In the late naughties, music fans around the world were enraptured by the sound of Burial. The music was quickly categorized as future garage, but cultural theorist Mark Fisher had a theory for the music's specific magic: "sonic hauntology," or music that uses elements of the past to conjure a future that never happened. "When the present has given up on the future," Fisher wrote, "we must listen for the relics of the future in the unactivated potentials of the past." Roam, an artist out of Toronto, creates his own brand of sonic hauntology.
Undeniably inspired by Burial, who is himself indebted to UK garage, 2-step, rave, and jungle, Roam creates his own lost futures with these elements.
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