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Nightlife meets wildlife: albums created from birdsong and techno beats | Musique Non Stop

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Friday, February 12, 2021

Nightlife meets wildlife: albums created from birdsong and techno beats

A Bogotà nightclub has used the sounds of animals and birds in the Colombian capital to make a new kind of dance track

Stuck inside and unable to hit the dancefloor, many of the regulars at the electronic dance nights at Bogotá’s popular nightclub Kaputt found themselves missing the clubbing community when they were forced into lockdown by Covid-19. But then came a rallying cry from DJs Jorge Pizarro and Felipe Rodríguez: start recording the “sounds from your window”.

Now the results of that callout are reaching a global audience, with a set of albums blending the sounds of animals and birds in the Colombian capital with techno beats available for streaming.

Fans of electronic music may be more willing to engage with ecology because dancing to it is spiritual, a mystical experience

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by Jo Griffin via Electronic music | The Guardian

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