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Text Chunk is the recording project from Edmonton-based experimental artist & Kudatah-label founder, Brandon Smith. Smith’s burgeoning discography contorts all manners of left-field dance, juke, ambient & other innovative sounds into a freakish and hypnotic collection of club cuts and bleeding-edge electronic compositions.
In a seminal moment that would determine his next decade of creative output, he found demos from Sven K online and reached out; at this point they quickly realized they were neighbors, rare appreciators of leftfield music both based in Edmonton. They'd launch a label, Kudatah, with friends that would serve as an outlet for their creativity while establishing important inroads with influential genre-agnostic producers globally. His debut, 2018's No Fun, kicks off with "Liquid," marries the lonely corporate ambience of vaporwave with intricate, IDM-indebted drum programming and "Counterintuitive," fuses widescreen Detroit-style pads with gabber rhythms. On other releases and collaborative cuts with Hood Joplin & Sven K, Smith demonstrates this push-and-pull—between high-tempo, intricate percussion and sweeping elegance—that distinguishes the Text Chunk discography. In 2020, Sven K, Skee Mask, and Text Chunk collaborated on a track for the third Kudatah compilation, recorded at the Ilian Tape mainstay's studio in Munich. Smith is currently preparing a series of new EPs set to release on various labels such as Evar Records, Infinite Drift, and Moveltraxx.
In a seminal moment that would determine his next decade of creative output, he found demos from Sven K online and reached out; at this point they quickly realized they were neighbors, rare appreciators of leftfield music both based in Edmonton. They'd launch a label, Kudatah, with friends that would serve as an outlet for their creativity while establishing important inroads with influential genre-agnostic producers globally. His debut, 2018's No Fun, kicks off with "Liquid," marries the lonely corporate ambience of vaporwave with intricate, IDM-indebted drum programming and "Counterintuitive," fuses widescreen Detroit-style pads with gabber rhythms. On other releases and collaborative cuts with Hood Joplin & Sven K, Smith demonstrates this push-and-pull—between high-tempo, intricate percussion and sweeping elegance—that distinguishes the Text Chunk discography. In 2020, Sven K, Skee Mask, and Text Chunk collaborated on a track for the third Kudatah compilation, recorded at the Ilian Tape mainstay's studio in Munich. Smith is currently preparing a series of new EPs set to release on various labels such as Evar Records, Infinite Drift, and Moveltraxx.
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