The Irish techno duo have made a soundtrack to the Netherlands’ relationship with its “unyielding, colossal, industrial” waters
Lakker, the composers of our most recent mix, have revealed a track from their forthcoming eight track EP, Struggle & Emerge.
The EP, which is out on R&S on 13 May, concentrates on “the complex relationship between the Dutch and the water that surrounds them”, responding to a commission from The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision’s RE:VIVE initiative. The call-out asked artists to create music about “the Dutch and water” using field recordings, TV and radio broadcasts. The duo have delivered after a trip around the country, gaining a “first hand insight into the centuries long tumultuous relationship between the Dutch and the water”, and have created “a tense soundtrack to the machine driven mid-20th century that captures the complex relationship between the Dutch and the water that surrounds them – unyielding, colossal, industrial”.
See the tracklisting for Struggle & Emerge and listen to the “pummeling” Maeslantskering Gating below.
Tracklisting
A1. ‘Reclamation’
A2. ‘Maeslantskering Gating’
A3. ‘Emergo’
A4. ‘Broken Clouds’
B1. ‘Ever Rising’
B2. ‘Fierljeppen’
B3. ‘5000 People’
B4. ‘Open Clouds’