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"What does it sound like when you take the alternately tense and wide open spaces of post-noise rock and underpin them with the muscular metronome of a rugged hip hop beat? Art, baby, that's what happens. On Ri.t Shudo uses a minimal approach to give the greatest impact to the melody. Whereas most producers would take a gorgeous melody and build enormous swells around it until it was grossly overstated, Shudo gives us pristine glimpses of a remarkably honest sound. It's as if he's decided to go much further to sea, out into the deepest waters -- in a rowboat. Or better yet, a kayak, because his sound is about balance. True to the spirit of the eponymous first album 'Shudo,' and it's very personal musical perception, there is evidence of maximalising the minimal. Ri.t goes further into this subtle and crafty method of utilizing deconstruction to build a new musical expression. Shudo is back with a deeper approach of how to build melodies on the lightesttranslucent structures possible: sounds that echo off and click into, reminiscent of serene ghosts demonstrating what urban pop should be about.Taking underground hip-hop's rhythmical strength, post-noise-rock's freedom and so much more! All processed through a laptop and with a more contemporary language,aiming to experiment and combine electronics with a pop/rock/guitar background. This is about music, melodies and occasional tension...The expression of an inner vision and sound, the osmosis between the breathing of a city and its inhabitants. Close your eyes and think about nature's continual cycle of destruction and rebuilding, like perpetually sweeping waves that endlessly change a landscape. Shudo's music is about the very different aspects of evolving organic life. On the other hand there is a more personal statement without words, an expression of a musician concerned about what this world is coming to.The underlying political content of Ri.t is expressed through electronics, not only because it is the most contemporary and somewhat universal language, but because digital tools offer a level of autonomy allowing one to create a personal space; not only in music, but also in image and communication, separate and removed from the claws of corporatism. Blurred textures, floating chords, harsh spheres, deep beats, data corruption, music as visual narration..."
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"Under this strange pseudo you will find happiness and desolation, the initial chaos that turned into a world, with human beings and feelings. Everybody has a 'dark' side that is helping the evolution; one's got the face fear in order to defeat it. This is evolution's subtle rumbling... Don't be afraid, shadows are just there because of light, the balance. Shudo is a young artist from Barcelona, working in the multimedia sector. He is part of reform communications, an interdisciplinary collective that develops different projects related to the experimentation in video, audio, interactivity and the internet . Their attitude brings back the real spirit of DIY, rejecting the role of the creator as professional. In a favour of democratization of the artistic production tools through the use of computers and technology from the approach of the common user. Knowing what the interaction between image and sounds means, and following this spirit, he developed an incredible parade of 'freaky' and groovy sounds from the wildest sound appropriationism. As he says, he is not a musician, he just works with the sounds in a very visual and plastic way, just like he could work with images or volumes. Some little soundscapes for abstract inner visions. An universe full of emotions, tension, stress, melancholy, all recreated in order to fit the musical language, so close to the organic part of ourselves as well as talking smoothly to our soul. If loop rhythms are the basis of each track, strange samples, spooky sounds emerge deeply in order to communicate with your cerebral cortex, a direct adrenaline shot waking you in the middle of a dream. But don't get it wrong, Shudo isn't a repertoire of dark tales or sounds from a bad ambient trip... At the same time experience energy and serenity, the sublime of a cold snowy night, echoes of laughter giving you inner peace in a bad moment. Mixed emotions, the sound of life simply... "
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