Scotch Rolex

Veteran Japanese Producer Shigeru Ishihara Aka DJ Scotch Egg Has Been Assembling Serrated Genre-Busting Ear Bleeders For Almost Two Decades And Arrives To The Hakuna Kulala Stable With A Crucial New Project Scotch Rolex Named After The Popular Ugandan Street Food. On The 2021 Album "Tewari" The Berlin-Based Noisemaker Melts His Breakcore Gabber And Chiptune Background Into A Fresh Palette Of Influences With Help From Collaborators MC Yallah DUMA's Lord Spikeheart Swordman Kitala Chrisman And Don Zilla. Tewari Was Assembled After Ishihara Was Invited To Uganda For A Residency At The Nyege Nyege Villa In 2019. Exposed To Hakuna Kulala's Family Of Artists The Producer Began Experimenting Twisting Trap And Dancehall Rhythms With 8-Bit Immediacy And The Ragged Energy Of Grindcore. Somehow He Has Managed To Distill The Essence Of Nyege Nyege's Scene-Shaping Yearly Festival Where Global Dance And Experimental Forms Come Together Under A Banner Of East African Musical Experimentation And Physicality. Ishihara Is No Stranger To Collaboration In Recent Years He's Been Spotted Working With King Midas Sound's Kiki Hitomi In Dub-Pop Outfit WaqWaq Kingdom And Playing Bass With Electro-Shoegaze Pioneers Seefeel. But Scotch Rolex Is His Most Ambitious Project To Date Jumping Seamlessly From Slithering Doom Trap 'Omuzira' To Anxious Hyper-Fast Electro Death Metal 'SNIPER' To Breathless Ugandan Club 'Afro Samurai' And Beyond Without Stopping For Breath. Whether Crafting Rhythms For MC Yallah's Tongue-Twisting Rhymes Lord Spikeheart's Hoarse Guttural Screams Or Swordman Kitala's Familiar Sing-Along Chants Ishihara Feels Completely At Home With His Collaborators And Celebrates Their Presence. "Scotch Rolex & Co." Is A Love Letter To Hakuna Kulala From One Of Experimental Dance Music's True Originals It's A Joyful Rumination On The Fluidity And Versatility Of Electronic Music That Manages Eclecticism Without Ever Sacrificing Coherence. read less