For his wondrous Fact mix Bloomfeld non-stop goesafter various kinds and meanings of ecstasy, tracing the connections inbetween dissociative Euro-hedonism and modern Pan-African music.
As the ringleader of Berlin-based, multidisciplinary art cumulative Overthinker Mob, Bloomfeld is all too familiar with riding the line inbetween concept-orientated, heady approaches to music and tracks intended directly at the body, noise that rattles bones and live efficiency that you can feel in your internal organs. Conceived as an confidential area for incomplete music that can be comprehended in numerous methods as overthought and established with the intent to interrupt traditional designs for dispersing music and visual art, Overthinker Mob gestures towards a more holistic, community-focused method, the verysame method that Bloomfeld takes towards his own production and picking. His launching album, LARP OS, is a reflection on the manufacturer’s nascent years through the lens of live-action function playing videogames, a performative practice of presumed identity that Bloomfeld determines with in his daily interactions. “For my part I am blessed with the capability to distinguish and compartmentalise the characters I embrace to browse my situations, and I have a strong bond with all of them,” he discusses. Choosing a design that shows moving inbetween the characters of several avatars, as opposed to a single leadcharacter identity, Bloomfeld declines a particular sound, picking rather to enhance polyphony, illustration from a large breadth of sounds and designs and in so doing tracing the connections inbetween them.
It’s this daring sense of audio expedition that drives Bloomfeld’s wondrous Fact mix, which sees the artist chasing various types and meanings of euphoria throughout continents and years. “This mix assembles a coupleof current findings for my ‘Ethnofuturist Transmissions’ and ‘Non-Physical Rave’ playlists, as well as more aged ones,” he states. “I’m not stating I wasn’t simply messing about with a lot of bangers, however I attempted my finest at deconstructing some familiar sonic looks connotated with thrilled European hedonism to reveal aspects that overlap with both contemporary (Pan-) African and ancestral principles of euphoria.” Bounding inbetween gqom, amapiano, trap, dark ambient, breaks, bass and techno, Bloomfeld non-stop pursues the superposition of dissociative euro-hedonism by strongly physical rhythms established with the accurate function of assisting overjoyed motion. In this hybrid area, held inbetween ‘Ethnofuturist’ body music and ‘Non-Physical’ braindance head-scratchers, speculative stalwart Objekt and increasing Berlin manufacturer Notte Infinita tune in to the exactsame dark bliss and sexual stress as gqom royalty Newlandz Finest and DJ Lag and commercial amapiano duo Aryu Jassika and Bujin.
The alluring avoid of Gafacci’s renowned amapiano and azonto upgrade of Haddaway’s ‘What Is Love’ enhances the loose delight of modern UK cool cumulative Funkystepz, while DJ Lag and Sinjin Hawke’s cyber-gqom smasher ‘Raptor’ channels the exactsame maximalism as a vintage trap crucial from UZ. Whether it’s Bliss Signal’s scorched-earth ambient into Bambounou’s elaborate puzzle box breaks, Massacooraman’s cold important gunk autopsy of Prettybwoy’s’ ‘Shadow Riddim,’ paving the method for Lorenzo Senni’s breakable straight edge rave to seep into lysergic percussive reflection from Space Drum Meditation, or NKC’s cacophonous difficult drum noise loaning riotous energy to Gafacci and Chefbanku’s ‘KICKY’, it’s clear that Bloomfeld is continuously balancing various conceptions of the thrilled – whether narcotic, transcendent or just jus