Sound artist Aniruddha Das muddles gristly soundsystem womps with industrial noise and cybernetic "non-European syncopations" on 'Broadcast Signal Intrusion', transforming club nostalgia into a fanged political statement. RIYL Wasteland, Speaker Music, I:Sound.
Recorded live on New York's Montez Press Radio, this 40-minute session's a head melter. Das was motivated by the idea that the raw elements of dance music can be re-purposed, so uses familiar sounds in inventive new ways, turning dub sirens and noisy jungle saturations into blistering call and response patterns that constantly mutate. It plays as a single interlocking piece, built from techniques Das has been refining for years, and is teeming with life. Unlike the music it's assembled from, there's a genuine sense of swing here, that Das explains comes from his interest in non-European rhythms - such as the African 5-stroke clavé pattern. And hearing these sounds in a new context is revelatory; we all know the aesthetics, but Das's noisy flux of damaged oscillator groans and pulsing thuds is out on its own.
Even the set's title is a clue - Das uses the idea of signal hijacking to remind us that we can disrupt mainstream media, and as dance music is gentrified further and further, it's refreshing to hear an artist taking a wrecking ball to the established standards and building something fresh from the debris.
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Sound artist Aniruddha Das muddles gristly soundsystem womps with industrial noise and cybernetic "non-European syncopations" on 'Broadcast Signal Intrusion', transforming club nostalgia into a fanged political statement. RIYL Wasteland, Speaker Music, I:Sound.
Recorded live on New York's Montez Press Radio, this 40-minute session's a head melter. Das was motivated by the idea that the raw elements of dance music can be re-purposed, so uses familiar sounds in inventive new ways, turning dub sirens and noisy jungle saturations into blistering call and response patterns that constantly mutate. It plays as a single interlocking piece, built from techniques Das has been refining for years, and is teeming with life. Unlike the music it's assembled from, there's a genuine sense of swing here, that Das explains comes from his interest in non-European rhythms - such as the African 5-stroke clavé pattern. And hearing these sounds in a new context is revelatory; we all know the aesthetics, but Das's noisy flux of damaged oscillator groans and pulsing thuds is out on its own.
Even the set's title is a clue - Das uses the idea of signal hijacking to remind us that we can disrupt mainstream media, and as dance music is gentrified further and further, it's refreshing to hear an artist taking a wrecking ball to the established standards and building something fresh from the debris.
Sound artist Aniruddha Das muddles gristly soundsystem womps with industrial noise and cybernetic "non-European syncopations" on 'Broadcast Signal Intrusion', transforming club nostalgia into a fanged political statement. RIYL Wasteland, Speaker Music, I:Sound.
Recorded live on New York's Montez Press Radio, this 40-minute session's a head melter. Das was motivated by the idea that the raw elements of dance music can be re-purposed, so uses familiar sounds in inventive new ways, turning dub sirens and noisy jungle saturations into blistering call and response patterns that constantly mutate. It plays as a single interlocking piece, built from techniques Das has been refining for years, and is teeming with life. Unlike the music it's assembled from, there's a genuine sense of swing here, that Das explains comes from his interest in non-European rhythms - such as the African 5-stroke clavé pattern. And hearing these sounds in a new context is revelatory; we all know the aesthetics, but Das's noisy flux of damaged oscillator groans and pulsing thuds is out on its own.
Even the set's title is a clue - Das uses the idea of signal hijacking to remind us that we can disrupt mainstream media, and as dance music is gentrified further and further, it's refreshing to hear an artist taking a wrecking ball to the established standards and building something fresh from the debris.
Sound artist Aniruddha Das muddles gristly soundsystem womps with industrial noise and cybernetic "non-European syncopations" on 'Broadcast Signal Intrusion', transforming club nostalgia into a fanged political statement. RIYL Wasteland, Speaker Music, I:Sound.
Recorded live on New York's Montez Press Radio, this 40-minute session's a head melter. Das was motivated by the idea that the raw elements of dance music can be re-purposed, so uses familiar sounds in inventive new ways, turning dub sirens and noisy jungle saturations into blistering call and response patterns that constantly mutate. It plays as a single interlocking piece, built from techniques Das has been refining for years, and is teeming with life. Unlike the music it's assembled from, there's a genuine sense of swing here, that Das explains comes from his interest in non-European rhythms - such as the African 5-stroke clavé pattern. And hearing these sounds in a new context is revelatory; we all know the aesthetics, but Das's noisy flux of damaged oscillator groans and pulsing thuds is out on its own.
Even the set's title is a clue - Das uses the idea of signal hijacking to remind us that we can disrupt mainstream media, and as dance music is gentrified further and further, it's refreshing to hear an artist taking a wrecking ball to the established standards and building something fresh from the debris.