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- Summary: This is the second full-length solo release for the London-based Iranian electronic artist.
- Record Label: Ninja Tune
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Mar 30, 2016I AKA I is a shedding of the shackles, a great example of what can happen when someone jettisons rigid structure for boundless creativity. This, above all else, makes Ash Koosha one of 2016's most important players and solidifies I AKA I as one of the most unique records to come out in years.
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Mar 25, 2016I AKA I is eclectic and forceful, but always at the service of melody, atmosphere and, if you listen hard enough, emotion.
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UncutMar 25, 2016The disparate elements feel abstract and abrasive in places, yet the whole is sumptuously melodic and sonically rich. [May 2016, p.75]
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Apr 13, 2016Even at its darkest and strangest, Koosha's music rarely feels like it's trying to punish or alienate the listener. He seems excited to explore the possibilities of music-making technology, and the results are endlessly fascinating.
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Apr 14, 2016What’s left is something truly fresh, barely recognisable, a shuddering, bending feast of sound.
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Apr 6, 2016Kooshanejad works by breaking down samples into unrecognizable blips of sound, and then layering them up into thickets of melody and rhythm. There is the sense that any individual noise could be one locus on a larger waveform, any melodic line or rhythmic figure a patchwork of them.
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MojoMar 25, 2016Western and Middle Eastern influences collide in a glitchy and rhythmically experimental union. [May 2016, p.96]
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