Greg Fox (right) performs as GDFX. Photo courtesy of Impose Records.

Of the mixed bag that was the aughts, we were lucky to come out of it with a thriving avant-beat culture, made up of tech-electro re-pioneers and theory diggers — people pointing open fields of circuited boxes at each other, trying to make new from old and music from unexpected, often dependently random, means. Brooklyn’s GDFX (Greg Fox) is one of those scientists. In Liturgy, Fox is the craftsman a cacophonous downward spiral drum attack, kaleidoscoped into that band’s blackened sheets of screech and guitar. With GDFX, Fox’s aim feels playful, where he describes his work as “taking weird noisy sounds, tones, and samples and kind of flipping them on themselves, making them work rhythmically or melodically.”

On “Pipedream,” GDFX cuts up a tit-for-tat from a fighting tone, a drone that rings up recent memories from the U.K. dance-drone of Factory Floor. “You can hear it happening at the very beginning of the recording — those are the same two sounds, being played over each other, with one being set to a specific time signature and the other being fired off manually,” he explains. “When they interfere with each other, it makes this new sound, that of the two tones competing for the sonic foreground. And each time it happens it sounds a little different.”

GDFX’s debut album, One Thing, is out August 16 on Impose Records.