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NON WORLDWIDE's Nkisi Shares Blistering New Collection 'DJ KITOKO VOL.1'

The release was uploaded to SoundCloud with little fanfare yesterday.
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London artist and NON WORLDWIDE co-founder, Nkisi, has uploaded a characteristically blistering new collection of tracks to SoundCloud called DJ KITOKO VOL.1. Starting off with the stingingly crystalline synth arpeggiation of "dunda," the release moves to the shuffling, marching drums and fuzzily glowing rave synths on "KARMA'''; from there "FLUSH" delivers an expansive, trancey, and restless dose of melody, before "Make me dance" closes things off with a glassily cascading guitar figure, enmeshed between eerily warbling synths and a vocal sample entreating the track's title phrase.

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The release's album artwork is an image of a Nkisi, a pre-colonial power figure used in the Kingdom of Kongo; the image used is from the African section of the World Cultures Gallery at World Museum Liverpool, online here. In an October 2015 interview with Truants, the artist explained her interest in the figures:

"I think I've always been fascinated by those sculptures because I guess in Western eyes it looks really scary and it's this kind of angry sculpture that's really frightening," she said. The artist also added that much of what she's "found about those objects has always been anthropology studies or missionary stuff" pursued by people who colonized the Congo, concluding, "I just really like [that] the object has like a lot of layers."

DJ KITOKO VOL.1 follows her self-release of "MOKONZI" a month ago; stream the collection below.

London artist and NON WORLDWIDE co-founder, Nkisi, has uploaded a characteristically blistering new collection of tracks to SoundCloud called DJ KITOKO VOL.1. Starting off with the stingingly crystalline synth arpeggiation of "dunda," the release moves to the shuffling, marching drums and fuzzily glowing rave synths on "KARMA'''; from there "FLUSH" delivers an expansive, trancey, and restless dose of melody, before "Make me dance" closes things off with a glassily cascading guitar figure, enmeshed between eerily warbling synths and a vocal sample entreating the track's title phrase.

The release's album artwork is an image of a Nkisi, a pre-colonial power figure used in the Kingdom of Kongo; the image used is from the African section of the World Cultures Gallery at World Museum Liverpool, online here. In an October 2015 interview with Truants, the artist explained her interest in the figures:

"I think I've always been fascinated by those sculptures because I guess in Western eyes it looks really scary and it's this kind of angry sculpture that's really frightening," she said. The artist also added that much of what she's "found about those objects has always been anthropology studies or missionary stuff" pursued by people who colonized the Congo, concluding, "I just really like [that] the object has like a lot of layers."

DJ KITOKO VOL.1 follows her self-release of "MOKONZI" a month ago; stream the collection below.

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