The first edition of the Gop Tun Festival, celebrating 10 years of the Gop Tun label, brought underground names from across Brazil and Latin America to São Paulo for a night of baile funk, glitch, throwback, techno, funk and experimental dance music.
Patch Notes: Body Meat
Patch Notes: Body Meat
A hybrid performance with drums, vocals and electronics from the genre-bending US artist.
Body Meat is the solo project of Christopher Taylor, a US multi-instrumentalist and producer whose experimental pop music draws on a wide variety of influences, from the exploratory footwork of Jlin and African club sounds of the Nyege Nyege label, to Chicago drill duo Sicko Mobb and legendary R&B act Boyz II Men.
On this episode of Patch Notes, Taylor gives us an insight into the process that went into his latest EP Year of the Orc, which was written and recorded in his apartment in Philadelphia. The hybrid session sees Taylor combine live drums and vocals with beats from an Elektron Digitakt and FX from a Korg Monotron.
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Patch Notes: Fronte Violeta
Patch Notes: Fronte Violeta
A “free dive” rooftop session from the Brazilian experimental duo, filmed in São Paulo.
Fronte Violeta are Anelena Toku and Carla Boregas, a duo based in São Paulo who investigate the behaviour of sound in different environments via performance, audiovisual pieces, theatrical practices and collaborations with other artists. Their duo draw on the influence of the natural world, crafting ambient soundscapes and experimental beat-driven tracks.
In this episode of Patch Notes, Fronte Violeta perform a special improvised session with synths, samplers and effects amongst the metropolis of downtown São Paulo, filmed on a building where experimental music and performance venue Leviatã is located.