Kloke – Influences

Sea Levels is the brand new EP from Andy Donnelly aka Kloke. A recent graduate of Red Bull Music Academy New York and British ex-pat now marooned in Melbourne, Donnelly distills the urban groove and bucolic mood of his heritage through the vibrancy of his new environs into a wholly unique soundscape.
Following a narrative of apocalyptic tides and the oceanic sublime, Sea Levels sinks into the ambient, house, and techno realms with flashes of two-step, hip hop and dub. It’s an idiosyncratic take on British electronic music viewed through the lens of relocation, aided by an arsenal of analog synthesizers, drum machines, and psychotropic effects.
Delicate in its peaceful moments yet conditioned to the inevitable tide, Sea Levels invokes harmony and disarray in equal measures.
We asked him to talk through his Influences on this here Note of Ransom… get your ears round these.
This track was recorded 40 years ago but sounds like it could’ve been made yesterday or 40 years in the future. It just ticks all the boxes: forward thinking, raw, melodic… I definitely find that whole mid 70s period of German experimental pop a constant source of inspiration.
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