Vacuum releases EP on Detroit’s Blank Artists imprint

Vacuum releases EP on Detroit’s Blank Artists imprint

18 February, 2008 | 8.44AM

• Section: Music News
• Written by: joshdahlberg

Gibson’s Revenge is Vacuum’s second appearance with Blank Artists and this time he has supporting help from our comrade, Keith Kemp.

Known for his funky rhythms and as shaking bass lines, Vacuum’s release is a sure fire way to destruct a dance floor.

Kemp’s remix serves up a more laid back and groovy take on the spastic Gibson’s Revenge.

As a formality, Vacuum has assumed the alias Vacuum From Detroit because of conflictions with the world of psy-trance.

Make no mistake about it, this is straight up funky techno, not psy-trance.

Vacuum From Detroit is Matt Abbott, aka Vacuum (consequently from Detroit).

Let’s be clear — Vacuum is a dirtbag.

A dirtbag and a burnout, in fact.

Truth be told, the only thing separating Matt Abbott (aka Vacuum) from your run-of-the-mill, drug addled, lowlife, redneck, hoodrat motherfucker is that he is the owner of a laptop computer and a stellar record collection.

With these two resources, a good ear, and a brain wired for weird, Vacuum turns out quirky, funky, techno and house jams, as well as disco re-edits and the odd yacht rock/coke rock compilations.

Matt Abbott’s got more pseudonyms than can be listed here (snaps+handclaps-shank-vance hattaway-etc), and has remained a bright light in Detroit’s on-again, off-again, party scene since the mid 1990s as a DJ, live act and party promoter.

Keep Vacuum on drugs and out of the gutter, buy his music.

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