Premiere: A-Tweed – KrautTxeepToon

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Lysergic half-step rhythms and chiptune melodic debris from the Rome-based producer.

The A-Tweed once played a KrautTxeepToon,
On a Sketchy Line beneath the moon,
With chiptune debris and half-step flow,
He wandered where the lysergic breezes blow.

He met Toulouse Low Trax by the arcade gate,
Where broken machines would improvise and prate,
They remixed “Junk Foot” once and then twice more,
While Kamoun arrived from a distant shore.

“Oh Sketchy! Oh Lines!” the A-Tweed cried,
“Let’s shuffle and stumble, let rhythms collide!
We’ll sprawl through krautrock’s hypnotic haze,
And mutate through Rome’s most unmoored days!”

So they breathed and they mutated, freaky and free,
In that glitchy nostalgia by the chiptune sea,
And the A-Tweed’s Toon, both Kraut and Txeep,
Sent the lysergic dancers off to sleep.

They danced till dawn on Sketchy Lines so neat,
With their half-step shuffle and their stumbling feet,
And everyone agreed (from here to the moon),
There’s nothing quite like a KrautTxeepToon!

The beautifully unhinged “Kraut Cheap Tune” is like stumbling into a broken arcade in some lysergic hinterland where the machines have learned to improvise. A-Tweed strips away the usual constraints here, letting the tracks breathe and mutate across odd terrains, somewhere between krautrock’s hypnotic sprawl and chiptune’s glitchy nostalgia.

The Rome-based producer, known for his elastic approach to tempo and texture, opens up new space on this EP for Sketchy Lines Records. Toulouse Low Trax delivers two takes on “Junk Foot,” each one pulling the original into different orbits, while Kamoun’s rework of “Dixan Cheap Tuning” offers another dimension entirely. Fresh dimensions indeed – this is A-Tweed at his most exploratory, and the results are properly compelling.

Out February 24th on Sketchy Lines Records.