8bit Balkan

The post-national music community still continues to impress me every once in awhile and this is one such occasion: two friends of mine have joined forces to present a fantastic project out of leftfield. My brother by way of Romania/Japan Stevhen Koji Iancu aka Dolomites (whom I discovered when working on the Mehanata compilation years ago) has been working on his own version of West Coast Bass based on his melancholic accordion sound filtered through 8-bit video game glitch aesthetic and has created a unique musical niche in the Bay Area. Now he is expanding the niche with the help of another friend DJ Mohak from Berlin (read her fantastic blog here) and releasing an EP of his new sound on her recently founded label If The Kids Records:

Dolomites - 8bit Balkan

Available in digital stores worldwide on September 19th 2011.