The year is 2082. Joey Rogers is a Teenage Tech head whose dream is to unplug from reality and jam in the style of his MIDI equipped ancestors….

When Joel Ford and Daniel Lopatin met in sixth grade, they bonded by drawing album covers for fictional bands. Ford and Lopatin forged together over jazz-fusion tapes, blasting tracks from Dan's father's collection of dubbed Return to Forever and Mahavishnu Orchestra c90s. “Years later it was Prefuse 73 and Matthew Herbert, but jazz fusion was what we really geeked out on when we were kids,” admits Lopatin.

Despite the span of years and a period when the two were living in separate cities, (Daniel in Boston, Joel in NYC), the duo’s obsession with synthesizers, 80s jazz-fusion, "Berlin school" cosmic music and space disco from labels like Sky, Innovative Communications and ECM grew stronger. Simultaneously, both Dan & Joel were immersed in their own personal projects– Joel with Tigercity and Daniel with Oneohtrix Point Never, when they started to send each other tracks via the Internet.

"Channel Pressure", the production duo’s debut full-length album is a highly focused study in the effects of consumer electronics that touches on sensual bangers and hyper-spherical anthems prime for the dance floor. The record was engineered by another childhood pal, Al Carlson, and mixed by Prefuse 73 who states: "Mixing these ideas that span from high school notebooks into a present sonic territory is F+L's right on conceptual evolution."

There's a fantastical, futuristic narrative arc running hard throughout the album. As a result, "Channel Pressure" functions somewhat as a concept album, following a loosely knit epic involving a teenage anti-hero (Joey Rogers), violent robo-jocks, and a record industry run by a super computer.

1. Scumsoft
2. Channel Pressure
3. Emergency Room
4. Rock Center Paranoia
5. Too Much Midi (Please Forgive Me)
6. New Planet
7. The Voices
8. Joey Rogers
9. Dead Jammer
10. Break Inside
11. Surrender
12. Green Fields
13. World Of Regret
14. G's Dream