Chemicals EP by DMVU

WAKAAN will follow up DMVU’s single “Chemicals” with his seven-track EP of the same title on September 4th. Just a couple of months on from the success of this banger, the Colorado based producer brings further creativity to the table with this collection.

He explains: “When I was writing these tracks, I had been in a creative rut for a while. I had just got off a tour with Dirt Monkey and kind of felt like all my energy had been depleted. I knew I wanted to write something heavy and glitchy but I just wasn't really able to get into the swing of things.

One day I just kind of started sampling obscure things, like fax machines, telephones, dolphins (lol) and doing a lot of crazy processing on all of it. All of a sudden I had an amalgamation of sounds that just seemed kind of over-the-top. After some fine-tuning I started putting them over these really slow drums I had been making and low and behold, the "Chemicals" EP came into fruition. I got to test them all on the tour I did after that and people were very receptive. I'm glad some distorted 808s and seal noises get the kids as hype as I get."

Moving through the distorted, guttural selections on ‘Break It,’ you are met by the booming thumps ‘Digitoxin,’ which neatly leads into the EP’s memorable title track. Expect robotic jerks and stammers with ‘Computer Beats,’ whilst ‘Fire and Earth’ goes in slower with dub undertones. ‘Blastin’ features further unique sampling and tempo switches, before ‘Up in Discussion’ cements DMVU’s bold sonic manipulation with slick vocals and punchy percussion.

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