Pekodjinn - TN Tape (2024) [Hi-Res]

Pekodjinn is back with "TN TAPE," a project composed between his country of origin, Tunisia, and Geneva, the city where he grew up. Continuing his previous work, the producer draws from the traditional sounds of North Africa to create a unique, percussive, powerful, and emancipatory club music. As a child of the diaspora, Pekodjinn reclaims part of his family heritage to produce a futuristic mix where darbukas meet trap influences, 60s violin productions blend into batida, and percussion is distorted by dub effects. Underground to the core, Peko' defends a street approach where credibility is more about human value and studio performance than appearance and trendy edits.

Constantly searching, Pekodjinn spends hours tweaking his machines in his small home studio, driving his roommates crazy. Hyperactive, he develops his own style, which he willingly calls "afromaghreb." The goal is to create a unique, percussive, futuristic, proud, and violent Maghrebi club sound. A sound for young people, on the continent and in the diaspora. A sound of emancipation and questioning of imperialist and colonialist clichés. "Avoiding any form of orientalism and kitsch is a necessity in our practices if we want to break free from the codes imposed on us, the children of the diaspora," explains the producer.

After his highly political debut album Dharba released in 2023, Pekodjinn offers a radical, raw project, focused on the streets and decidedly angry. The layers of percussion cannot hide the brutal beats and their excited BPMs. Partially recorded in Tunis, "TN TAPE" tells the madness of the streets of North Africa, where street vendors rub shoulders with gleaming counterfeit shops, where makeshift sound systems blast the latest trendy productions or classic Arab music, and where scooters speed off in clouds of dust. But far from the tourist cliché, the EP aims to reflect a particular political and social reality, a youth turned towards elsewhere, and a latent revolt waiting for a spark to explode. This spirit is also found in the illustrations of Geneva-based tattoo artist and graffiti artist Razab, whose work adorns the project. Dark and subversive, like a pair of Nikes fallen off a truck, "TN TAPE" is ready to crush everything in its path.

Tracklist:
1-1. Pekodjinn - Dima tool (02:15)
1-2. Pekodjinn - Kifech (03:01)
1-3. Pekodjinn - Tunis N9 (03:23)
1-4. Sabry Mosbah, Pekodjinn - Mansit (03:27)
1-5. Pekodjinn - Abu b4kr (01:59)
1-6. Pekodjinn - Laisse parler (03:27)
1-7. DJ Danifox, Pekodjinn - Oud Lisboa (02:49)