DIGER ROKWELL - DIGERBODIA: REMIXES AND BEATS FROM THE KHMER KINGDOM. EP

RELEASE DATE: 22 MAY 2010

BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE COMMUNITY & PAPER CHAIN

Where Diger Rokwell’s prior releases, The Earthhead and Digstrumentals, were a sprawling mass of samples from across the globe and genres, Digerbodia: remixes and beats from the Khmer Kingdom, finds him focusing and refining those ideas on the music from the Khmer Kingdom of Cambodia. The first chapter in a series of “beat tourism” EPs; these 7 tracks are built on samples unearthed on a journey in Cambodia. 

Utilising inspiration gained from the golden age of Cambodian popular music, the work of artists including Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Sereysothea and Pan Ron, is re-imagined as a series of hip hop, prog-hop and quasi-dub step rhythms.

Featuring such standout tracks as Mother Mekong - a blissful melodic trip hop journey down Cambodia's mother river, and Phnom Penh Pressure - a hip hop flavoured remix of Sinn Sisamouth – Cambodia’s King of golden age popular music.

Digerbodia swelters with the exotic, cosmic realms and humidity similar it’s spiritual home. While it reflects the work Madlib’s numerous musical forays into India, this beat tape is also an ode to those educated free thinkers, musicians, artists and countless other minority groups who were displaced or murdered by the Khmer Rouge Year Zero campaign from 1975-79.

This is also the beginning of a big year for Diger. Mid-2010 sees the release of a full-length album ‘We are All Related’ - featuring Diger’s live instrumentation and heavy psyched-out overlays. Then in late 2010 there’ll be the free downloadable World Psychedelic Remix Album, constructed with sounds from all over the globe.

Then the beat tourism continues in 2011 with Diger already concocting his Digernesia project. Diger being an Indonesian teacher by trade, he plans to travel to Jakarta and dig for the sound of Indonesia for a 2011 beat tape and companion piece to the monsoonal storm of samples that is Digerbodia.

Digerbodia is released through The Community Records & Paper Chain. With half of the proceeds made from the EP to be donated to organizations assisting Cambodian landmine victims.

Digerbodia will be launch at The Bird on Saturday the 22nd of May with support from Mathas, Sibalance, Ill 66 and Ben M {move}. $15 will get you entry and ’Digerbodia’ EP. Also Diger’s new line of t-shirts, The Earthhead LP and other community merchandise will also be on sale.

AVAILABLE THROUGH ITUNES AND LOCAL INDEPENDENT RETAILERS FROM MAY 22 2010.