Lithuanian electronic and techno experimentalist and all round sonic adventurer Gediminas Jakubka has released his debut EP Diabel under his Patricia Kokett guise to follow up his compilation cassette Artefakt released in February. Diabel contains three original ritualistic and dual paced creations which include the incredible ‘Mmuo’, the Igbo word for ghost or spirit along with that track’s thrilling rework ‘Mmuo Trance’.
The original is built from the ground up by wiry aquatic like sound that ambles alongside a fat thump timed to a resting heartbeat. Initially accompanied by a thinner beat eight times its speed before becoming the tracks signature, a repetitive synth arpeggio slightly twanged upward, the two timings combining to create this crazy shimmy like dance rhythm. The blend of motorik inspired 70s synth with atmospherics and natural sounds are what gives the track its strange intangible sound. Things get especially memorable when a disarmingly hypnotic reed instrument sound and an indecipherable vocal together constitute almost a pop tinged chorus of sorts. Both sections are surrounded by an array of organic samples and synthetic effects that blip and glitch in and out of proceedings mirroring the sounds of a warped trip through a forest.
The title track and ‘Serpiente’ rest on a similar playbook but the thrill is in how diversely executed they are sonically. The shorter rework, ‘Mmou Trance’ industrialises and electrifies the original ‘Mmuo’ making for a mesmerising finish to an EP that’s an intensely hypnotic electronic experience. Patricia Kokett’s Diabel is out on the excellent Dutch label Knekelhuis. Get it here and listen below to both ‘Mmuo’ in its original form and its acidified rework ‘Mmuo Trance’.
Mmuo
Patricia Kokett (LIT)
From the EP, ‘Diabel’, Knekelhuis.
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Mmuo Trance
Patricia Kokett (LIT)
From the EP, ‘Diabel’, Knekelhuis.
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