Lotekno
‘Lotek’ the food is a mix of vegetables and spices that come from a lot of different places, but mostly Indonesia. ‘Lotekno’ the music project is a mix of humans and sounds that come from a lot of different places, but mostly Indonesia. ‘Lotekno’ is where acapella heavy-metal armies filter through iterative analysis into jitter-glitch overload, ecstatic sun-worship trance-lords get jacked up into spinning-rims crunk, and working-class torchsong sirens dub out into hypnotic voodoo dancehall.
Anomie’s polychordal density strikes acute angles against microtonal celendro and gendreng scale structures, pulsed with her signature multi-instrumentalist polymath compositional flair…the only logical choice for atomising industrial electronica, 21st-C compositional theory and extended sunda-metal vocal technique.
Efek Samping’s granular de-interlacing of sundanese harmonic systems and obect-oriented generative algorithms creates new impossible aleatory futures; first time, every time…a forensic meta-analysis, sonofied at a frame-rate suited to humans…almost!
Ruffles dubs echoes of bamboo suling flute and single-string tarawangsa drone through sparse hyper-spatialised ambience and tectonic sub-bass, a seismograph beneath the Mt Sunda mega-volcano.
Lotekno is a spicy melange of cutting-edge electronics and ancient technique, metal and maths.. a bamboo-silicon cocktail with a sambal-808 kick – a vision of the soundtrack to the dive-bar scene of ‘mad max: bandung badlands.’