Chicago-based producer/composer Mike Meegan makes music under the moniker RXM Reality. Over the course of five albums on Hausu Mountain since 2018, along with 2021’s Advent LP on Orange Milk, Meegan refined a strain of electronic production that unites facets of breakcore, techno, grime, noise, and countless other styles into detailed composites that attest to his omnivorous tastes and bottomless technical acumen as a producer. For every moment that hits like a radio pop song transmitted to earth from a satellite a few years ahead of us in time, RXM Reality’s music finds room for passages of mix-swallowing breakcore percussion samples and glitched drum programming – elements that empower the songwriting around them with their unabashed turbulence. As he cherrypicks and recombines signifiers from a deep history of experimental electronic vocabularies, one might worry that Meegan’s production runs the risk of collapsing under its own weight, yet it speaks to his experience as a producer that every juxtaposed element hits the mix with a stunning degree of clarity and separation. RXM Reality segues through far-flung genres and styles without ever losing a sense of cohesion, rooted in Meegan’s palpable presence at the center of each track. RXM Reality lets us trace his numerous distinct interests and compulsions as an electronic producer while opening the door for Meegan to express himself in new forms as a songwriter, an unlikely mutant pop star, a flesh-and-blood human being.