Experimental electronic producer Beatdenker strays far from the norm. With his live sets, he plays and improvises every time and everywhere anew. A plethora of guitar riffs, chords and melodies are blown through a magical synthesiser, modified and looped, all underpinned by live finger-drum played samples on an MPC.
The result is wonky hip-hop beats, thick neurofunk basses, wobbling dubstep grooves combined with dreamy, technoid melodies. His unique live performances have seen him play at Fusion Festival, Jazztage Freiburg, SampleMusicFestival, Seanaps Festival and WIM Burgos.
When it comes to his recorded music, he stretches the boundary just as far. Inventive and intriguing, his music fuses elements of beats and rhythms with Future Dance, Jazz and New World influences culminating in a sound crafted from extraordinary imagination. Employing use of polyrhythms, equidistance rhythms and iso-rhythms with two and three brackets, iso-melodies, uncommon subdivisions, harmonic and metric superimpositions, he offers a sound from the meta IDM world.
Commenting about his music, Beatdenker offers, “For many years I did deep research about sound and especially rhythm. During my music studies and after, I tried to find out a lot about rhythmic concepts around the world, but the main focus always was music from South India, their unbelievable knowledge and abilities about complex rhythms and improvisational skills, then the crazy super complex rhythms in the New Complexity stream within the so called New Music, a quite intellectual dealing with rhythm, stuff you can hardly imagine and in the end the improvisational aspects of so called Jazz music and its open attitude how to handle determined material.”
Continuing, “So during practicing all these different approaches (the privilege of having access to the knowledge) I found my own way to express the complex rhythms in my head and how to play them as concrete as possible, but still be able to improvise with them.”
No better is this heard on his latest release, Too Tall To Dance, a spiralling trip through his sonic vision spanning 13 other-worldly compositions. Taking twists and turns at every step, the album lays down a vast exploration of experimental music with constantly evolving stuttered rhythms throughout.
Listen to Too Tall Too Dance below
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