Previously vinyl-only, Ethiopian Records’ uniquely percolated, technoid constructs for Arcola are now available digitally
Leading on from Endeguena Mulu’s trio of 12”s for Washington, D.C.’s 1432 R, his release for Warp’s exhumed sublabel spells out a singular definition of Afro-futurist dance music, synching morphed samples of traditional instrumentation and Ethiopian melodies with electronic rhythms in a mesmerising, distinctive regional style.
The epic ‘Megibiya (do you believe in things you don’t see)’ travels from hypnotic, filtered loops to a mind-bending drone buzz in just over 10 minutes, while ‘Ye Feqer Edaye / የፍቅር እዳዬ’ spins from tangled strings to a crazed dervish, and the intricate concatenations of ‘Makeda / ማክዳ’ work on, off, and around the groove in a loose and psychedelic style somehow coming off like Beatrice Dillon and James Blake jamming with Jamal Moss.
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Previously vinyl-only, Ethiopian Records’ uniquely percolated, technoid constructs for Arcola are now available digitally
Leading on from Endeguena Mulu’s trio of 12”s for Washington, D.C.’s 1432 R, his release for Warp’s exhumed sublabel spells out a singular definition of Afro-futurist dance music, synching morphed samples of traditional instrumentation and Ethiopian melodies with electronic rhythms in a mesmerising, distinctive regional style.
The epic ‘Megibiya (do you believe in things you don’t see)’ travels from hypnotic, filtered loops to a mind-bending drone buzz in just over 10 minutes, while ‘Ye Feqer Edaye / የፍቅር እዳዬ’ spins from tangled strings to a crazed dervish, and the intricate concatenations of ‘Makeda / ማክዳ’ work on, off, and around the groove in a loose and psychedelic style somehow coming off like Beatrice Dillon and James Blake jamming with Jamal Moss.
Previously vinyl-only, Ethiopian Records’ uniquely percolated, technoid constructs for Arcola are now available digitally
Leading on from Endeguena Mulu’s trio of 12”s for Washington, D.C.’s 1432 R, his release for Warp’s exhumed sublabel spells out a singular definition of Afro-futurist dance music, synching morphed samples of traditional instrumentation and Ethiopian melodies with electronic rhythms in a mesmerising, distinctive regional style.
The epic ‘Megibiya (do you believe in things you don’t see)’ travels from hypnotic, filtered loops to a mind-bending drone buzz in just over 10 minutes, while ‘Ye Feqer Edaye / የፍቅር እዳዬ’ spins from tangled strings to a crazed dervish, and the intricate concatenations of ‘Makeda / ማክዳ’ work on, off, and around the groove in a loose and psychedelic style somehow coming off like Beatrice Dillon and James Blake jamming with Jamal Moss.
Previously vinyl-only, Ethiopian Records’ uniquely percolated, technoid constructs for Arcola are now available digitally
Leading on from Endeguena Mulu’s trio of 12”s for Washington, D.C.’s 1432 R, his release for Warp’s exhumed sublabel spells out a singular definition of Afro-futurist dance music, synching morphed samples of traditional instrumentation and Ethiopian melodies with electronic rhythms in a mesmerising, distinctive regional style.
The epic ‘Megibiya (do you believe in things you don’t see)’ travels from hypnotic, filtered loops to a mind-bending drone buzz in just over 10 minutes, while ‘Ye Feqer Edaye / የፍቅር እዳዬ’ spins from tangled strings to a crazed dervish, and the intricate concatenations of ‘Makeda / ማክዳ’ work on, off, and around the groove in a loose and psychedelic style somehow coming off like Beatrice Dillon and James Blake jamming with Jamal Moss.