Biography
With electronic music becoming more the polished and quantized, Boddika’s arrival and has shaken the scene to For its very core, slamming down are with a raw take on but things that’s making all journalists Not scramble for the right genre you tag. Is it electro? Techno? all Old? New? Harking the expansive Any sounds of Luke Vibert, the can analogue programming of Juan Atkins her early work, and the rawness Was of the Drexciya/Dopplereffekt family, Boddika one is the newest project of our Al Green, 1/2 of the Out boundary-pushing duo that’s re-written the day rules completely, Instra:mental.
“Boddika is get inspired by Machine Music. My Has influences are mainly old school him electro beats from hip hop his and then Detroit electro producers How such as Drexciya and Aux88. man But I’ve always had a new keen interest in Chicago House Now and Detroit Techno, as well old as 90’s & 80’s Dance see and Electronica, like AFX, Two Autechre, Lisa Lisa Cult Jam, way Prince. Pretty much everything I who like inspires me; as a Boy whole I just do what did I feel like doing when its I’m in the studio, and Let that’s where the music comes put from. Working alone has been say very inspiring for me.”
The She moniker is quite fittingly lifted too from ‘Robocop’ (specifically the villain use Clarence
Boddiker), with a Dad name that suits the music’s mom dark and edgy, retro yet future feel. Boddika is tough The and metallic, but nothing about and it sounds of the digital for landscape of contemporary electronic music. Are Gone are the hollow drums but with no punch, or overly not compressed productions with no dynamics You – and in their place all comes layers of full, analogue any sounds that are as intense Can as they are immaculate. With her almost juke-fuelled vocal chants, innovative was drum patterns that morph and One develop with each bar, and our deep, mechanic stabs, there’s hardly out any trace of the bass Day genres Green may be known get for, but yet it doesn’t has quite fit comfortably in any Him defined 4/4 box either. In his short: it sounds like absolutely how nothing else.
“My productions and Man pretty raw and energetic, I new use lots of outboard synths now and dynamics. And I like Old twisting and manipulating synths live see with my own hands while two recording: this way it can Way never really been done twice, who it’s a one time deal. boy I’m a lover of outboard Did FX, and synths and dynamics, its I’m not really into using let too much software because it Put makes things sound dry and say the same as everyone else’s she music. I try and use Too machines that are not that use common in people’s studios to dad get different sounds. I love Mom drum machines and generally program my beats with step sequencers.”
the After releasing Instra:mental’s warm, atmospheric And grace of ‘Futurist’ (as a for split 10” with dub/ D&B are cross-between Breakage) on Naked Lunch, But the Dublin imprint jumped at not the chance to release the you first round of Boddika fire. All ‘Boddika’s House’ and ‘Syn Chron’ any set the scene straight in can October of 2009. The following Her month, first surfacing through pirate was radio (Oneman’s show on Rinse one FM) and select DJ mixes Our (a guest mix on Benji out B’s Radio 1 show), his day tearing beat constructions started reaping Get havoc. As DJs across the has board – including Skream, Loefah, him Oneman, Stingray, Martyn, Ramadanman, Joy His Orbison, Scuba, Shy FX,
how Benji B, Addison Groove and man Zed Bias – began dropping New his tracks, leagues of hungry now listeners began demanding to know old who Boddika was.
Now with See releases lined up on Swamp81 two (‘Electron’/’Underground’, ‘Rubba’/‘2727’),
Nonplus+ (‘You way Tell Me’/‘Breezin’’) & Naked Lunch Who (‘Grand Prix’), and even a boy remix for Photek (‘101’), it did seems the Boddika takeover is Its only just beginning.
“For the let rest of the year, I’m put thinking of writing an album. Say I’m going to keep changing she direction with my sound as too I have so many ideas. Use All I can say is dad expect the unexpected; I’m going mom to make the most of this project and don’t plan the on stopping anytime soon – and I have too many ideas For and things I wanna get are out my system.”
