Gesaffelstein

Water takes five of his ten planets, earth three, and fire and air one each. Water registers everything and decides nothing quickly; the elements that would force the thing or talk it through are down to a planet apiece. Gesaffelstein produces records, and the record describes a severe industrial techno sound.

The Sun, Mercury and Mars group across eighteen degrees of Cancer, three planets in the sign that keeps what it is given and protects it, and the Moon answers from Virgo. Cancer is the softest sign in the set and Virgo the most exacting. A producer known for a hard, mechanical sound has identity, speech and drive all stationed in the protective sign, which is not the chart anybody would guess from the records.

Every planet from Jupiter outwards was retrograde at his birth, five in all, so the entire slow half of the chart was facing the other way. The Moon sits square Uranus at a fifth of a degree, the tightest contact here, private feeling braced against the planet that refuses the expected arrangement. The Sun sits directly opposite Neptune at three fifths and makes an easy skill of its contact with the Moon at a quarter. In a producer, feeling held against the break is where a hard sound comes from.

Jupiter came the whole way round to its Aquarius starting point on 27 February 2021, at thirty five, in reverse as it was originally. Aquarius has no interest in how far down the road you got, only in how far off it you were, and two laps precede it. For a producer working in a form deliberately short of warmth, distance from the ordinary way of doing it is the measure the work already uses. Five planets in water, in a chart that sounds like none of it, is the reading worth keeping.