JH-X9, the solo electronic music project of Metro–Detroit, Michigan-based artist and musician Justin Horbes, “fuses concepts found across the wide landscape of electronic music, creating a sound that is moody, mechanical, and instantly danceable.”
With three self-released LPs under his belt, the first, “Manufactured World,” in 2016, when still in High School, JH-X9 builds anticipation for the incoming April 2026 new album, “Behind the Firewall,” with an Official Music Video, directed and edited by Justin Horbes himself, for the new single, “GMO.”
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Drawing from the futuristic analog synth sounds of the 80s New Wave and Techno-Industrial dance music, “GMO” constructs a lively neon surreality combining driving stacked marching beats and droning distorted bass throbs with colorful crisp intervals of bittersweet synth melodies, that chime, flash and swirl around layers of aloof gloomy vocals, bitterly stating, “I’ll smash the world to bits and give the pieces to you.”
In the Official DIY Music Video, a theatrical, dissociative set cast in inkblot coagulations, fog machine obscurity, and a green wall of cyber digits sets the stage for JH-X9 to perform “GMO” dressed in an array of mysterious outfits. The personas are thoughtful and evocative, rousing archetypes from the 80s, whilst the creative use of lighting, space and décor seamlessly brings forth distinct locations.
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