GANGI spent $5 on Craigslist for a Mattel Vidster kids camera to make duo’s 12-minute, three-song “As Fake Estates” short film; RIYL: The Pop Group, Black Dice, Salem.

Conceived as “mangled” re-recorded versions of songs from duo’s 2007 debut, 100 vinyl copies of “As Fake Estates” — stored for over a decade — are now finally available for sale.

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GANGI (L-R): Mahadev, Eric Chramosta. Photo credit: Jeanette Getrost.

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GANGI | In The Press

“Dark and rich.” — Los Angeles Times

“Aural collage that seems aimed at warping any expectations.” — LA Weekly

“A soundtrack to cognitive dissonance.” — Under the Radar

“GANGI’s electro-psych evolution has been years in the making.” — SPIN

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GANGI | “As Fake Estates” Short Film

 Watch GANGI’s “As Fake Estates” short film at Treble or at the links below.

[WATCH]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFcNUWx_O50

[LISTEN]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/GANGI-AsFakeEstates

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“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!”

In its premiere coverage of “Animals Figure 427,” the first of the EP’s three tracks, Buzz Bands says, “‘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 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
“As Fake Estates” EP
(Office of Analogue and Digital)
Out Now

Streaming Link:

STREAM FULL EP

  

 
Track Listing:
 
01. Animals Figure 427 (YOUTUBE | SOUNDCLOUD)

02. Toshiba Maxwell (STREAM | SOUNDCLOUD)
03. Subject Positions Redux

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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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GANGI | Links
 
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact
 
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