Future Rock

paul dickow aka strategy releases music on his archigramophone imprint and curates monthly community library nights at the dunes club in portland, oregon. strategy has released dance singles (with seattles orac label), remixes and a debut album, strut, on the portland-based outward music label in summer 2003. strategy wires together dickows programming and performing experience via a hodgepodge of table topelectronics, computers and realtime musicianship. combining a granular ambient aesthetic with an abstract,percolating rhythmic sensibility, strategy unites small parts into complete melodies motivated by complex pulsations. the portland mercury described dickow as "portlands laptop prankster/meister of disquo."to date youve heard strategy dabble in everything from headphone-oriented ambient music to house and dub; this is the work that brings it all together.