Takkak Takkak

Booking Agent : Federico Zanatta & Marco Portello

Takkak Takkak is a new duo project by the Berlin-based Japanese screwball producer Shigeru Ishihara (aka Dj Scotch Egg, waqwaq kingdom, scotch rolex) and the Vilnius-based Indonesian junk multi-instrumentalist J. Mo’ong Santoso Pribadi (one half of Raja Kirik). Each artist is known and loved for their solo, idiosyncratic productions. Together they fuse their joyous and challenging sound worlds through a strong mutual interest in each other’s artistic expression.

The name Takkak Takkak is a nod to onomatopoeias in drum cultures and vocal percussion found throughout Asian cultures. It echoes the artists’ love of polyrhythms and explosive trance-inducing dance musics, which they slather with unabashed doses of low-end beats, screaming vocals, and wild energy – with a good joke brewing underneath. Gleefully subverting instruments from DIY junk instruments to slapdash electronic hacks, they bend notions of the traditional and the contemporary by pulling from their knowledge of asian traditional and underground musics, multiplying these with inspirations the world over to create passport-free music that you feel like you might have heard before, but can’t tell where and when. Their namesake debut album, out 7 June 2024 on Nyege Nyege Tapes, is an impressive balancing act: Takkak Takkak navigate their cross-continental palette with not only knowledge and skill, but a refreshing level of humor. This makes their music as infectious as it is fearless – it’s experimental, sure, but Pribadi and Ishihara are having a blast, and they don’t care who knows.
Shigeru Ishihara began his musical trajectory in Tokyo under the name Shiez in 2000. He rose to breakcore fame after co-founding Brighton’s Wrong Music with Shitmat, and others. In addition to taking part in Drumeyes (with Eda from the Boredoms), Devilman (with Taigen Kawabe from Bo Ningen), WaqWaq Kingdom (with Kiki Hitomi), and playing bass in SeeFeel, he produces and performs with different MCs from all over the world, such as MC Yallah or Ethnique Punch, releases under the name of Scotch Rolex, and recently started a new collaboration with Shackleton. Shige also produces and performs Gameboy gabber as DJ Scotch Egg, and co-runs the label Small But Hard. In his own words, »[h]e is definitely not a DJ, he’s definitely not Scottish, and he’s probably not an Egg.« The Bangkok-born and Java-raised Mo’ong Santoso Pribadi is an experimental music composer and instrument builder. He started his studies in Western classical music but soon moved back to his roots to explore the wisdom of Javanese folklore, completing a Masters in music composition at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta. Mo’ong has since been hacking his knowledge of traditional music with crunchy electronics and unique DIY junk instruments made from found objects and trash. He is one half of Raja Kirik together with musician/composer Yennu Ariendra aka Y-DRA, exploring the musical, cultural, and political aspects of Indonesian trance dances.

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