SAD goes UK – Kuoyah debut
Since February 2008 I’ve been working on a new musical project called ‘Kuoyàh‘, exploring dubstep/2step/garage sonorities. For those who know me this could sounds a strange news, but it came almost naturally. Some months ago I was a bit stuck with music productions, and i started composing some tracks without thinking much about what i was doing, only trying to express myself freely, forgetting my personal clichè (for a while..).
The result was unexpectedly interesting and i decided to try to send some demos over UK and Germany without focusing only on dubstep professionals.
In the end after some months I got in touch with Dj Oslek (owner of the upcoming, futuristic Frijsfo Beats label UK – Dub, Garage, 2step) who showed interest for my music and since then i decided to give a name – Kuoyàh as above – to this new side of my work.
The project went forward and now i am really glad to announce Kuoyàh debut on Frijsfo Beats. It will be a 3 tracks Ep called ‘Chase the Comedown‘. It will be the first of many digital only releases from the label and it explores – in a definetely S.A.D way – Dubstep/Electronica and hybrid styles.
The buzz around my work went totally out of my expectations and many artists from the dubstep scene supported my work with airtime in their radio shows (such as SUB.FM award winning dubstep radio).
So thanks to Bunzer0, Noyeahno&Warlock (of the great Rag&Bone label), Insectmind, Whistla and Forensics.
From the press release:
“As Kuoyàh, Marco shows us the fruits of his production work that has been influenced heavily by dubstep, garage, dub, and obviously his diverse musical background. This EP comprises some of Kuoyàh’s jittery, warped, cold dubstep beats, which quickly morph into hybrid style…
Fans of PointB, Pinch, Lewis Hunter, Ital Tek, Innasekt, Combat Recordings, Vex’d, Milanese should be interested to hear these tracks.”
The EP should come out in March/April and distributed on Boomkat / Bleep.
You can hear clips of the EP on Kuoyàh’s Myspace Profile:
or full tracks – low quality – on SoundCloud:
feel free to drop me a line if you enjoy the tunes. I would be curious of the opinion of my friends out there.
Keep an eye on Kuoyàh, because there are other forthcoming vinyl releases in the next months and an upcoming UK gig in Bristol at The Croft.
In March there will be the launch party of the 4th release from Frijsfo Beats and me and Deftoo – polish visual artist – will play a 1hour audiovisual set (first public performance).
more in the Line up:
PointB (live), Oslek (Frijsfo), Scrambled Ed (Life4land), Damo (Combat Recordings) + more TBC.
I end this post with a brief note about the other artists of Frijsfo Beats, which since its recent born started to spread out some really fresh, never-obvious, adventurous music. Also if you don’t like dubstep you should give a try to this musicians:
PointB (also Combat Recordings/Orson/Erratica)
EDMX (also Rephlex/Breakin’)
Innasekt (also Red Volume/Sprengstoff/Rottun)
Sully (also Creative Space/Rottun/2ndDrop)
more links:
Oslek (Frijsfo Beats): http://www.oslek.co.uk/
Deftoo: www.myspace.com/theghostsyoudrawonmyback
The Croft: http://www.the-croft.com/
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:01 am
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