If you never take a chance, you'll never know what you could have accomplished... or how weird things could get. The WOKE EP started out as a distant collaboration between synthesizer pioneers Grosso Gadgetto and Pink Room, a set of improvisations that eventually acquired the cohesive character of an album. The first point of distinction for this EP is that it does not sound anything like its origins would suggest- the structure of these tracks feels concrete and determined. They have a clear and undeniable essence that compels their trajectory- they are by no means meandering or wayward in their expressiveness. They do, however, possess a certain strain of trepidation, a careful tread fed by a steady mainline of adrenaline, a prickly wire wrapping through which you can decipher the communication between the authors as they midwife each measure in real-time. These communications are the reality of the piece, indicative of its creation, and which is both subsumed and perceptible within the filament of its very being. A cold superstructure of cracked glassy synths, propped up by materializing schematic in the form of industrial percussion beset by the paranoid hum of a swarm of metallic wasps. Speaking of reality, where the EP smashes through the mirror of its own maligned ruminations and spectacle and allows the dirty avalanche of the world to pack the walls of your headspace is the intersection of these synth-bound backtracks and Oddateee's discordant flow and rhymes. Oddateee sounds like he's channeling overlapping frequencies of Yoni Wolf and Doseone after sleeping on the street for three weeks without a shower, a hot meal, or a kind word from a stranger. His flow is obtuse, grimy and centered on the indignities of living a life in a world that couldn't care whether he makes it to tomorrow. WOKE is an industrial hip-hop nightmare that haunts the waking world with its own ghastly projections and shades- a radioactive shadow that consumes the horizon like a mushroom cloud.
