Brutalist architecture in Bosnia behind Gearwatcher electronic music, with socialist modernist ruins and industrial decay hauntology atmosphere.
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ABOUT // DOSSIER

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IDENTITY TRACE

IDENTIFIER
GEARWATCHER
LOCATION
BOSNIA // POST-YUGOSLAV INTERIOR
STATUS
ACTIVE // OBSERVANT

[1998-2004] THE ORIGIN OF GHOSTS THAT HAUNT

Uncredited engineering and ghost-production in the early post-war Balkan rave scene.

Rhythms that circulated under alternative names.

[2004-2017] LOST IN THE MACHINE

System hiatus. Integration into the engineering sector. Years spent monitoring networks and grids, developing solutions, and observing decaying infrastructure.

[2018-PRESENT] REACTIVATION

  • 2018The flame rekindled.
  • 2021'Lost In The Machine' LP.
  • 2021-Active participant in the 'Embers Breaks' movement (on Dogs On Acid forum) and a series of independent EP releases.
  • 2024'II' LP.
  • 2026Released music for Dubs on Acid vol.3 charity project on Keeping Track.

METHODOLOGY

The structural collage of brutalism, abandonment, and the raving "Age of Hope". Breakbeats as ear candy, atmospheres as weight, melody/harmony as storytelling.

Nothing Gearwatcher says about himself should be taken at face value.

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