Suburban Knight Hi8tus

• Suburban Knight – FAR FAR AWAY
• Suburban Knight – FRENCH SISAQUE
• Suburban Knight – FMFIHS
• Suburban Knight – 2 DIFFERENT WORLDS
• Suburban Knight – SPIRTUAL RIDE
• Suburban Knight – MACHETE
• Suburban Knight – THY WILL BE DONE
• Suburban Knight – STALKER TURNED ELECTRO

• 1. FAR FAR AWAY
• 2. FRENCH SISAQUE
• 3. FMFIHS
• 4. 2 DIFFERENT WORLDS
• 5. SPIRTUAL RIDE
• 6. MACHETE
• 7. THY WILL BE DONE
• 8. STALKER TURNED ELECTRO

One of the earliest protagonists in the epoch-defining, landscape-changing Motor City cultural movement, and a card-carrying Underground Resistance member, James Pennington’s fingerprints are all over Detroit’s nascent phases as he mentored the likes of Mike Banks, collaborated with Kevin Saunderson and appeared on formative Transmat dispatches in the late 80s and early 90s.

Preferring a behind the scenes role for many years, Pennington has operated in the shadows, only ever releasing music when he’s had something to say. There have been long periods of silence in his discography but in recent times he’s returned with a series of singles and outings on Mollison Folson & Derrick Lewis’s Detroit Techno Records.

Largely breakbeat-based, Pennington pays homage to the electro foundations in a wide range of forward-facing ways; the uncompromising icy opener ‘Far Far Away’, the hazy soul and dreamy waves of ‘Spiritual Ride’ and the gnarled, brittle brutalism of ‘Stalker Turned Electro’ (a nod to one of this most enduring bangers back in the day – ‘The Art Of Stalking’) map out the parameters of Knight’s navigations.