Mayday, by Dualist Inquiry

Mayday

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Delhi-based electronica producer comes out of 18-month hiatus with a sample-laden, texture-heavy production announcing a new sonic direction for one of Indian electronica’s most popular producers

Released on his own label, Dualism Records, ‘Mayday’ is a confident step into new sonic territory for the Delhi-based producer. Dualist Inquiry’s guitar-inflected, dancefloor-friendly productions placed him at front and centre at the new wave of Indian electronica, but the producer’s latest release shows just how reluctant he is to be subjected to classification of that nature.

‘Mayday’, perhaps tellingly, begins with a sample of a harried pilot on the radio who is shouting ‘I don’t know where I am! Mayday, mayday, mayday’ who eventually aborts the mission. The production, layered in sounds and textures, sees Sahej Bakshi leave his pop-oriented, guitar-driven sound behind for one that’s high on emotion and synths, and far more experimental than anything he has done.

"After my last release in 2016, I took a step back and decided to not write any new music until I felt an irrepressible urge, a need to express something. That something ended up being this feeling of falling freely, a mindset that has dominated a few recent phases of my personal journey. As the months went by, I felt my feet firmly on the ground again, and realised that I needed write a song to capture that specific feeling before it fades into my past." - Dualist Inquiry

The artwork for the release has been created by Sijya Gupta and features a man free falling from space, reflective of Sahej's frame of mind.

Dualist Inquiry will also release another track, ‘Fever Dream’ on May 4.

The past 18 months saw Sahej diversify his interests into videography and filmmaking, and also donned the hat of a music entrepreneur. He enrolled in a filmmaking course at FAMU in Prague, and has in fact, directed the videos for his soon-to-be-released tracks ‘Mayday’ and ‘Fever Dream’. He also spent the last few months setting up Boxout.fm – an online community radio that completed a year in April 2018 – as a co-founder along with DJ MoCity.

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released April 20, 2018

Artwork by Sijya Gupta
Mastered by John Webber at Air Studios London.

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