Name: Era de Acuario - Episodio 12 - 150 000 años by Era de Acuario
Duration: 57 min 57 s
Description: Ricardo Pohlenz recuerda a la familia Kellogg mientras compra acciones de X antes Twitter.

Caracas producer DJ Babatr is considered the Godfather of Raptor House, a vibrant movement of club music that started in the Venezuelan capital in the late '90s. On his first-ever European tour, he dropped in on Unsound 2023 to play on the main stage on a club night, setting the room ablaze with his propulsive set. We hit the record button, and this Unsound podcast confirms it: DJ Babatr still sits atop the Raptor House throne!

Unsound Podcast 102: DJ Babatr

Solpara’s debut album, Melancholy Sabotage, marks his return to Other People. While it was recorded over Covid lockdowns, Jaar had been talking about wanting to back a Solpara full-length since he put out Swing. The album came to life while Solpara was living alone in a Brooklyn loft, collecting unemployment checks and viewing ample free time as the artist residency he’d dreamed of; he’d previously been forced to make music in odd windows between numerous jobs and the unmerciful pace of city life. Free from obligations, he would wake up early to take Arabic lessons, read Tracey Thorn’s autobiography, and skateboard the deserted streets, then come home and design sounds until he had a track that felt like it needed to be released. While this easy going lifestyle was peaceful in many ways, Solpara found more complex inspiration in the emotion that stemmed from participation in Black Lives Matter protests and the 2020 Beirut Port explosion which rocked all of his extended family members in Lebanon.

Melancholy Sabotage explores the theme of sabotaging melancholy. Echoing sounds from the post-punk, trip-hop, and ambient genres, it is about sabotaging the cycle of melancholy and looking at this process without ignoring the sources that put it into motion. It may be compared to a rattling breaking free from retention, reaching states of dreamy euphoria and transcendence while simultaneously acknowledging the sources of retention, viewed from above. “The melancholy is going and going. It’s both beautiful and painful and you can get engulfed by it, but you can sabotage it,” he muses on the album’s title.

Pre order here -https://otherpeople.bandcamp.com/album/melancholy-sabotage

Solpara - Measures

Ricardo Pohlenz recuerda a la familia Kellogg mientras compra acciones de X antes Twitter.

Era de Acuario - Episodio 12 - 150 000 años

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