100 vinyl copies of music recorded over a decade ago (“Revelatory,” says Buzz Bands of “Animals
Figure 427”) have been in storage until
finally going
on sale last week.
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GANGI (L-R): Mahadev, Eric Chramosta. Photo
credit: Jeanette Getrost.
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GANGI | “As Fake Estates” Short Film
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Watch GANGI’s “As Fake Estates” short
film at Treble
or at the link above.
“Pulsing, dub-inspired rock to
psychedelic pop and more abrasive industrial grooves... It’s a strange and
disorienting trip.” — Treble
“For the three-track, 12-minute video for GANGI’s ‘As Fake Estates’ EP, I shot using on an old children’s toy camera
called the Mattel
Vidster,” says Mahadev (fka Matt Gangi) of GANGI.
“I love the look of it. The giant pixels seem to match
our sound. We call the sound material ‘mangled,’ and I did the same with the
footage by zooming into the landscape of pixels... crushing tape... pushing
pixels on a camera that already makes them super compressed... working with
technology at its edge just before it turns into total feedback of revolutions
upon revolutions.
“The camera, which I bought for five bucks on
Craigslist, has since stopped working, which is even more of a drag as they
have a real following now and it is too expensive to buy another one!”
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GANGI
“As Fake Estates” EP
(Office of Analogue and Digital)
Out Now
Streaming Link:
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GANGI | “Animals Figure 427”
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Stream “Animals Figure 427” by GANGI at Buzz
Bands or at the links above.
“‘Animals
Figure 427’ is revelatory — imagine if 2008 visitors from a distant galaxy
got just close enough to Earth to pick up warped snippets of the song ‘Animals,’ says Buzz
Bands in its
premiere coverage of the track from the upcoming three-track, 12-minute GANGI EP “As Fake Estates,” the duo’s first official release in about a
decade.
Buzz Bands continues, “The song is an eye into their creative
process, which incorporates feeding the music through hand-built circuits and
using noise from revived reel-to-reel tape machines.”
“‘Animals
Figure 427’ is a re-recorded and then ‘mangled’ version of the song ‘Animals’ from our debut album A.
We sampled our own re-recordings to deconstruct it,” Mahadev (fka Matt Gangi)
of GANGI explains. “The only sample
that we didn’t record on instruments is from the band POWERSOLO, friends of ours from Denmark who found A
through Seb Doubinsky, an amazing
sci-fi writer.
“We thought ‘Animals
Figure 427’ was a fun title, as in ‘See figure 427’ in a book, i.e. ‘See
this map to tell you how to understand the previous iteration of animals here.
See figure 427.’ I thought I chose the number at random, but I was born on the
27th and 27 has always been my favorite number, but I don’t understand 427.
“(Bandmate) Eric
(Chramosta) and I played the
original ‘Animals’ live at many
shows. It’s a song where we would go really ‘out’ sometimes. I remember a show
where Eric was playing synth during ‘Animals’ and I went out into the
audience and started reading out interesting things that I found in the local
paper for quite a long time.”
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GANGI | About
“Two men’s trash can be the same men’s treasure.”
Previously praised as “dark and rich” (Los Angeles Times) for its “aural
collage that seems aimed at warping any expectations” (LA Weekly) or more esoterically, “a soundtrack to cognitive
dissonance” (Under the Radar), GANGI’s “electro-psych evolution has
been years in the making” according to SPIN,
writing in the summer of 2012 about the Los Angeles-based duo’s second album.
Now, “making” is made as GANGI (Matt Gangi and Eric Chramosta) lands in the future
with a three-song suite of sonic disturbance from the past. “As Fake Estates” arrives Aug 5 on the artist’s Office of Analogue and Digital label.
The material on “As
Fake Estates” was recorded around the same time as the 2012 GANGI album gesture is, and is
mostly comprised of what Matt Gangi describes
as “mangled” versions of songs that date back to the debut GANGI album A, released in 2007. “We sampled and
re-constructed our own re-recordings to make most of it,” he explains.
Chramosta terms the new release “a multiple-decade long lineage
of assembly, disassembly and reassembly” or the re-examination of “that which
had been left to collect digital dust. Two men’s trash can be the same men’s
treasure.”
The elements that call back GANGI’s psych-pop past are heavily spliced and fed through myriad
electronic components, channeling the anarchy of The Pop Group and melting warble of DJ Screw. Other influences include Black Dice and Salem.
A collaborative brotherhood that began when Gangi and Chramosta were only 12-years-old, “As Fake Estates” represents the first official release in this
decade for GANGI, a project that
will go forward with the name Fake
Estates from this point on.
Just as this long-overdue release is transitional, Matt Gangi himself is traveling a new
path with a new name. “I found Sanatana
Dharma and the traditional yoga since I last released music,” he explains. “My
main Guru gave me the name Mahadev.”
“After GANGI
as Fake Estates, GANGI will BE Fake Estates,” Mahadev says.
Just as Gangi
the man is now Mahadev, the band’s moniker
represents a permanent change for the pair after recording and touring
throughout the world for years as GANGI.
The decidedly more experimental sounds of “As
Fake Estates” are heavily colored by hand-built circuits and the noise of
revived reel-to-reel tape machines.
“I was building circuits when we were recording this
material and we passed sounds through all kinds of things,” Mahadev explains. “Eric grew up around Otari reel-to-reel tape decks. In middle
school, he recorded a mangled symphony to his dad’s Otari deck.”
“We were inspired by all the glitch music that was
happening in LA at the time that we recorded this material,” Mahadev continues. “GANGI performed at (weekly experimental
hip hop and electronic music club) Low
End Theory during those days. The experimental electronics that were
happening there influenced these sounds.”
“As Fake
Estates” by GANGI arrives on Aug. 5,
streaming on all digital services, and as a vinyl release with etched B-side.
These very limited vinyl copies are artifacts, having been pressed and stored
at the time that the original recordings were made a decade ago, only to be
released now.
Their trash, our treasure.
“As Fake
Estates” by GANGI is out now via the band’s Office of Analogue and Digital label. Members of GANGI are
available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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