Artist, author, manufacturer and DJ Holodec tunes into the heavenly sounds of a canine’s eye view of Los Angeles.
Holodec satisfied Kelman Duran outdoors the old Chinatown studio of NTS in Los Angeles. “He had the program priorto myown,” he describes. “We were both out in the street smokingcigarettes, simply slicing it up and it all grew from that, here we are now.” Where we are now is still Los Angeles, yet seen through through numerous various lenses at once, superimposing the modern experiences of diasporic neighborhoods with reflections on the sociopolitical conditions of America in the ’90s and ’00s, as well as more individual reflections on universal styles of household, love and loss. Such is the setting for All Dogs Come From Wolves, an album encompassing Holodec’s irresistibly narcotic sonic palette, low-lit sounds for blissed-out ravers, as well as a declaration, a pointer that you requirement to comprehend where you’re from priorto you can understand where you’re going. Released on Scorpio Red, the label run by multidisciplinary artist Ans M and Duran and house to necessary jobs from ONY, LC & Charles Verni and Duran himself, All Dogs Come From Wolves is explained by Holodec as “an album about one and their environment, their ideas, sensations, sounds, textures, smells, discussions. The things one hears in the range, what one sees in the range. An album for the city – any city, your city, where you are from, where you are at. Stylistically speaking, the amount of all my affects, a merging.” He continues: “The album is built as scenes, sequenced out. Not totally linear however however linked, existingside-by-side. Think of it as a somebody’s image album. If you discovered a random picture album on the side of the street, looked at it from cover to cover, you can mostlikely get a great concept of that individual’s world. There’s a genuineness you can’t reproduce.”
‘Dog’ and ‘Just U,’ 2 highlights from the album, unfurl as twin photos of the exactsame area, the smeared, resonant secrets and artificial whispering of the previous track’s ambient interlude winding up into the uneasy, 2-action avoid, pining synth line and smoked-out, pitch moved vocals of the latter, the pulse of the city felt with a complete heart. Director Allek Bien‘s hyper-saturated visuals expose a canine’s eye view of LA at night, dust particle tracers liquifying into technicolor powder, ghostly graffiti blurred into a single, constant texture, the city’s train tunnels extended into infinity. Holodec’s words surfacearea fleetingly inthemiddleof the city lights, like expressions forashorttime glimpsed from a moving carsandtruck: “sound of city / sounds of cities in which I formed / sounds of cities in which I endure.” Picking out an instinctive poetry from the humming polyphony of their house, Holodec and Bien paint a picture in superimposition, the continuous condition of the streets they grew up on. As unsteady familypet camera videofootage is layered on top of itself, the artists illustrate a city both past and present, a gesture which is both a “statement” and a “toast,” a belief which leads back to the strength of the album’s title, an affirmation that looking back will program you the method forward. “Past lives endedupbeing this life, this life endsupbeing the next life,” states Holodec. “The title speaks to the spectrum of one’s development. Remember where you came from. Savour the present. Build the future.” Though sent from the intricacy of immigrant identity within the cursed history of modern America, Holodec’s message pulls focus on the kinds of optimism one can discover in uniformity, “a toast / all petdogs come from wolves / we makeitthrough together.”
‘Dog’ and ‘Just U’ are taken from All Dogs Come From Wolves, which is out now on Scorpio Red. You can fin