Pidgin Synths, by sUb_modU

Pidgin Synths

by sUb_modU

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Ex-Friendly Romeo has created something really unique here. Kraftwerk, Tony Allen and Underground Resistance hosting a birthday party couldn't do it better :) Favorite track: Water No Get Enemy.

alberto balsalm Briiliant & creative musician..he knows how to create different soundscapes & definitely deserves attention and the opportunity to play live Favorite track: Pidgin Synths.

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1.	RAM Generation 04:56	buy track
2.	Expensive Shit 06:40	buy track
3.	Pidgin Synths 06:43	buy track
4.	Water No Get Enemy 04:45	buy track

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“Pidgin Synths” is the new EP from the Berlin-based electronic producer sUb_modU.

A jazz musician with a specialty for tenor sax, sUb_modU is a polyrhythmic project that reinterprets ensemble music of the ancient tribes. Attentive to the dualities in sound, sUb_modU’s work is electronic yet sonically organic, complex yet understandable – electronic music with a human feel.

“Pidgin Synths” entangles a homage to the afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, with two synth-heavy original compositions. Covers of Fela Kuti’s iconic songs “Expensive Shit” and “Water No Get Enemy” were ignited through the experimentation of sounds on a new analogue synth. Reinterpreting themes of Kuti’s brass section, this creative challenge of rebuilding sounds from scratch and without samples was the basis for this body of work.

“Pidgin Synths” and “RAM Generation” are original compositions by sUb_modU curated from the identical pallets of sounds, following the same harmonic and rhythmic principles. Highlighting the typical traits of a genre that belonged to Nigeria in the 70s, sUb_modU re-contextualises and re-interprets these sonic staples into an anthropological music experiment, 50 years later.

Mixed and mastered by Vitaliano Zurlo at Pavili Studio, Berlin.

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released April 30, 2020

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sUb_modU Italy

Italian producer and multi-instrumentalist who lives shuttling between Berlin and his hometown Aosta, in Italy.
sUb_modU released his debut EP "Circles" on BBE on 2014, followed by a self-released single in 2018. Since 2020 with the Tru Thoughts label he released the EP "Pidgin Synths" and his debut album "Descent To The Centre" released on September 17, 2021.

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