An alumni of the 2016 Red Bull Music Academy in Montréal, Ketan Bahirat AKA Oceantied boasts a genre-hopping production talent indebted to his own wide-ranging taste, which floats from post-rock and Indian classical music to footwork, New Age and beyond. His debut EP as Oceantied, Tribes, is the result of two years of work, and finds Bahirat pushing club tunes into unexpected rhythmic and instrumental directions.
Debuting here is “Streets,” a melange of detuned drums and metallic shakers snaking around a watery melody and imposing sub-bass. The track twice breaks into a spoken-word sample, highlighting Oceantied’s ear for incorporating found sounds of his native country into an undeniably forward-facing framework. Racing past 160 BPM, there’s a spiral of resonant rhythms and interlocking melodic detail, culminating in a a junglist break. “Streets,” and the Tribes EP it appears on, is yet another exciting example of Oceantied’s promising production chops.
Tribes is out December 2nd, 2016. Pre-order here: https://oceantiedmusic.bandcamp.com/releases
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