MICROCORPS - Alexander Tucker's new album launches with collab with Justin K Broadrick - Clear Vortex Chamber, out 19 Sep on Downwards Records
MICROCORPSALEXANDER TUCKER’S NEW ALBUM,
CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER
OUT 19 SEPTEMBER 2025 ON DOWNWARDS RECORDS
LISTEN TO LAUNCH TRACK, ‘ FEDBCK ’ FEAT. JUSTIN K BROADRICK
LONDON LIVE SHOW – 17 JULY AT ALL IS JOY , SOHOSUPPORTING CABARET VOLTAIRE AT BRIGHTON ACCA ON 22 NOV
[MICROCORPS credit Agnes Haus]
Alexander Tucker’s electronic guise MICROCORPS returns with CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER , set for release on Downwards Records on 19 September 2025.
Featuring collaborations with Justin K Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, J K Flesh), Phew, Regis (Sandwell District, British Murder Boys, Eros), Elvin Brandhi, Karl D’Silva and JJOWDY, the album follows up 2021’s debut, Xmit (Alter Records) and 2024’s Macrocorpse tape (The Tapeworm). On the new album Tucker continues to develop work around modular systems, cello, bass guitar and voice, creating tracks of heavy electronics, that meld machine rhythms with acoustic samples. CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER combines techno, contemporary composition, drone and vocal manipulations to create a dense and often psychedelic world.
Listen to ‘Fedbck’ ft. Justin K Broadrick HERE
CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER charts a new period of exploration and discovery for Tucker both as musician and producer. After discarding a year’s worth of material, Tucker sought the advice of Downwards Records label boss Karl O’Connor aka Regis who advised him on production techniques and approach. Along with further support form Freddy Lomas of Kinn and Emptyset’s James Ginzburg, Tucker got to work on a new set of material with a heightened sense of clarity and density. Tucker explains “Making this album really tested me, it was the outcome of a long period of hard lessons and harsh realities, but I had some good friends to guide me along the way and pull me out of the mire.”
At the core of MICROCORPS is Tucker’s complex modular systems, knitted into the tracks are triggered samples of his own cello and bass guitar playing, which meld into the electronic fabric of each track. Tucker expands “I wanted the album to sit somewhere between machine technology with something primitive, where synthetic and acoustic sources become intertwined. I like the idea of different dimensions phasing in and out of one another, creating new areas where I can explore sound, structures and imaginary spaces”
These imaginary spaces play a key role in the construction of CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER. Tucker’s background in fine art and his current work with experimental comics bleeds into the unspoken landscapes of his music. “I want to trigger parts of the brain that can dream up imagery whilst at the same time focus of the sonic structure of the music itself, I guess I’m still obsessed with trying to create some sort of psychoactive environment” The architecture of each track presents itself in the form of massive kicks, sonar clicks and kinetic percussive rhythms, supported by pulsing bass drones. Cello and bass guitar samples initially bowed, plucked and hit by mallets are triggered creating dense wooden timbres that punctuate the electronic field. Voices and vocals both treated and untreated weave throughout the album in the form of cryptic dialogues and unspooling wordless singing, adding to the cross pollination of something human, machine and a space in-between.Collaboration is a key element to MICROCORPS. Justin K Broadrick’s heavy spidery guitar lines and processed screaming rip wormholes in ‘FEDBCK’, Regis lends his distinct vocal work to ‘ZONA’, Japanese artist Phew injects organ drones, vocals and fried electronics throughout ‘SANSU’. On penultimate track ‘FEBCK 2’, Karl D’Silva’s droning saxophone joins Broadrick’s feed backing guitar noise and improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist Elvin Brandhi spits out cut up diatribes across final track ‘MALLETS’. Throughout the album Tucker’s own processed voice sits alongside singer JJOWDY’s eerily gentle laments.
MICROCORPS will perform for the OBLIQUE_FUTURES Soho Series on Thursday 17 July at All Is Joy, Soho on a bill with Atom Truck and Xylitol, and is set to support Cabaret Voltaire at Brighton ACCA on Saturday 22 November.
CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER tracklisting 1. UDUG2. FEDBCK ft. JUSTIN K BROADRICK 3. FOLDED4. VAV5. ZONA ft. REGIS6. SANSU ft. PHEW7. FEDBCK 2 ft. JUSTIN K BROADRICK & KARL D’SILVA8. MALLETS ft. ELVIN BRANDHI
MICROCORPS LIVE17 July – London, OBLIQUE_FUTURES, All is Joy, Soho22 Nov – Brighton, ACCA, with Cabaret Voltaire (SOLD OUT)
Pre-order the album HERE
High res artwork and press photographs HERE
Press assets HERE
CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER’s artwork, created by Tucker, uses cryptic imagery to symbolise both process and imaginary spaces. The cover uses a mixed media of pencil, ink, pen work, and digital blurring of ink paintings.
MICROCORPS CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER is released by Downwards Records on vinyl and digitally on 19 September 2025
RECENT PRAISE FOR MICROCORPS
“MICROCORPS strikes a delicate balance between perfect order and utter chaos...” - The Quietus
“High-concept electronics innovator” - Electronic Sound
“Tucker’s solo work often explores territories that are closer to the urgent disarray of MICROCORPS but… the presence of vocals - however heavily processed - usually ensures that vast electronics never descend into disorder.” - The Wire
“Built from microprocessed vocals, strings and electronics, driven by beats with a chilly, pulsar sweep… suggests decidedly alien terrain…” - 7/10 Uncut
“XMIT’s unsettling, perversely enthralling world is such that comparison with H.R. Geiger’s biomechanics art is almost unavoidable…” - 4/5* NARC
“Tucker evokes a very ritualistic and eerily anachronistic feel… all still guided by an eldritch psychedelic muse that’s at the root of everything he touches” Boomkat
ALEXANDER TUCKER - SELECT DISCOGRAPHY MICROCORPS – Macrocorpse 2021-2024 (The Tapeworm 2024)Alexander Tucker & Keith Collins, Fifth Continent (Subtext, 2023)Brood X Cycles - , with Nik Colk Void (State51, 2022)NONEXISTENT - S/T - with Astrud Steehouder and Luke J Murray (Downwards, 2021)MICROCORPS - XMIT (Alter, 2021)Alexander Tucker - Guild of the Asbestos Weaver (Thrill Jockey, 2019)Astral Social Club and Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra - Plasma Splice Trifle (VHF Records, 2019)Alexander Tucker - Don’t Look Away (Thrill Jockey, 2018)Charlemagne Palestine and Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra - Omminggg and Schlomminggg (Important Records, 2017)Grumbling Fur Furfour (Thrill Jockey, 2016)
Connect with Alexander Tucker:Instagram – Bluesky – Twitter – Bandcamp
LISTEN TO LAUNCH TRACK, ‘ FEDBCK ’ FEAT. JUSTIN K BROADRICK
LONDON LIVE SHOW – 17 JULY AT ALL IS JOY , SOHOSUPPORTING CABARET VOLTAIRE AT BRIGHTON ACCA ON 22 NOV
[MICROCORPS credit Agnes Haus]
Alexander Tucker’s electronic guise MICROCORPS returns with CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER , set for release on Downwards Records on 19 September 2025.
Featuring collaborations with Justin K Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, J K Flesh), Phew, Regis (Sandwell District, British Murder Boys, Eros), Elvin Brandhi, Karl D’Silva and JJOWDY, the album follows up 2021’s debut, Xmit (Alter Records) and 2024’s Macrocorpse tape (The Tapeworm). On the new album Tucker continues to develop work around modular systems, cello, bass guitar and voice, creating tracks of heavy electronics, that meld machine rhythms with acoustic samples. CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER combines techno, contemporary composition, drone and vocal manipulations to create a dense and often psychedelic world.
Listen to ‘Fedbck’ ft. Justin K Broadrick HERE
CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER charts a new period of exploration and discovery for Tucker both as musician and producer. After discarding a year’s worth of material, Tucker sought the advice of Downwards Records label boss Karl O’Connor aka Regis who advised him on production techniques and approach. Along with further support form Freddy Lomas of Kinn and Emptyset’s James Ginzburg, Tucker got to work on a new set of material with a heightened sense of clarity and density. Tucker explains “Making this album really tested me, it was the outcome of a long period of hard lessons and harsh realities, but I had some good friends to guide me along the way and pull me out of the mire.”
At the core of MICROCORPS is Tucker’s complex modular systems, knitted into the tracks are triggered samples of his own cello and bass guitar playing, which meld into the electronic fabric of each track. Tucker expands “I wanted the album to sit somewhere between machine technology with something primitive, where synthetic and acoustic sources become intertwined. I like the idea of different dimensions phasing in and out of one another, creating new areas where I can explore sound, structures and imaginary spaces”
These imaginary spaces play a key role in the construction of CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER. Tucker’s background in fine art and his current work with experimental comics bleeds into the unspoken landscapes of his music. “I want to trigger parts of the brain that can dream up imagery whilst at the same time focus of the sonic structure of the music itself, I guess I’m still obsessed with trying to create some sort of psychoactive environment” The architecture of each track presents itself in the form of massive kicks, sonar clicks and kinetic percussive rhythms, supported by pulsing bass drones. Cello and bass guitar samples initially bowed, plucked and hit by mallets are triggered creating dense wooden timbres that punctuate the electronic field. Voices and vocals both treated and untreated weave throughout the album in the form of cryptic dialogues and unspooling wordless singing, adding to the cross pollination of something human, machine and a space in-between.Collaboration is a key element to MICROCORPS. Justin K Broadrick’s heavy spidery guitar lines and processed screaming rip wormholes in ‘FEDBCK’, Regis lends his distinct vocal work to ‘ZONA’, Japanese artist Phew injects organ drones, vocals and fried electronics throughout ‘SANSU’. On penultimate track ‘FEBCK 2’, Karl D’Silva’s droning saxophone joins Broadrick’s feed backing guitar noise and improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist Elvin Brandhi spits out cut up diatribes across final track ‘MALLETS’. Throughout the album Tucker’s own processed voice sits alongside singer JJOWDY’s eerily gentle laments.
MICROCORPS will perform for the OBLIQUE_FUTURES Soho Series on Thursday 17 July at All Is Joy, Soho on a bill with Atom Truck and Xylitol, and is set to support Cabaret Voltaire at Brighton ACCA on Saturday 22 November.
CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER tracklisting 1. UDUG2. FEDBCK ft. JUSTIN K BROADRICK 3. FOLDED4. VAV5. ZONA ft. REGIS6. SANSU ft. PHEW7. FEDBCK 2 ft. JUSTIN K BROADRICK & KARL D’SILVA8. MALLETS ft. ELVIN BRANDHI
MICROCORPS LIVE17 July – London, OBLIQUE_FUTURES, All is Joy, Soho22 Nov – Brighton, ACCA, with Cabaret Voltaire (SOLD OUT)
Pre-order the album HERE
High res artwork and press photographs HERE
Press assets HERE
CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER’s artwork, created by Tucker, uses cryptic imagery to symbolise both process and imaginary spaces. The cover uses a mixed media of pencil, ink, pen work, and digital blurring of ink paintings.
MICROCORPS CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER is released by Downwards Records on vinyl and digitally on 19 September 2025
RECENT PRAISE FOR MICROCORPS
“MICROCORPS strikes a delicate balance between perfect order and utter chaos...” - The Quietus
“High-concept electronics innovator” - Electronic Sound
“Tucker’s solo work often explores territories that are closer to the urgent disarray of MICROCORPS but… the presence of vocals - however heavily processed - usually ensures that vast electronics never descend into disorder.” - The Wire
“Built from microprocessed vocals, strings and electronics, driven by beats with a chilly, pulsar sweep… suggests decidedly alien terrain…” - 7/10 Uncut
“XMIT’s unsettling, perversely enthralling world is such that comparison with H.R. Geiger’s biomechanics art is almost unavoidable…” - 4/5* NARC
“Tucker evokes a very ritualistic and eerily anachronistic feel… all still guided by an eldritch psychedelic muse that’s at the root of everything he touches” Boomkat
ALEXANDER TUCKER - SELECT DISCOGRAPHY MICROCORPS – Macrocorpse 2021-2024 (The Tapeworm 2024)Alexander Tucker & Keith Collins, Fifth Continent (Subtext, 2023)Brood X Cycles - , with Nik Colk Void (State51, 2022)NONEXISTENT - S/T - with Astrud Steehouder and Luke J Murray (Downwards, 2021)MICROCORPS - XMIT (Alter, 2021)Alexander Tucker - Guild of the Asbestos Weaver (Thrill Jockey, 2019)Astral Social Club and Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra - Plasma Splice Trifle (VHF Records, 2019)Alexander Tucker - Don’t Look Away (Thrill Jockey, 2018)Charlemagne Palestine and Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra - Omminggg and Schlomminggg (Important Records, 2017)Grumbling Fur Furfour (Thrill Jockey, 2016)
Connect with Alexander Tucker:Instagram – Bluesky – Twitter – Bandcamp
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