Cleveland-based producer Tim Thornton records electronic music under the name Tiger Village. On Modern Drummer, his third release with Hausu Mountain, Thornton offers up a breakneck cycle of hyperactive beats built over shards of fragmented percussion and melodic bursts of day-glo synthesis. His tracks sketch out a hybridized production style with one foot in the non-recursive arrangements of IDM icons like Aphex Twin or Autechre and the other foot in the unhinged, far-off-the-grid drum styles of free jazz and improv. Tiger Village’s beats ripple through his dense mixes in sustained bursts whose individual bars bear no trace of legible looping structures or four-on-the-floor kick/snare configurations. Far from the territory of pure chaos, his compositions maintain a shifting sense of groove and unexpected danceability as semblances of in-the-pocket beat structures appear within his networks of morphing percussive texture. Modern Drummer’s synth work veers from instances of bright square-wave melody and major key harmony to flights of chromatic confusion that evoke the wonky, carnivalesque worlds of a lineage of producers stretching from The Residents to contemporary producers like Foodman and Giant Claw. The latter has appeared on Thornton’s own shape-shifting experimental label Suite 309, which has also released tapes by HausMo artists like Mukqs and Fire-Toolz. In step with his day job as the quality control engineer at vinyl record plant Gotta Groove, Tiger Village approa