My Sol Dark Direction

Although James Pennington has been a part of Detroit’s electronic music community since the mid-80s, he only released his debut album My Sol Dark Direction in 2003. Made up of previously released and new material, it includes his early 90s classics The Art of Stalking and Nocturbulous Behavior. My Sol Dark Direction is very much in the urban-ennui/modern-loneliness Detroit techno tradition, with a wonderfully melancholic minor chord palette and generally gloomy outlook, matched with raw, grinding, machine rhythm-patterns. It’s a strong techno collection showing the breadth of talent from a lesser-known Detroit figure.