Devenir Maleza was one of those projects that just arrived in our overflowing inboxes one day out of the blue. We opened the link and discovered four finely crafted, beautifully produced and captivating tracks of transformative, percussive music. 

It rare to find music that marries so well recorded percussion, live instrumentation and vocals with deep electronic productions without one dominating on the other. With Devenir Maleza Prisma and Martin Broder, a duo based between Berlin and Buenos Aires, managed to find that sweet spot that we love so much here at Shika Shika: deep, electronic but natural, acoustic and introspective. Or as the duo describes it: “a crackling, soothing, hypnotic lullaby.” 

Devenir Maleza’s was inspired by the concept of “becoming” and of transformation in many aspects. Through their long-distance collaboration the duo’s starting point was to imagine music becoming la maleza or “the undergrowth”, as if it the synths, vocals and instruments were sinking into the humid earth or drawn from the whistling wind or emerging from a rustling forest. 

The duo is joined on the EP by the talented singer and pianist Maria Barone as well as techno-producer / percussionist Merlin Genschel.
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released July 25, 2019 

Producido por Prisma & Martin Boder 
Voces: Maria Barone 
Percusion: Merlin Grenschel 

Turbina de amor es originalmente de Rafael "flaco" Ferriaolo 

Mastering: Rob Small
Artwork: JUMU (instagram.com/jumumonster)<3
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02. Prisma & Martin Boder - Turbina de Amor

I enjoy downtempo with deep, driving and groovy sounds. I prefer hypnotizing and spacy vibes with sexy beats. 🖤
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Shika Shika is a global collective without owners for music without borders. 

We are inspired by nature, by tradition, by the past and by the future. Our direction is fresh, different, genre hopping organic-electronic-digital-folk.

Manuel, a.k.a. Itoh, is a dj and producer from Italy.

Self-taught on all fronts: he started to listen the most popular djs when he was only a child. He get very soon into punk, rock, crossover, metal, ska, reggae, and started to follow some local bands as sound engineer. The interest in electronic music develops in the years ahead in an increasing intensity, approaching more techno, house, trance, psy, hardtek, drum'n bass, minimal, and everything dance music could offer, with special attraction for sounds and rhythms of the underground music. At 19, he get his first dj console (2 pioneer cdj 200 and a 4 channel mixer Behringer), so he could improve his practice as mixing techniques and to start to spread his musical selection to pubs and discos in Biella. In 2010 he played in the most important club, the Koko Club: that was a brilliant opportunity to perform in gigs with guests like Linea 77, Davide Van De Sfroos, and Divina to mention some. In the next year, he made his choice for electronic music and focus his energies on it.
On January 2011 he started to perform with "The Goodfells", duo that diffuse sounds of drum'n bass, dubstep, breaks, glitch hop, and other genres almost unknown in the city. He play in many clubs (he's engaged for the winter season 2012/2013 at Spritz Club) and in parties, meeting lot of local artists with the same passion for bass music.
On summer 2013 he proceeded to play with Traktor and a pair of old turntables, combining the old school to the new technologies. During the same period, with three friends he launched Medicus, a great organization with the aim of organize parties where the sounds alternatives are highest than the usual commercial music in town.
 Hence Itoh, dj thirsty of underground music, that founded his muse in the drum 'n' bass, where he always gives his best. Even if still a rookie, the hours spent on his turntables are many, trying to improve and get new inspirations for his sets