It’s astonishing how Kroubikou can find the time to combine such a random assortment of oddly engrossing sounds and samples into such short tracks.
Powerful and tight-knit electronics
Kroubikou crafts compacted IDM, broken breaks, hip-hop, and all kinds of samples in a sugary sci-fi jumble in just five tracks and about seventeen minutes. Perhaps simply propelling soundscapes and scrapes for us mere passengers, Kroubikou instantly brings to mind classic Gescom and Alder & Elius (Skam), whose tracks like “Kroubikou doesn’t mean anything” hit us square in the forehead with their disassembled beats and heavy bass thuds thrust through fractured melodies and disjointed rhythms.
The combination of French-leaning textural highlights and vocal samples are reminiscent of old-school Stoloff & Hopkinson (ref. Pause_2 from around 2003) and how brilliantly they paired energetic percussion and shape-shifting noises. “Meow” continues to feed the funk with its beat shuffling and blips’n bleeps as the low-flying bass of “Transferring memories between snails” and its smorgasbord of braindance, IDM, and jazzy extracts seem to converge. It’s astonishing how Kroubikou can find the time to combine such a random assortment of oddly engrossing sounds and samples into such short tracks; “Can’t make it without sleep” alone has enough going on to leave us scratching our heads for days. Powerful and tight-knit electronics.
PSSGR is available on Concrete Collage. [Bandcamp]
