hipernatural, by Melati ESP

hipernatural

by Melati ESP

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Lauren G (Elle-Oran-ge) If Aphex Twin and Sade made an album in 1993... It would sound like this! Favorite track: KITA VS MEREKA.

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1.	TEPI MEMORI 02:19	buy track
2.	BAHASA BARU 04:10	buy track
3.	E.M.Z 04:30	buy track
4.	SPESIMEN SEMPURNA 04:09	buy track
5.	INTUISI 05:22	buy track
6.	KUPU KUPU ELEKTRONIK 05:10	buy track
7.	DI ATAS 04:09	buy track
8.	ITU CUKUPI 04:32	buy track
9.	ANDA KATAKAN 02:59	buy track
10.	KITA VS MEREKA 03:23	buy track
11.	WANITA 00:53	buy track
12.	ENERGI 03:46	buy track

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The music of Melati ESP aka Melati Malay is a euphoric vision of megacity rhythm and rainforest escape, club breaks and weightless pop, mapping new dreams from the sound of futures past: hipernatural.

Drawing on the music era of her teenage years growing up in Jakarta – Javanese radio Dangdut, gamelan cassettes, Moving Shadow-era liquid jungle, Japanese chill-out, etc. – as well as her current work in progressive percussion trio Asa Tone, Malay’s solo debut is boldly borderless, bridging worlds and wavelengths into a richly imagined hybrid synthetic utopia.

hipernatural is momentous linguistically, too, as Malay’s first foray into singing in Indonesian, the language of her youth. She characterizes her lyrical mode as “abstract, and a bit broken,” an intuitive collage of diaristic emotion and oblique poetry (“plant me in fleeting twilight / missing home, where is home? / I am another you”). Her voice serves as its own versatile instrument, alternately intimate and alien, sensual and sacred, shaded with the haze of hidden heavens.

Co-produced with long-time collaborator Kaazi (100% Silk, Asa Tone), the album’s 12 tracks are
cohesive but eclectic, threading through temple bass music, cyber siren techno, Stereolab drum n bass, new age downtempo, and dial-up rave reveries, flecked with tactile fragments of offworld dialogue, computer hum, bubbling water, and beyond.

Malay’s technique of sampling and processing her voice into an electronic palette which she then performs on generative instruments gives the songs a bewitching artificial intelligence elegance, exquisite but uncanny. Hers is a hybridity both organic and hypermodern, deeply personal yet globally sourced – YouTube rips, nature tapes, cheap sample packs, club bootlegs. hipernatural champions a dynamic new language at the axis of then and now, of east and west, planting fresh roots in a future still being born: “Cocoon world / it’s a rare earth / earthless / decolonize your mind / unlearn everything.”

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released April 28, 2023

Written and recorded by Melati ESP & Kaazi
Produced by Kaazi
Mixed by Tristan Arp (except track 3 mixed by Steve Nalepa)
Additional production on 5, 6, 7, 8 by Tristan Arp
Mastered by Christopher Botta at Fer Sound

Cover artwork by Kazuhiro Aihara
Back cover artwork & layout by Dossier De Songe

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Melati ESP is the recording alias of Indonesian-born, New York City-based artist Melati Malay.

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