ARTIST: KROKAKAI
TITLE: POISONED WELL
LABEL: HIGHER HOPES
CAT NO: HIGH001
FORMAT: 12’’
GENRE: ELECTRONICA / WAVE / DISCO
RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW

A deeply personal project for the Biologic Records co-boss, Higher Hopes is inspired by the deep immersive, unconventional and left-leaning underground music he loves to play in clubs. Music like Krokakai’s. An emergent Glaswegian producer with a penchant for hardware – largely using an MPC2000XL, SH09, MS20 Mini, TT-303, Roland Alpha Juno and other trusted tools – he’s already turned heads on labels such as Invisible Inc and PowerStation Records. Right here he lays down the label’s parameters with four unique, far-reaching escapades.

Moody, leather-clad synth magic with a hint of eastern promise, ‘Afterburn’ sets the electro and Detroit inspired scene. It’s backed by more dark matter; ‘Horn Please’ is a globule of a track that oozes out of the speakers, ‘The Silk Road’ picks up the eastern trail again and sweeps us deep into the desert on a flying acid carpet before the dreamy electroid finale ‘Final Warning’ floats us back home lucidly.