical, lens toward the culture writ large.
