This Friday’s mix is from Niagara, in anticipation of their new album released on the 29th April - “a random selection of a specific colour of music we are into right now”!
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Turin-based experimental-pop pioneers David Tomat and Gabriele Ottino are Niagara! The band combine their trademark pop look with an experimental edge, combining alternative electronica, dark-tinted psychedelia and funk, with sweeping arrangements complimenting spluttering rhythms and booming electronics, akin to digital alt-pop peers Lapalux, Mount Kimbie and Nosaj Thing.
The Italian duo have always had a driving concept behind their albums. Where their 2014 offering ‘Don’t Take it Personally’ focused on the struggle between technology and nature, the up & coming release ‘Hyperocean’ has allowed the band to conceptualise something that has inspired them from the start of their musical careers: Water. “Water is also the element from which Niagara started as a project, and so we felt the need to go back there to our beginning, to what really inspired us emotionallyâ€, Tomat and Ottino explain. “Hyperocean is a pluri-dimensional planet almost completely covered in water. It changes continuously, reacting with whoever is visiting it by switching from one number of dimensions to another”. At every turn the record is sonically considered; not only in concept, water also plays a central role in the production of the album, featuring hydrophone-recorded samples that help shape their “imaginary world made of water”.
TRACKLIST
1)Arca - Alive
2)Deru - 1979
3)Ash Koosha - I Feel That
4)Oneothrix Point Never - Animals
5)Kara-lis Coverdale - Touch me & die
6)Aisha Devi - MazdÃ
7)Mesh - Thorium
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Published on Fri Apr 22 2016 12:59:44 GMT+0100 (British Summer Time) by Loose Lips
