News / / 17.03.14

Giganta

Now, we’re not afraid to admit that we’d back pretty much anything Actress has put his almighty stamp on. Yet the bubblegum-tinged electronics from latest Werkdiscs signing Giganta have caught us slightly off guard, sounding not a touch like the dust-grooved, scrapyard techno you may have heard on Ghettoville and much more like SOPHIE’s stirringly bright 2013 debut Bipp. “I’m always seeking for the light in things”, Athens- based producer Eleni Adamopoulou explains. The emerging artist attended the “inspiring” Red Bull Music Academy in Madrid in 2011, soaking up stimulus from various speakers and participants, but it’s the current state of economic turmoil and political unrest in her city that is of prior influence to her output. Although “there aren’t many places open to fresh sounds” in Athens’ somewhat sparse club scene, over the last seven years, she tells us “more and more people are DJing or making their own music, probably as a way to express themselves or because they have much more free time.” Also taking a hand in co-running Athens’ Rotation parties, it’s her resilience to this turbulence that forms the backbone to her production. “It has been hard for most people in Greece the last few years, as it has been for me” she says, “but this didn’t make me weak, it keeps me stronger. I try not to give space to the negative things that happen. Music is a power mechanism to spread some happiness in life.” Given the day-glo production and silver sheened synths on her debut EP Force, out now via Werkdiscs/Ninja Tune, Giganta is certainly crafting light out of darkness.

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