Mochipet and Friends
Check out the Star Wars-sampling psychedelic glitch music video for “Broken Synthesizers” from Godxiliary! Click the image to watch on YouTube:
The limited edition Mythology of the Metropolis 12″ is out soon! Pre-order now to reserve your copy:
http://www.deceptikon.net
I’m happy to announce that the Mythology of the Metropolis 12″ is now at the pressing plant! The release is strictly limited to 300 copies, is on semi-transparent “coke bottle blue” colored vinyl, and comes with an exclusive 11″ x 17″ poster insert.
The deadline to pledge and help Deceptikon press Mythology of the Metropolis onto 12″ vinyl is quickly approaching!
We are 10 days from the deadline, and have amazingly funded $1006 of the total goal of $1500! We still need a few hundred dollars in order to make this happen. If you’ve thought about it, now is the time to pledge your support! Help us out! Tell your friends!
There are tons of cool rewards, including vinyl test pressings, free CDs, and even private concerts and remix commissions.
Check it out for full details..
We can do it!
Thanks to Textura for the glowing review!
Having been in operation for a while now, Zack Wright’s Deceptikon project could be in danger of being passed over by listeners in favour of ‘fresher’ producers. Which would be a crying shame because the music Wright’s serving up on Mythology of the Metropolis is as fresh as anything coming out of the UK (or anywhere else, for that matter) at the moment. If you need proof, check out the wobbly head-nod of tunes like “Crumar Crush” and “Time Dilation” where you’ll find no shortage of crisp beatsmithing and bleepy melodies bumping through Wright’s future-funk.
If anything, the third Deceptikon collection benefits greatly from the experience Wright has gained as a music producer in the years since the first Deceptikon twelve-inch appeared on Merck Records in 2003. Apparently Mythology of the Metropolis was conceived as a love letter to Tokyo as it was primarily created when Wright was living there (he currently calls San Francisco home). And while that’s clearly evidenced by track titles like “Tokyo Burning” and “Kinyoubi,” the album’s thumping cuts draw more upon the kind of hip-hop, funk, and crunk one associates with US and UK music-making. Wright’s hip-hop leanings come markedly to the fore during the trippy crunk-funk stomp of “Broken Synthesizers.” There’s sometimes a sc-fi vibe to the material, as heard in the electronic voice that croaks through “The Fall of Humanity,” a collaboration with He Can Jog. Wright’s arranging skills are nicely shown by the restraint he brings to a cut like “The Humans Return” where a simple drum pattern and synth bass line provide slinky support for synthetic space melodies (vocodered too) colliding overtop. Guests like Vincent Parker, Artemis Jackson, He Can Jog, and Oly may appear on the album, but Mythology of the Metropolis ultimately sounds like nothing else than a Deceptikon project.
Deceptikon has teamed up with Kickstarter.com to press a limited edition Mythology of the Metropolis 12″.
Basically, Kickstarter is a project funding platform. a goal amount ($1500) has been set to cover the costs of pressing 300 12″ records, and we have until July 1st to reach the goal. If you would like to buy a copy of the 12″, simply visit the Kickstarter project page and pledge the lowest amount. If you want to help even more and get some even cooler rewards, there are many options available.
We can do it!
Deceptikon is playing live at the legendary Change The Beat weekly in San Francisco, this Tuesday, April 6th..!
Dave Segal wrote a very favorable feature about Mythology of the Metropolis in this week’s issue of The Stranger!
Former Seattle denizen Deceptikon (aka Zack Wright) now dwells in San Francisco, but he remains a well-liked figure in the Emerald City and often returns here to ply his finely crafted cuts. His new album, Mythology of the Metropolis (Daly City Records; www.dalycityrecords.com), is now available on the major digital retail sites and is selling like proverbial hot bytes.
Mythology of the Metropolis consists of 14 examples of crisp, vibrant, post-Dilla instrumental hiphop, with flashes of pretty IDM melodies and late-’00s bass wobble. Deceptikon keeps the head-nod factor high while wrenching out some interesting, exotic melodies. “Echolocation” genuflects to the Far East with its fluttering, quasi-Zen garden motif (à la Philip Glass in his Mishima soundtrack) set amid splatting, stalwart funk beats. “Indo Loops” also is riveting, with its distorted (presumably Indian) chant warbling over a sinuous synth drone, staunch Madlib-elous clapper beats, and furious, pitch-shifted tabla slaps. “The Fall of Humanity” majestically glides like 1977 Kraftwerk, while “Dissolving in Acid” lives up to its title, running crinkly Roland 303 squiggles through a dense thicket of kick-drum thump and toxic squalls of low-end pressure. “Broken Synthesizers” growls and bristles like a peak-time Cannibal Ox/El-P joint.
Along with similar works like Flying Lotus’s Los Angeles, Mux Mool’s Skulltaste, Nosaj Thing’s Drift, and Free the Robots’ Ctrl Alt Delete, Mythology of the Metropolis is mapping out a fertile field where IDM and dubstep’s textural playfulness and extremity tampers with hiphop’s rhythmic parameters, but without causing fissures in its essential funkiness. Exciting times, indeed.
Thanks Dave!
Jakub at ISO50 has posted “Kinyoubi”.. Here’s what he had to say:
If you need more Mux Mool like ma then a heavy dose of Deceptikon will do, Mux turned me onto Mythology Of The Metropolis which is the new LP from Deceptikon, what a great month in music? an LP from Daedelus, Deceptikon, Mux Mool and Bonobo, this might break a headnodders neck.
Deceptikon’s “From The Metropolis” mix is now up on Percussionlab! A great mix of tracks from the new album and inspirations.
I’m pretty sure Deceptikon has soaked in plenty of neon synths and heavy bass since his relocation to the west coast. “Mythology of the Metropolis,” his upcoming third album on Daly City Records, is a hard hitting departure from his more chilled out hip hop instrumental work on Merck Records. Electro beats, growling lazer bass and sine wave melody workouts are the name of the game. I almost wish I had a car so I could bomb around this spring, blasting this mix with the windows down.
Tracklist
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John Carpenter – Street Thunder
Deceptikon – Kinyoubi
Deceptikon – Tokyo Burning
Jega – Bluette
Deceptikon – Echolocation
Boards Of Canada – Rue The Whirl
Missy Elliott – Pass That Dutch (Instrumental)
Deceptikon – The Humans Return
Deceptikon – Indo Loops
Zapp & Roger – More Bounce To The Ounce
Deceptikon – Broken Synthesizers
More greatness from Mochipet’s Daly City Records camp. This time around from Bomarr Blog favorite Deceptikon. You may remember a while back when I posted his awesome remix of Copy’s “Assassinator.” He has recently relocated from Japan to San Francisco and just released a brand new album called Mythology of the Metropolis. The record features contributions from Copy, Oly (Ipecac), He Can Jog, and Vincent Parker. It’s chock full of head-nodders so don’t sleep on this one.
Thanks to The Bomarr Blog for the kind words!
