Laugh Jokes by secat and ODAE

The long-awaited split release from music's hottest power couple!

secat: “life is quite difficult sometimes. i was thinking about ricardo villalobos (“y.g.h.” in particular) and drinking lots of coffee. this is my tribute to svelte basslines and the magic of synth1. quantizing is for suckers!”

ODAE: "A collection of frozen states, with something inside trying to wriggle out, or something! - Was having fun exploring techniques in partnership with my Nord 3P, got concerned with how the results of that process were valuable to me, and ended up with something sparse and porous that I quite enjoy."

Both artists love to laugh, but they also love to tell jokes. Consider the following a tribute to five years of mutual adoration.

"Convention is thrown to the wind . . . Split between svelte basslines arranged around non-quantized beats and self-described ‘frozen states’, secat and ODAE’s Laugh Jokes is simultaneously broken, riotous fun and a trip into the deep interior of placid (whether illusory or real) sound construction . . . [the album] is difficult to pin down, more a structure of feeling(s) than a coherent narrative body. And all the better for it."

—Gabe Meier, "The Best Club Music on Bandcamp: July – September 2023"

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