Balding, slightly overweight journalist and WFMU DJ named Jason Forrest, Summer works in a manner encompassing every IDM-trend to come along in the past decade-- drill-n-bass, gabba, tigerbeat6-esque laptop trickery, plunderphonics-- all are fair game for Summer to destroy and recontextualize. Part of a loose collective of sample-fiends, including Giorgio Marauder (AKA END) and Duran Duran Duran, all working under the nom de electronique "cock-rock disco," Summer and crew are proponents of what Forrest refers to in a recent Vice Magazine piece as "the new computer music." Musically speaking, these acts have little to do with traditional disco, and while computers surely factor in heavily, things never get too tech-geeky.
