Ladies and gentlemen - this is Implosion Quintet. “We” are actually just “I”, a wry slice of misinformation that began in jest many years ago but, through curious inertia, continues unto this very day.


Been writing music seriously for about 15 years, and a hark back through it all shows that it’s been in a continual state of flux since the beginning. IQ coughed into life back in 2001, starting as a low-tech hippidy hop thing mashed together inside a Playstation. Despite these humble beginnings, a determined demo campaign saw several releases of this material via Brighton’s Cookshop Records, a long-term relationship that ultimately lead to the ‘Yesterday album.
Stylistically speaking, the last few years have seen swift changes, the PS2-era work morphing into cinematic spy-jazz, into the current schizo blend of tango-sludge-electro-jazz-trash. (And yes, creating genres is achingly pretentious but see if you can find a genre this wonk files under...)


Being self-taught, IQ is music theory-less and composed instead in terms of contrasting texture – light vs. dark, dense vs. sparse and so on and so forth. Everything is kept rough, not from ineptitude or laziness, but as a reaction to today’s obnoxious love affair with audio airbrushing, and a concurrent realisation that continually chasing studio-clean values was stifling creativity - crackle and hum is the way forward.


As IQ is a studio project, and I've absolutely no clue how to translate this work into a live situation there is no live band. However, there are murmurs of a duo that may end up on the stage...