@hakunakulala

Prolific Japanese producer T5UMUT5UMU has built up a reputation in the last few years for his ability not just to recreate club styles but to flip them into almost unrecognizable dancefloor hybrids. "Sea of Trees" follows a blistering run of Bandcamp releases where T5UMUT5UMU has melted together gqom and techno, deconstructed grime and welded dubstep to traditional music from Japan and India. Here, he's operating completely off the grid, pulling raw materials from across the globe and hammering them into confounding shapes and patterns.

On its surface, 'Fireball' sounds like a liquid metal approximation of South African gqom, but move in closer and you can make out dubstep bass squelches, trap hats, and industrial techno jet propulsion filling in the gaps with rubberized mortar. 'Desert' is the EP's most lightheaded cut, a psychedelic percussive spiral that curves micro-tuned mbira clangs around bee sting bass, aerated noise blasts and sub-aqueous kicks. It's a hard track to place, but fits in somewhere between Donato Dozzy, Menzi and 33EMYBW, all shifting rhythms and precision-edited sound design.

'Sea of Trees' retains this momentum, pushing the tempo and interspersing woodblock vibrations with syncopated bass drums and goosebump-inducing synths, while closer 'Bottomless Valley' shifts back into a gqom framework, shuffling the expected pulse with a powerful dembow swing, half step subs and Indian-inspired rattles. "Asyl" is a varied but shockingly coherent statement from an enigmatic producer who refuses to confine himself to a single path, and at a time when "cross-genre" is the norm rather than the exception, it's refreshing to witness a producer who's unafraid to truly make stylistic left-turns, rather than simply mash together top-level aesthetics.

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Sea of Trees EP [HAKUNA KULALA]

Prolific Japanese producer T5UMUT5UMU has built up a reputation in the last few years for his ability not just to recreate club styles but to flip them into almost unrecognizable dancefloor hybrids. "Sea of Trees" follows a blistering run of Bandcamp releases where T5UMUT5UMU has melted together gqom and techno, deconstructed grime and welded dubstep to traditional music from Japan and India. Here, he's operating completely off the grid, pulling raw materials from across the globe and hammering them into confounding shapes and patterns.

On its surface, 'Fireball' sounds like a liquid metal approximation of South African gqom, but move in closer and you can make out dubstep bass squelches, trap hats, and industrial techno jet propulsion filling in the gaps with rubberized mortar. 'Desert' is the EP's most lightheaded cut, a psychedelic percussive spiral that curves micro-tuned mbira clangs around bee sting bass, aerated noise blasts and sub-aqueous kicks. It's a hard track to place, but fits in somewhere between Donato Dozzy, Menzi and 33EMYBW, all shifting rhythms and precision-edited sound design.

'Sea of Trees' retains this momentum, pushing the tempo and interspersing woodblock vibrations with syncopated bass drums and goosebump-inducing synths, while closer 'Bottomless Valley' shifts back into a gqom framework, shuffling the expected pulse with a powerful dembow swing, half step subs and Indian-inspired rattles. "Asyl" is a varied but shockingly coherent statement from an enigmatic producer who refuses to confine himself to a single path, and at a time when "cross-genre" is the norm rather than the exception, it's refreshing to witness a producer who's unafraid to truly make stylistic left-turns, rather than simply mash together top-level aesthetics.

Sea of Trees

Bottomless Valley

Desert

Fireball

Tokyo

contact: iamt5umut5umu@gmail.com

T5UMUT5UMU seeks for the sweet spot between tracks that are connected not by genre but vibe and style. Especially techno, breakbeat, and jungle, etc are his main shaft.

Acid Hazing [EP] @TREKKIE-TRAX
https://smarturl.it/t5umut5umu-ah

Laenz, T5UMUT5UMU - Unsleep [EP] @EASTERNMARGINS
https://soundcloud.com/easternmargins/sets/unsleep-laenz-t5umut5umu-em003

NTS
https://www.nts.live/shows/eastern-margins/episodes/eastern-margins-13th-november-2020

DUMMY MIX @DUMMYMAG
https://www.dummymag.com/mix/dummy-mix-580-t5umut5umu/

AVYSS
https://avyss-magazine.com/2020/03/04/13806/

higher frequency
https://higher-frequency.com/news/t5umut5umu-incantation-functionlab-hangzhou

TRENCH Radio: 10 Of The Best Mixes This Week
https://trenchtrenchtrench.com/features/trench-radio-10-of-the-best-mixes-this-week-1-1

FTL EP @Unizonelabel
https://unizone.bandcamp.com/album/ftl

Incantation EP @functionlab
https://t5umut5umu-fl.bandcamp.com/album/incantation

Magnetic Field EP @lovelessrecords
https://lovelessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/materia07-magnetic-field

Curiosity EP @knightwerk
https://knightwerk.bandcamp.com/album/curiosity-ep

Neutoxin EP [self-release]
https://t5umut5umu.bandcamp.com/album/neurotoxin

Wounds EP [self-release]
https://t5umut5umu.bandcamp.com/album/wounds

T5UMUT5UMU EDIT PACK [self-release]
https://t5umut5umu.bandcamp.com/album/t5umut5umu-edit-pack