Sofie Birch
Holotropica

Percussions' identity remains a mystery. There is speculation that its Hebden himself or that he's collaborating with someone..for now, we don't know. What we do know is that Bird Songs is a percussive, broken-beat techno jam with chirpy sound effects and deconstructed tribal rhythms that have Hebden's fingerprints all over them whilst Rabbit Songs is an unusual cross between buoyant dub techno and clattery sticks-and-stones percussion.

Inspired by an Ecuadorian upbringing, percussion is at the heart of how Nicola operates, with his style finding a natural home on the London label. Presenting 5 expansive efforts equally indebted to traditional drumming as they are to contemporary club sounds, ‘Subtropique’ remains sonically cohesive without feeling the need to settle to a definable style. The tracks are tied together by a lucid psychedelic thread, which despite challenging the expectations and fundamentals of electronic dance music, demand movement at a time where we yearn for it.