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La Octava Dimensión – Fujimori
Another day, another Bandcamp find for us. This time I brought you La Octava Dimensión (The Eighth Dimension), a Chilean band coming straight from the capital city, Santiago, from where I’m writing right now. Not much is known about them, but I’ll share with you the little pieces I found. They are a duo formed […]
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Artist: La Octava Dimensión
Another day, another Bandcamp find for us. This time I brought you La Octava Dimensión (The Eighth Dimension), a Chilean band coming straight from the capital city, Santiago, from where I’m writing right now. Not much is known about them, but I’ll share with you the little pieces I found.
They are a duo formed in 2020—right before the pandemic—by Cormano and Kaveido and are influenced by groups such as The B-52’s, Alaska y Los Pegamoides, and Buzzcocks. They kick-off 2021 with their dissonant and shaky single Maruchan, a dark blend of punk and new wave, complete with dancing bass, fast drums, and echoing, lamenting vocals. In December 2021, they came out with their debut EP, Fujimori. Let’s check out what it is about.
This short release opens with a reverberating intro composed of dizzy Japanse hogaku sounds mixed with a down-pitched sample of a speech given by Peruvian ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori—which, you guessed, is the reason behind the EP’s name—while he was on trial in 2007. After setting the atmosphere, we go right into “La visión del Sr. Tagomi”. What we hear first is a chorus-filled meandering feedback that turns into a classic hard and firm punk beat in a slow fashion. Overdriven and rowdy, but poppy at the same time. You can mosh to it, you can dance to it, you can fight to it, in your room, your bathroom, the streets, your body will tell you. The track’s an open invitation to sweat while dancing in its grim surf ambiance.
“Pálida (vómito en el zapato)”, the third track, starts with distorted bass and then goes on and hits with a similar vibe. At this point, it’s clear what the band’s going for. They declare on their Bandcamp page that their music and lyrics mix “kawaii-textured fascism” and science fiction. “Publicidad”, the fourth and final track, is my favorite one in here. Groovy, spacey, simple, and fun. The melted sound of the guitars shines through just right and the mix, in general, feels more solid and compacted.
Despite the fact that the singing doesn’t do quite much for me (except for the distorted radio-like vocals in the pre-chorus of “Publicidad”, which are great and make me think how could’ve been this EP if it had vocals entirely done in that style), the nine minutes this short post-punk release offered us are enough to leave us wondering what else could be inside these mysterious (although we can see some faces in their Spotify profile) mischievous minds. There’s clearly still a lot of potential in this new band, in their sound, and approach, so I definitely want to know where they’ll go next. I guess we’ll have to stay tuned. See you next time!
Source: diyconspiracy.net
