A couple of weeks ago, my amazing friend and musical co-traveller Svmus Bass hit me up on Facebook about some stuff that kept him busy and one of the things was his deep compassion and thoughtful worry for the young Hungarian producer Gekkei. Gekkei recently talked to Svmus about the breakup with his girlfriend and how that affected him emotionally. But now, Svmus had seen a track, just uploaded to Gekkei’s Soundcloud, so dark and gruesome that it bordered on the alarming and he wanted me to give my opinion. It blew my mind. That track, a downtempo horror-bass experiment called ‘baby’, was taken off a couple of days later, but it has been the basis for something even more exciting. That thing is this EP, which also marks the beginning of a new collaborative project together with the Santa Rosa based dj-producer, blogger and radio host DJ Broken Record: Dead Stare! As Broken Record tells on his blog, “…it didn’t take long for us to come across the word “expression,” become mutually stoked, and realize that, though being 10 years apart in age and 9,000 miles in distance, we were on the exact same wavelength when it came to music. This 17 year old from a country I’ve never been to and that I know nothing […]
