At the end of 2022, Israel-based electronic producer Lamedd, aka Leaor Adler, released his latest EP, Permit, which weaves together monomers of experimental industrial music and imaginative ambient music to form new wave polymers of sound. Talking about the EP, Lamedd says, “Permit boasts the ability to express my violent urges, weakness, softness, impulsiveness, and power in the same breath. I allowed my music to scream, wail, cry; to express without any filters. I improvised the tracks without fully knowing where I was going. But above all, I think, Permit describes my experience as a gay man in a somewhat violent and rough place.” Permit by Lamedd He continues, “I think for most of my life I felt that being a gay man and a drummer meant harboring an irreconcilable internal contrad...