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![]() ![]() ![]() This idea-that nothingness can actually be full of meaning-surfaces again and again on the album, which he made in memory of the Spaceape, who died in October 2014, six months after the passing of DJ Rashad, another one of Goodman's close friends and collaborators. "It's called Zero Point Energy, which is the name of the first track-and what I'm trying to convey with this weird, sparkly sound." As we knelt in front of a Buddha statue, the Hyperdub label boss unwrapped some of the mind-bending concepts behind his new album, Nothing: "When I was reading about voids and vacuums, I kept coming across this idea that may seem empty but actually contain all this invisible excitation, agitation and energy," he said. Now get yourself a drink.- Max MertensĪt the beginning of this past fall, just as trees around us were beginning to wither, I took a morning stroll with Kode9 (AKA Steve Goodman) to a nearby Taoist temple, hidden on the top floor of a nondescript building in Chinatown. Colliding transatlantic genres from Latin American pop to UK grime with the ease of seasoned selectors, and a little help from an eclectic cast including bop ambassadors Sicko Mobb, R&B singer Kelela, and veteran rapper Shawnna, it's music that's deserving of the post- prefix without feeling pretentious. Over a slinky, metallic beat, young Chicago MC Tink brashly raps, "Don't you wanna party, put some liquor in your body, fuck this club, let's get drunk."įast-forward to February, when the globe-spanning outfit-Iranian producer and composer Fatima Al Qadiri, Chicago's Lit City Trax founder J-Cush, and Los Angeles production/DJ duo Nguzunguzu (Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda)-put out their self-titled debut, where their discussion of club politics blurred seamlessly into a celebration of banging but too-often overlooked sounds from all over the globe. ![]() It's not often that a group's very first song arrives as a fully realized mission statement, but that's just what Future Brown's "Wanna Party" accomplished when they released it in the summer of 2014. ![]()
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