Dalton Blanco
Computer-generated sounds are everywhere. Electronic dance music (EDM)—and every other kind of track made by button-pushers and knob-twirlers—is as omnipresent as air. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it means that if you’re looking for the future of music, you might want to start by going back to basics.
Back in the mid-2000s producer Mocky was working in what he calls the “pre-D.M.” music scene in Berlin—playing with folks like Peaches and Feist and doing shows at zoos (like, actual zoos with monkeys and stuff). Almost a decade later, the artist also known as Dominic Salole has found that the way he wants to stay on the cutting edge is to ditch the electronic stuff and delve into a much more stripped-down, jazz-influenced sound.
“Right now, strangely, the most futuristic thing I can do is make music with my bare hands,” Salole says.
His latest batch of future-acoustic tracks is Living Time: The Moxtape Vol. II (premiering below). After that, Mocky plans to release the follow-up LP to his 2009 gem Saskamodie . The new album, titled Key Change, will hit stores this summer. Both records reflect the producer’s move away from electronic music and reinforce his notion that more natural compositions, over electronically-produced ones, are the future. “Key Change symbolizes what I’m going to do with this album because a key change is a lost art that can reveal hidden realms in a song, but is also fundamentally about human intention,” Salole says. “In 2015, we are getting to the point where ‘the machine’ has become the arbiter of emotion, and intention is at an all-time low.”
Check out the psychedelic, dreamy Living Time, complete with drumming courtesy of indie darling Feist on “Instrumental Life” and Venice-Beach-art-show vibes, below.
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