Paradot - "Rat Park"

Another stellar release from our friends over at Cudighi Records. Paradot are a Joshua Tree based duo who create some of the most un-Joshua Tree sounding music ever. A cascading series of hardware freakouts, sample-and-destroy anti-tech beats that is one-part 80’s Hip-Hop innovators and one-part Autechre chilly experimental sensibilities. From the press release, “Since aligning in 2017, Emilía Turner and Jodoli have constructed a distinctively genre-bending agrimation of electronic experimentation, an audio-visual avenue that brings to mind 80’s post-industrial innovators Severed Heads, the revolutionary Warp/Rephlex landscapes of the 90’s, and the DIY glitch obsessions of Black Dice and Pan Sonic. Their self-described “maximalist” reconfiguration of found sounds, samples, and other electronic detritus yields a richly enveloping and surreal sound that they relate in more practical terms as a “cross-section of techno, noise, ambient, and pop.“ This synergistic collaboration of hardware enthusiasts and their variety of samplers, modular synths, drum machines, have generated two full-length albums (2018’s Conductor and 2019’s Vain Zanni Cave) and the upcoming long-player Albumen, all self-recorded/produced in home studio environments. Calibrating a tighter sonic architecture these past few years in both studio and live performance, Paradot advance a powerful sensory shock, one they see as “a gradual ebb and flow between dreamy ambience and high-impact noise.””