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โAs Fake Estatesโ by Los Angeles-based duo GANGI arrives on Aug. 5 via the bandโs Office of Analogue and Digital label, streaming on all digital services, and also as a vinyl release with etched B-side.
These very limited vinyl copies are artifacts, having been pressed and stored at the time that the original recordings were made a decade ago, only to be released now.
Previously praised as โdark and richโ (Los Angeles Times) for its โaural collage that seems aimed at warping any expectationsโ (LA Weekly) or more esoterically, โa soundtrack to cognitive dissonanceโ (Under the Radar), GANGIโs โelectro-psych evolution has been years in the makingโ according to SPIN, writing in the summer of 2012 about the Los Angeles-based duoโs second album.
Now, โmakingโ is made as GANGI (Matt Gangi and Eric Chramosta) lands in the future with a three-song suite of sonic disturbance from the past.
The material on โAs Fake Estatesโ was recorded around the same time as the 2012 GANGI album gesture is, and is mostly comprised of what Matt Gangi describes as โmangledโ versions of songs that date back to the debut GANGI album A, released in 2007. โWe sampled and re-constructed our own re-recordings to make most of it,โ he explains.
Chramosta terms the new release โa multiple-decade long lineage of assembly, disassembly and reassemblyโ or the re-examination of โthat which had been left to collect digital dust. Two menโs trash can be the same menโs treasure.โ
The elements that call back GANGIโs psych-pop past are heavily spliced and fed through myriad electronic components, channeling the anarchy of The Pop Group and melting warble of DJ Screw. Other influences include Black Dice and Salem.
