DJ Travella is chargeable for probably the most exhilarating music of current years, injecting crackling cybernetic vitality into singeli in a semi-improvisational type incorporating manufacturing, DJing and stay efficiency.
If you wish to hear the longer term, hearken to DJ Travella. The 19-year-old producer born Hamadi Hassani is chargeable for probably the most exhilarating music of current years, injecting crackling cybernetic vitality into singeli, a style which has resulted in a few of the most vital developments in digital music within the final half decade. For these of you paying consideration, partially because of devoted on-line assist from patron saint of the experimental Arca and esteemed music meme lord La Meme Younger, ‘Loopy Beat Music Umeme 2’ has been one the defining tracks of 2022, a turbo-charged transmission of full throttle, red-lining, hyperactive rave polyphony. Between the discharge of Travella’s important album, Mr Mixondo, on Nyege Nyege Tapes again in April, his personal Instagram documentation of ecstatic road events in his hometown of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and his current run of European performances, which have seen him brandishing his trusty Bluetooth keyboard like Herbie Hancock shredding a keytar solo, it’s clear that that is Travella’s time and the perfect we are able to do is sustain.
His combine for Reality, or as Travella has tagged it, MR MIXONDO MX SICK FACT MIX, which foregoes a tracklist, as a substitute that includes improvised remixes of tracks from Mr Mixondo in addition to a number of unreleased productions, is an exciting glimpse of his artistic course of, an improvisational hybrid between manufacturing, DJing and stay efficiency. Recorded stay in Digital DJ, Travella hundreds an expansive deck of rigorously chosen samples which he’s then in a position to reduce quickly between, crafting continuously evolving compositions on the fly. Layering a relentless percussive cost and melodic instrumentals which reveal the producer’s preternatural ear for hovering emotion and steamy sensuality with a cacophony of pitched-up glissandos, chipmunk ad-libs, sword shings, glass smashes and Travella’s signature shock breakdowns, he creates a sparking suggestions loop, during which samples, pre-sets and motifs from dembow, lure, hardcore rave and R&B are continuously fed by singeli’s hybrid accelerator at blistering speeds.
Carried out stay, aided by his Bluetooth keyboard with which he triggers samples mapped to completely different keys, Travella is ready to step away from the decks in moments of stay improvisation the place each aspect of his course of flows by and out of him, appearing as producer, performer and composer all of sudden. Whereas the terminal velocity and sensory overload of his sound bears all of the hallmarks of a cybernetic music born of on-line areas, the inherent physicality of the producer’s skill to smash collectively software program and {hardware} in a completely singular approach marks DJ Travella as a visceral antidote to any type of fevered, doom scroll nihilism. His is a sound that outpaces and overwhelms the pace and spectacle of the huge array of influences he attracts from, wrenching you up and out into unhinged road events and onto frenetic dancefloors, begging you to maneuver as quick as you’re ready. That is probably the most important stuff round in the intervening time: if you wish to hear the longer term, hearken to DJ Travella.
You will discover DJ Travella on Instagram. Mr Mixondo is out now.
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