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Adelaide's Datãkae creates woozy, off-kilter, yet distinctly beautiful beats. Playing in the spaces between contemporary bass music, the textural beauty of ambient and the wonky rhythms of glitch hop, his ethereal tunes are a balm for the mind and soul. With a strong commitment to all frequencies in the lower range, combined with a dreamlike, ethereal approach to song craft, Adelaide's Datãkae produces intriguing, often staggeringly beautiful beat-oriented music. Fresh from an acclaimed collaborative EP with fellow Adelaide woozy-beat architect How Green on Uncomfortable Beats, Datãkae's latest release 'Earthsea' finds the producer striking out on his own. Created on the small Indonesian island of Gili Trawangan, the resulting EP is breathtakingly original, combining a love of chopped up vocal samples, hard-hitting offbeat kicks and slowly evolving pads with field recordings, found sounds and a meticulous approach to programming. It's a pure evocation of a time and a place, coiled