Kino Šiška is launching an expedition to Mount Kimbie, which includes a guided tour from Kai Campos and Dom Maker, post-dubstep pioneers that will lead you through the sonic serpentines of their albums Crooks & Lovers and Cold Spring Fault Less Youth. The British electro-warriors made the journey from an anonymous garage band to dubstep
Kino Šiška is launching an expedition to Mount Kimbie, which includes a guided tour from Kai Campos and Dom Maker, post-dubstep pioneers that will lead you through the sonic serpentines of their albums Crooks & Lovers and Cold Spring Fault Less Youth.
The British electro-warriors made the journey from an anonymous garage band to dubstep trendsetters in less than six months. Their first EP Maybes (2009) already reshuffled the existing dubstep rules with its gaseous vapour trails of guitar and fragmented vocal melodies, and their first album Crooks & Lovers (2010) coalesced the scene: guitars, coated percussion sounds and fractured vocals placed Mount Kimbie at the top of the electronic music Everest.
Despite numerous successful collaborations (including The xx, James Blake, later on also King Krule) and enthusiastic feedback, Campos and Maker consciously retreated to their musical laboratory and redefined themselves, their attitude to music, as well as each other. “It’s a question of being respectful to each other,” Dom Maker says of the art of collaboration. Their sophomore LP, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, shed new light on Mount Kimbie; Campos and Maker upgraded their production role and draped their sound in warmer colours, with earthy rhythms that established the vocals as the main protagonist of their musical journey. Mount Kimbie thus became something more than just a performance of two musicians, but rather a story of the process, development, boldness and confidence of two artists, which sums up nicely Campos’ thoughts about the singing on the new album: “It was a case of, ‘If you don’t do it now, then what’s the point?’ I thought, ‘If I don’t sing when I’m 27, then I’ll be 30 when I’m making the next record. I would’ve said no too many times.”
“Koper resident Jan Bajc Funa aka .čunfa, a member of the youngest generation of beatmakers, started making electronic music in 2012. In April last year, he released his first EP, Analog Mind, followed by 421.ep half a year later, then a special New Year’s collection, titled uTrip, on the first day of 2016. As the year went on, the singles Harsh and Goly Hrail proved that he hadn’t stopped his intense beat production. They were released a little over a week before his first full-length album, Obsolete, saw the light of the internet at the end of May, via Slovenian label Beton Records.” – Anuša Pisanec, Tolpa bumov, 2nd June 2016
