In the same way that graffiti is written, painted, or drawn on a wall or other surface, Badun paints on an audible canvas that is quite flexible and confounding.
Subtle, subdued, and shuffling electronic music
“Dreamers In The System was a graffiti movie; the universe is full of dreams; here is a selection from a time around 1993-1999 in Silkeborg, Odense and København (Denmark) with some of the cities’ citizens expressing themselves through Graffiti with a complex energetic simplicity.”
It doesn’t take more than a few moments to see and hear that the talent of Badun—who expands his sonic craft of subtle, subdued, and shuffling electronic music—is able to pull together a lush soundtrack for these earlier times. The chilled soundscapes and distant shapes featured here are as tranquilized as can be. In the same way that graffiti is written, painted, or drawn on a wall or other surface, Badun paints on an audible canvas that is quite flexible and confounding. Each piece incorporates ambient hues and drifting drones, and it’s in those fleeting moments where miniscule melodies begin to take shape that this collection really begins to spark.
Within nine time capsules—and what feels like an improvised musical amalgam—jazz, electroacoustic, and exploratory electronica merge into seamless abstract paintings. Where pitter-patter beats dabble in calm atmospheric corridors, Badun has produced an absolute gem of an album; one that sparks in all the right places and doesn’t rely on any one particular genre to express its voice.
Dreams in the System is available on Leek. [Bandcamp]
