I imagine Roon Radio sent me to Kassie Krut after hitting play on DJ Haram’s Beside Myself one too many times.
Kassie Krut is ex-Palm members Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt and their self-produced, self-titled debut EP from last year made a splash and I’ve been enjoying its danceable bouncy bones. Even though I’m no dancer.
That debut came out in 2024 but to keep up with my theme of talking about mostly recent-er releases, I’m focusing on this Explanded EP, released by Fire Talk back in June, that adds remix versions of each track by Berlin-based Italian artist Fabrizio Carlini as COIDO, Tanzanian producer DJ Travella, The JLB, and my favorite due to familiarity Panda Bear (of Animal Collective and solo fame).
From the liner notes for the original EP:
On Kassie Krut’s self-produced, self-titled debut EP, their approach is deceptively simple. With a constrained palette and a penchant for repetition, they find a world of opposing textures and timbres: electric and acoustic, synthetic and organic, smooth and frictive, terrestrial and celestial. Their scratch-made sounds melodize the hard-edged noise of daily life—car alarms, notification chimes, dial tones, feedback—setting it against stutter-step high hats, pots-and-pans percussion, and tensile bass tones that thrash around in the head like a rubber ball.
I enjoy the thrashing around in my head like a rubber ball bit.