Premiere: Strange Fruit – Iridescent (Jonathan Kusuma Hypnodubmix)

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Kusuma strips Strange Fruit’s original back to its essence and rebuilds it as something altogether more hypnotic.

On a Gentle Tuesday morning, quite absurd, Strange Fruit met Kusuma—not a word!
They mixed and dubbed with basslines deep, While Jakarta’s dreams were half asleep.

“O lovely-dark Hypnodubmix!” they cried, “With pulsing grooves and vocals wide!
We’ll strip it down to crystal cores, And float through hazy dancefloor doors!”

They took their synths, both left and right, And dub-delay through Jakarta night,
With Dekadenz drums and proto-beats, They shuffled ’round on Gentle feet.

The Iridescent glow, so strange, Through Bandcamp lanes began to range,
From Cocktail d’Amore to the Drips EP, They hypno-dubbed with jubilee!

And when the mastering was done, In Metz, in Paris, ‘neath the sun,
They packed it up in Tuesday wraps, For dancefloor dreamers taking naps.

So if you hear that bassline throb, Remember Kusuma and the mob—
Strange Fruit floating, dubbed and bright, On Gentle Tuesdays, left and right!

There’s a particular alchemy that happens when a band and producer find themselves on the same wavelength – not through careful planning, but through the natural convergence of shared musical worlds. Jakarta’s Strange Fruit and electronic artist Jonathan Kusuma have arrived at exactly that point with the Hypnodubmix of “Iridescent,” the first glimpse of the band’s forthcoming Drips EP.

Strange Fruit has always inhabited dual territories. While their shoegaze-leaning live sound draws from dreamy, guitar-driven atmospheres, members Baldi Calvianca and Irza Aryadiaz have deep roots in electronic music – producing, DJing, and moving through the same underground circuits as Kusuma himself. This isn’t a band reaching outside of their comfort zone for a remix; it’s a collaboration between kindred spirits who’ve been orbiting the same musical universe all along.

With releases on Cocktail d’Amore, Correspondant, and Minh, Kusuma strips “Iridescent” back to its essence and rebuilds it as something altogether more hypnotic. Pulsing basslines, dub-driven rhythms, and spectral traces of the vocals drifting through the haze. It’s patient, immersive, and designed for those late-night moments when the dancefloor becomes a meditation.

With three more remixes still to come ahead of the EP’s 2026 release via Gentle Tuesday Recordings, Strange Fruit are charting a new path…

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