#epkitan

My new animated clip for buddy Epkitan off his debut release "We Come From The Trees".

There are many music enthusiasts around the world that promote the idea that EDM will be the only future for music. Actually, it's hard to believe the opposite, since nowaday almost every newly produced song is composed with the resolution of each single frequence and players are becoming slack by relying always more on computer editing. That is why I find pretty interesting the work of Epkitan, side project of Brisbane-located producer and Dub Temple record owner Andrew Grimes, since it tries to defies cliches by joining in the same sound flow dub and hip hop layers with samples and rhythms from australian and indonesian traditional lore. The result of this connection between past and future somehow creates a genre of its own, a blend that is intended not solely for dancing, nor to be listened with attention. In the songs of first Epkitan's release, "We Come From The Trees", bass woobles are not just gut-punching gimmick and the soundscapes are not created with the aim to be just tapestry. Yet, in Epkitan's music there is something more, quasi-ancestral, that summons unknown but familiar suggestions that anyone can easily connect with.

Check out the début album ‘We Come from the Trees’ from Brisbane based artist Epkitan (Grimes from Science Project), out now on Dub Temple Records.

This album is distinct, original and special insofar as it has been pieced together using recordings from Buru island in the Maluku Province of Indonesia. The label describes it as “painting an aural picture of the east Indonesian landscape on the frontal lobe”, you can’t really argue with that. The release is an organically tribal re-imagining of Jungle, Roots, Hip Hop and Dubstep and delivers with each and every track.

I cannot recommend it enough to anyone that has their head in any of the aforementioned genres or anyone at all looking for something different that exudes quality.