Rapido Superstudio by caramel 3000

Hell Yeah takes a look through the weird and wonderful lens of Brussels-based Caramel 3000 for its next dance floor trip. He serves up four cuts that collide leftfield electronics, dark disco and ancient cosmic wonderment into captivating new forms.

Caramel 3000 operates at the fringes, where eerie textures, irregular arpeggios and silver-tongued samples all coalesce. His interest in visual culture, semiotics and fiction permeates his musical understanding while he also embraces accidental methods and primitive designs when cooking up his sonic brews.

Opener 'Ottagono Corse' is a lithe, slow-motion workout with gurgling leads and sludgy bass. It's an elastic rhythm that pops and hops as it fixes your gaze down a trippy rabbit hole.
'Super Rapido' is another brilliantly loose assemblage of lumpy drums and withering sci-fi synths. Synthetic bleeps and drips are offset by warm percussion and make for something alluringly exotic. The same slow and heavy, dubbed-out rhythm defines 'Wetlands Tempo,' this time with muffled voices, muttered spoken words and melancholic pads all layered up to perfection. It somehow sounds like an ancient ritualistic dance and futurist disco at the same time before 'Holy Studio' takes you deep into a steamy jungle amongst distant elephant trumpets, squeals and cosmic leads that signal the end of the world.

This is kaleidoscopic music for curious minds; freaky grooves for eccentric dance floors.


Supported by Sean Johnston (ALFOS), Idjut Boys, Toulouse Low Trax, Peter Kruder, Felix Dickinson, Justin Robertson, Chris Coco, Bill Brewster...

Brussels-based Caramel 3000 composes fluid assemblages, cherishing an accidental method that evades any rigorously committed approach.

Instagram