- Dambala Experience is an outlet for Leipzig's Daniel Stefanik to experiment away from the more formulaic tech house he produces for labels like Cocoon. The results come over like a Monet painting: up close they're all cluttered and unintelligible, but from afar (read: over time) the thousands of carefully placed, minuscule brush strokes all add up to something much greater than their individual worth.
The first offering rolls unevenly like an egg, up one side slowly then down the other at a greater lick, with microcosmic dust particles, wood splinters and steel filings effervescing around the core. It's something of a muted cacophony, frankly, but give yourself over to it for the full 12 minutes and the effect is one of true escapism. The second track is more aqueous and human, with distant chanting and sporadic stirring strings that sound reminiscent of the jungle at sunrise. The final piece is again a dense network of hits and ticks, trickles and scrapes that busy themselves around a monolithic kick drum: too hectic for ambient, too dissociated for the dance floor, these are intricate sound designs for close listening.
Tracklist A Dambala Experience #4
B1 Dambala Experience #5
B2 Dambala Experience #6