Initial Programs - Are We Programmed

Release date: 03/22/24 The alias Initial Programs is a Mick Chillage project and was born in late 2016 after creating a track where all the sounds were created from scratch, basically from the default Initialized program setting of my Mopho X4 synth along with my MS20 mini etc. The track I created appeared to have a lot of my electronic music genre influences, Techno, Electro, touches of the IDM movement, Ambient, Acid, so I thought to myself, wouldn't it be an interesting project to create a release that brings together as many of my influences as possible by merging them into each track. In 2017 I had finished the first EP and this was released through First Cut on 12" vinyl in early 2018 and was very well received from many well known Techno & Electro DJ's and producers. This kept the momentum going to hopefully create an albums worth of material. So over the last few years I continued randomly producing works with this alias in mind with the hope of producing a full length a