#87 Top Releases in Bass / Club

Trikks striking debut album Fauna & Flora cultivates a sense of scale, character and broad- minded musicianship across ten genre-fusing tracks. Just as its namesake spans the vast spectrum of life on Earth, so this expansive document draws from a diverse sound palette that jumps from widescreen psychedelia and industrial-crusted pop to baile funk and foreboding techno. Partly descending from the club-focussed fare with which Trikk made his name, he also reaches for art-rock, punk and post-punk to expand on his electronic foundations. In bringing a variety of instruments and more hands-on recording techniques into his toolkit, for Fauna & Flora he also worked with an array of collaborators, including Swiss DJ and musician Jimi Jules and Brazilian visual artist Gabriel Massan, stepping outside his comfort zone. I wanted to create that feeling where there are these rays of light and total darkness, its a game between these two worlds coexisting, he says of the albums theme.

Trikk, Jimi Jules, Gabriel Massan, Feon