Radical standard bearer of Afrofuturist doomcore, Nkisi decrypts and recodes Congolese rhythms with a palette of Belgian industrial techno for “the jilted generation” - with her most hallucinatory and satisfying productions to date, highly recommended for Muslimgauze, Coil, Caustic Window fiends.
Since debuting in 2014, Melika Ngombe Kolongo has scythed a singular path with a battery of unique productions that warp the rictus grids of Euro hard techno with her ancestral Congolese rhythms and haunting synths. The results of her ethnographic research have appeared via the likes of Lee Gamble’s UIQ, Warp’s Arcola, and Purge.xxx labels, and she now returns with hoofing rhythmic heft, shapeshifting from glowering noise to hypnotic downbeat and cold rushing doomcore like no other.
As in her celebrated DJ sets, where she is known to play everything from obscure late ‘80s Belgian new beat and EBM, to Fifth Era’s doomcore and up-to-the-minute Tekno, Nkisi's productions here are prone to explore a broad bracket of tempos and atmospheric pressures. She secretes four stages of club ritualism, arriving with a wave of xenharmonic noise and escalating, heart-racing pulses on the title tune, and miring her syncopated rhythms at new beat pace in a swarming bush of choral ghosts with ‘NziNzaNzo’.
After finding her feet in the shifting sands of ‘Python & Prophecy’ the EP really takes off with stampeding drums and cold rush pads pronounced with stentorian purpose, while ‘A Path Appears’ is the stuff AFX’s early ‘90s wet dreams are made of, going on like ‘Elephant Song’ augmented to a fantasy doom rhumblah.
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Radical standard bearer of Afrofuturist doomcore, Nkisi decrypts and recodes Congolese rhythms with a palette of Belgian industrial techno for “the jilted generation” - with her most hallucinatory and satisfying productions to date, highly recommended for Muslimgauze, Coil, Caustic Window fiends.
Since debuting in 2014, Melika Ngombe Kolongo has scythed a singular path with a battery of unique productions that warp the rictus grids of Euro hard techno with her ancestral Congolese rhythms and haunting synths. The results of her ethnographic research have appeared via the likes of Lee Gamble’s UIQ, Warp’s Arcola, and Purge.xxx labels, and she now returns with hoofing rhythmic heft, shapeshifting from glowering noise to hypnotic downbeat and cold rushing doomcore like no other.
As in her celebrated DJ sets, where she is known to play everything from obscure late ‘80s Belgian new beat and EBM, to Fifth Era’s doomcore and up-to-the-minute Tekno, Nkisi's productions here are prone to explore a broad bracket of tempos and atmospheric pressures. She secretes four stages of club ritualism, arriving with a wave of xenharmonic noise and escalating, heart-racing pulses on the title tune, and miring her syncopated rhythms at new beat pace in a swarming bush of choral ghosts with ‘NziNzaNzo’.
After finding her feet in the shifting sands of ‘Python & Prophecy’ the EP really takes off with stampeding drums and cold rush pads pronounced with stentorian purpose, while ‘A Path Appears’ is the stuff AFX’s early ‘90s wet dreams are made of, going on like ‘Elephant Song’ augmented to a fantasy doom rhumblah.
Radical standard bearer of Afrofuturist doomcore, Nkisi decrypts and recodes Congolese rhythms with a palette of Belgian industrial techno for “the jilted generation” - with her most hallucinatory and satisfying productions to date, highly recommended for Muslimgauze, Coil, Caustic Window fiends.
Since debuting in 2014, Melika Ngombe Kolongo has scythed a singular path with a battery of unique productions that warp the rictus grids of Euro hard techno with her ancestral Congolese rhythms and haunting synths. The results of her ethnographic research have appeared via the likes of Lee Gamble’s UIQ, Warp’s Arcola, and Purge.xxx labels, and she now returns with hoofing rhythmic heft, shapeshifting from glowering noise to hypnotic downbeat and cold rushing doomcore like no other.
As in her celebrated DJ sets, where she is known to play everything from obscure late ‘80s Belgian new beat and EBM, to Fifth Era’s doomcore and up-to-the-minute Tekno, Nkisi's productions here are prone to explore a broad bracket of tempos and atmospheric pressures. She secretes four stages of club ritualism, arriving with a wave of xenharmonic noise and escalating, heart-racing pulses on the title tune, and miring her syncopated rhythms at new beat pace in a swarming bush of choral ghosts with ‘NziNzaNzo’.
After finding her feet in the shifting sands of ‘Python & Prophecy’ the EP really takes off with stampeding drums and cold rush pads pronounced with stentorian purpose, while ‘A Path Appears’ is the stuff AFX’s early ‘90s wet dreams are made of, going on like ‘Elephant Song’ augmented to a fantasy doom rhumblah.
Radical standard bearer of Afrofuturist doomcore, Nkisi decrypts and recodes Congolese rhythms with a palette of Belgian industrial techno for “the jilted generation” - with her most hallucinatory and satisfying productions to date, highly recommended for Muslimgauze, Coil, Caustic Window fiends.
Since debuting in 2014, Melika Ngombe Kolongo has scythed a singular path with a battery of unique productions that warp the rictus grids of Euro hard techno with her ancestral Congolese rhythms and haunting synths. The results of her ethnographic research have appeared via the likes of Lee Gamble’s UIQ, Warp’s Arcola, and Purge.xxx labels, and she now returns with hoofing rhythmic heft, shapeshifting from glowering noise to hypnotic downbeat and cold rushing doomcore like no other.
As in her celebrated DJ sets, where she is known to play everything from obscure late ‘80s Belgian new beat and EBM, to Fifth Era’s doomcore and up-to-the-minute Tekno, Nkisi's productions here are prone to explore a broad bracket of tempos and atmospheric pressures. She secretes four stages of club ritualism, arriving with a wave of xenharmonic noise and escalating, heart-racing pulses on the title tune, and miring her syncopated rhythms at new beat pace in a swarming bush of choral ghosts with ‘NziNzaNzo’.
After finding her feet in the shifting sands of ‘Python & Prophecy’ the EP really takes off with stampeding drums and cold rush pads pronounced with stentorian purpose, while ‘A Path Appears’ is the stuff AFX’s early ‘90s wet dreams are made of, going on like ‘Elephant Song’ augmented to a fantasy doom rhumblah.
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Radical standard bearer of Afrofuturist doomcore, Nkisi decrypts and recodes Congolese rhythms with a palette of Belgian industrial techno for “the jilted generation” - with her most hallucinatory and satisfying productions to date, highly recommended for Muslimgauze, Coil, Caustic Window fiends.
Since debuting in 2014, Melika Ngombe Kolongo has scythed a singular path with a battery of unique productions that warp the rictus grids of Euro hard techno with her ancestral Congolese rhythms and haunting synths. The results of her ethnographic research have appeared via the likes of Lee Gamble’s UIQ, Warp’s Arcola, and Purge.xxx labels, and she now returns with hoofing rhythmic heft, shapeshifting from glowering noise to hypnotic downbeat and cold rushing doomcore like no other.
As in her celebrated DJ sets, where she is known to play everything from obscure late ‘80s Belgian new beat and EBM, to Fifth Era’s doomcore and up-to-the-minute Tekno, Nkisi's productions here are prone to explore a broad bracket of tempos and atmospheric pressures. She secretes four stages of club ritualism, arriving with a wave of xenharmonic noise and escalating, heart-racing pulses on the title tune, and miring her syncopated rhythms at new beat pace in a swarming bush of choral ghosts with ‘NziNzaNzo’.
After finding her feet in the shifting sands of ‘Python & Prophecy’ the EP really takes off with stampeding drums and cold rush pads pronounced with stentorian purpose, while ‘A Path Appears’ is the stuff AFX’s early ‘90s wet dreams are made of, going on like ‘Elephant Song’ augmented to a fantasy doom rhumblah.