I Need A Modem, by Khalab feat. Kasai Allstars

I Need A Modem

by Khalab feat. Kasai Allstars

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	1.	I Need A Modem feat. Kasai Allstars 03:49		buy track
	2.	I Need A Modem feat. Kasai Allstars (Nihiloxica Remix) 04:21		buy track

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After the last album 'Layers', the DJ and producer Khalab comes back to his natural habitat: the dance floor.

Khalab and Kasai Allstars already collaborated in 2021 when they asked the Italian producer to remix 'The Large Bird, the Woman and the Baby', a track included in their last album with a powerful video clip in support. The Kinshasa DRC-based collective consists of fifteen musicians from five ensembles, all originating from the Kasai region (a Congolese province of the size of France) and belonging to very different musical traditions - such as that of Luba and Lulua - which were thought to be incompatible till this 'supergroup' has arrived on the scene.

Khalab's tight and dark rhythms meet sweetened melodies and strings by Kasai Allstars blending with congotronics distortions in the original version.
The remix is entrusted to another amazing Crammed Discs project: Nihiloxica (represented here by Spooky-J & pq), a group of Ugandan percussionists and two UK producers who sound like Aphex Twin on a study trip in Kampala. Their rework is a rhythmic vortex typical of their style and promises to turn dance floors worldwide upside down.

If you are keen on Khalab's sound, Crammed catalogue, Nyege Nyege vibes, and those sound syntheses representing the now of music and society in which we live, you cannot miss this!

Speaking of contemporaneity, the release's artwork is developed by the young Milan-based artist Viola Masella applying advanced A.I. techniques to visual creativity.

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released October 4, 2024

Written by Khalab and Mopero Mupemba
Arranged and produced by Khalab
Mixed by DJ Knuf

Performed by Mopero Mupemba (guitar, vocals, percussion), Celestin Kabongo Tshisense (electric likembe, vocals) and Manda (likembe) for Kasai Allstars

Remixed by Nihiloxica (Spooky-J & pq)

Mastered by Massimiliano Nevi at BitBazar, Rome

Artwork by Viola Masella

Co-published by Space Is The Place and Les Editions de la Bascule

Thanks to Marc Hollander

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