Electronic music is intimately linked with cities.
Urban hustle and bustle was its birthplace, with mighty machines and sprawling, complex systems finding their reflexions in synthetic sound.
Despite its „artificial” genesis, electronic music was never meant to ignore humans. It is a product of humans looking to make sense of their world through art. And most of it is actually founded on an idea of community, of a shared experience through sound.
In 2020 cities emptied, clubs emptied, but music has not gone away.
Join Kaziozord on his trip through locked-down Kraków. It will be accompanied by his album filled with chilled, deep-bass licks. Empty streets of this mighty historic city are disturbing at first, but then, experienced through a wild longboard trip, they become a playground, a canvas for a crazy night of physical freedom usually not possible at any time for a city-dweller.
But then dread creeps in.
Back at home, you wish you were somewhere else. In the club, at a show, with friends, listening to music and discussing it not via Zoom, but over a meal. You realise that losing that sense of time while chasing music and other people around town might actually be the stuff of life. But until the vaccine is rolled out, normal, regular existence will remain only a dream. As if dreams of a better world were no longer possible, and even in fantasy you are left with wishing for things not to get worse than they are.
How easy it would be to surrender and to fester in the depressive gloom of the closed world.
But a musician needs only to turn to their equipment and inspirations to find solace. To look inwards, rather than out of the window and find sounds and shapes ready to be picked and made into art. Art of sound, of beats that are mellow enough to relax you, dynamic enough to make you move, filled with light enough, to lift your spirits.
Fulfillment despite all odds awaits such a musician.
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