Timer

Originally a member of electronica duo clickits, John McCaffrey moved from Accrington in the north west of England to Melbourne, Australia and started a solo project as Part Timer. Concentrating on a mixture of delicate folk flavours and electronic augmentation, Part Timer has released albums on moteer, flau and lost tribe sound. Collaborations with multi-instrumentalist Aaron Martin have been released on mobeer and under the spire. McCaffrey has also released music under the names Scissors and Sellotape (on cotton goods) and Upward Arrows (on under the spire)…

We really have to come up with a name for this stuff. You know, that sort of deconstructed fragmented pop, glitchy crumbling, fuzzed out ambient weirdness, everything blurry and buzzy and soft focus. Jeck, Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Machinefabriek, Jasper TX, and now Part Timer. It's another one of those sounds, the kind of sounds we can't ever get enough of, just like super hard ragga jungle or buzzy drone-y black metal, it's a sound that we are absolutely in love with. If we could figure out away to make these records go on forever and ever and ever we surely would (for now, the repeat button will have to suffice)…

This Aaron Martin's CD on Under the Spire features his tracks being reworked by Part Timer and it's called Grass Rewound. This CD is pretty nice, with the melancholy originals given an extra layer of sadness through the looping repetitions of the weepiest of strings and the super plaintive piano. Sadness electronically augmented.