Before I grew to become identified for my opinions on the earth bass music, I liked to hearken to extra worldly influenced digital music from the likes Beats Antique, CloZee, Desert Dwellers, EOTO, Sugarpill, Pega5u5, and the like. Even now that my focus is totally on heavier types, I nonetheless take pleasure in these artists and their work. So it’s my pleasure to premiere the brand new single “Bhangra Saanj” from String Cheese Incident and Beats Antique.
The two teams have labored carefully collectively, ten showing on the identical festivals, for years — and followers have rightfully wished for a collaboration between the 2. Michael Kang SCI says, “For a number of years now, I might run into David and Tommy at some random pageant and the dialog would all the time find yourself with us expressing a need to get collectively to provide a monitor.”
Eventually, the 2 teams acquired within the studio to jam and got here out with this lovely piece artwork. The West African, Middle Eastern and Eastern European musical influences are clear as day, with the fragile string work and melodies.
“The percussion half is me enjoying the Punjabi Dhol drums together with Middle Eastern doumbek and different percussion textures whereas Tommy doubles the accents on snare drum,” says SCI’s Jason Hahn. “Then I took the monitor to the SCI guys again in our Colorado studio to zero in on their components. It’s a very totally different taste a music and the Beats guys have developed their very own signature type to play f .”
When you could have two producers within the studio, it’s exhausting to essentially get a transparent image who did what, when there are such a lot of fingers engaged on engineering, association, manufacturing, synthesis, and so forth. But when you could have a gaggle individuals jamming collectively in a studio on their very own devices, all that ambiguity fades away. And in that method, it feels that rather more genuine.
Sidecar Tommy Beats Antique says, “We had the distinctive alternative to collaborate with SCI – one the toughest working impartial touring bands in my lifetime! This monitor has turn into a mainstay in our dwell units and might’t wait to unleash it!”
At final, followers can hearken to “Bhangra Saanj” from String Cheese Incident and Beats Antique beneath.