A fantastic mix by KADAPAT – an experimental gamelan project consisting of Yogi and Barga, based on Bali in Indonesia, made for Borealis – a festival for experimental music in Bergen, Norway and community radio station Vers Libre.

Indonesian duo KADAPAT is characterised by their hybrid identities between the balinese traditions and legends, the technological urbanity of the millennial generation and their formal and Western art education. Kadapat explores the intersection of technology and gamelan, asking themselves how they can reimagine the centuries-old practice through synthesised sounds. They typically build their soundscapes around gamelan’s signature trait – a gradual build of layered metallophones, gongs and chimes that produce a disorienting, trance-like state – but these elements have been looped and chopped up for enhanced intensity. Eerie drone, warped synth lines and whiffs of dark techno further contribute to the ominous atmosphere, underlining the duo’s taste for subversive experimentation.

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