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Kiki Hitomi is a Japanese singer, songwriter and sonic alchemist as one third of the bass explorers King Midas Sound (Ninja Tune) with poet/singer Roger Robinson and producer Kevin Martin (aka The Bug), and was a founding member of the Japanese Dubstep noise punk duo Dokkebi Q. After leaving London for Leipzig, she’s spent the last three years working on a solo project alongside Jahtari label boss Disrupt, resulting in her debut solo album Karma No Kusari (Chain Of Karma), a mind-altering journey through time and space, stopping by Japanese Enka and J-Pop, vintage electronics, 8-bits psychedelic and mutated deep fried dig dub. The LP unfolds piece by piece, with Kiki’s otherworldly tone of voice providing a ghostly atmosphere that is at times unsetting but always achingly beautiful. Album artwork was made by Kiki Hitomi herself, making Karma No Kusari an indispensable joint for any true space cadet.
Islam Chipsy and his band E.E.K. are a three-way force of nature from Cairo, Egypt, described by those who have been caught in the eye of their storm as one of the most exciting live experiences on the planet. Electro chaabi keyboard pioneer Islam Chipsy’s joyous, freewheeling sonic blitz warps the standard oriental scale system into otherworldly shapes, flanked by Mohamed Karam and Mahmoud Refat raining down a percussive maelstrom behind dual drum kits. 100 Copies Music / Nashazphone released the electrifying live bootleg Live at the Cairo High Cinema Institute in 2014. This was followed by the group’s debut studio album in 2015, entitled Kahraba. Recorded in late 2014 in downtown Cairo, it contains four tracks perfectly representing Chipsy’s wild and inimitable artistic spectrum, ranging from the frenzied sound signature technique that brought him his fame (Trinity and Kahraba) to the band’s individual manoeuverings of typical Egyptian standards such as the Northeastern Nile delta Simsimiyya in El-Bawaba or Upper Egypt’s traditional Mouled Saidi in Mouled El-Ghoul.
SKIP and DIE consist of South African songwriter, vocalist and visual artist Catarina Aimée Dahms aka Cata.Pirata, producer Jori Collignon on keys and FX, Gino Bombrini on percussion & guitar and Daniel Rose on guitar and other string instruments.After setting stages on fire around the planet during their successful two-year Riots In The Jungle tour, the pan-tropical future bass band is back with an exhilarating new album, entitled Cosmic Serpents – luring their audiences into a landscape somewhere between paradise, the apocalypse and beyond.The new album was written and recorded in Brazil, Egypt, Argentina, Colombia, La Reunion island (Cata.Pirata’s creole pirate heritage), South Africa, Portugal and the Netherlands. It incorporates a rich variety of musical styles (from digital cumbia, creole maloya, brazilian rasterinha and electro chaabi – to dub, footwork and psychedelic rock) which have been powerfully merged into an intimately layered SKIP and DIE universe.With its re-imagining of global music, irresistible rhythms and beats, acoustic instruments, field recordings and spacey synths, SKIP&DIE’s music reveals a poetic sonic collage that toys with ideas of transient life, looming death, a shift in consciousness, and the notion that our collective DNA coils throughout eternity like a cosmic serpent.
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