I still remember the first time I heard Flylo. The off-kilter beats, the dusty, sampled sounds. It was the first time I’d heard electronic music that didn’t immediately sound representative of the computer it was made on, and it almost freaked me out. But since then things have gotten far more extreme.
Flylo paved the way for a whole new genre of dance music, and since then, we’ve seen its limits pushed by the likes of Shlohmo, Mount Kimbie, and others, but never before now have I heard something as extreme as I’m about to share. Enter: Dem Hunger.
For most, the challenge in making music comes in composing the music itself, but for Dem Hunger, I can only assume that comes naturally, because it seems as though the challenge for him comes from attempting to get let his sonic creations wander as close to the border between music and just plain noise as possible without ever losing the subtle notion of a groove. Sometimes there’s a full-on rhythm, and other times there’s little more than a click every odd moment, but the groove is always there in spirit, and that’s what makes it so impressive. I wonder if Flylo new what he was provoking when he got into it…
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Tags: Dem Hunger, flying lotus, mount kimbie, shlohmo
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