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Hulubalang is the solo project of inventive electronic producer, sound artist, label owner (Gorong Gorong Records) and DJ Kasimyn from Indonesia, best known as one-half of Gabber Modus Operandi. Debut album 'Bunyi Bunyi Tumbal', released in June 2023 on Jordanian label Drowned by Locals. The Quietus lauded his album as "ambitious in every sense; technically masterful, conceptually complex, and emotionally potent".

Hailing from Kenya, the duo ODD OKODDO consisting of Sven Kacirek and Olith Ratego works with a spellbinding blend of avantgarde electronic rhythms and contemporary folk tradition of the Kenyan Luo people. The result is what singer and instrument builder Olith Ratego calls "dodo blues". Collaborating with Ogoya Nengo they will be releasing a new abum PALAGEMO on June 5th via From Cool Waters – PALAGOMA channels an electroacoustic synergy unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. They will be playing their release concert aboard the MS Stubnitz.

Das Konzert ist Teil von blurred edges–Festival für aktuelle Musik in Hamburg, 29.5.2026 bis 28.6.2026. blurred edges 2026 wird gefördert von der Behörde für Kultur und Medien der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, dem Musikfonds e.V. mit Projektmitteln des Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, der ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS, der Hamburgischen Kulturstiftung, der Claussen-Simon-Stiftung und der Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten (GVL).

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Hulubalang

With an expansive knowledge of global club music, a keen interest in local sound traditions, and an ongoing desire to experiment, Hulubalang's productions depart from a similar place as do his productions for Gabber Modus Operandi or with his more dancefloor oriented alias Kasimyn: driven by the belief that the most contemporary sounds and age-old traditional music forms are clearly connected, his productions intend to connect past histories and speculations on the future without the need for boring and outdated categorisations. Yet with Hulubalang, Kasimyn explores more personal, and at the same time more conceptual and narrative terrain.

These ambitions brilliantly manifest on Hulubalang's debut album 'Bunyi Bunyi Tumbal', released in June 2023 on Jordanian label Drowned by Locals. The album, whose title roughly translates to »Synthetic Feeling for Anonymous Sacrifice«, is a sincere sonic contemplation on the emotions born out of a deep dive into the Indonesian war archives. These archives include a trove of photographs documenting the era of Dutch rule, captured through the lens of the colonizers themselves. Throughout the brutal noise scapes, ghostly samples, ferocious polyrhythms, and mutating club music tropes of the album Hulubalang centers on the peripheral figures populating these historical records – secondary characters, devoid of individual significance, who bear no names, receive no recognition, violently forced to serve as props in the broader narrative of history. The album is a personal act of catharsis stemming from a long lineage of anger. It stands as a sorrowful tribute to the non-belligerent victims of war and oppression and their "sacrifice", to a village whose ritualistic dance, one night, was disrupted by external forces, causing the tune to shatter and leaving the dance caught in a space between innocence and pain. The Quietus lauded the album as "ambitious in every sense; technically masterful, conceptually complex, and emotionally potent".

Next to his work as Hulubalang, and with Gabber Modus Operandi, Kasimyn runs the label Gorong Gorong Records, aimed at showcasing a new wave of electronic and experimental productions from Bali. In 2022 Kasimyn produced several tracks for Björk’s celebrated release Fossora, and performed within Tianzhuo Chen’s durational performance piece TRANCE.

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ODD OKODDO & Ogoya Nengo

The artists have collaborated in various guises before; German-born Kacirek co-produced and recorded Nengo’s 2014 captivating debut LP for Honest Jon’s, Rang'ala, while Ratego and Kacirek formed the duo ODD OKODDO in 2018, performing at Uganda’s influential Nyege Nyege Festival in 2023 and at events all over the world. However, PALAGOMA combines their abilities for the first time. Within the album’s bedrock of hard-edged daydreamy folktronica, the trio carve out messages of love, pain, and courage that draw on their multiple trajectories.

Kacirek has been working with East African culture for nearly 20 years and brings a wealth of musicality to the album, notably having just recorded and produced the forthcoming Nyege Nyege album for xylophone ensemble Nakibembe Embaire Group. Later this year, the Ugandan label will also publish a children’s book about colonialism, featuring stories by Kacirek and Wangari Grace.

Oyoya Nengo (which means "the most precious and expensive singer in the region” in the Dholuo language) initially met Kacirek in 2009 as part of this field recording project, The Kenya Sessions, and credits Kacirek for helping to launch her career, having worked together on the aforementioned Rang'ala. “That is why I like Sven, because Sven lift me up. I took him like my son, and Sven took me like his mother,” she says. What’s more, as neighbours in Kenya, Ratego and Nengo live just three minutes apart by motorbike, and have known each other for “a very long time”. These close bonds are the creative glue that holds PALAGOMA together.

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