Malakia Torres, better known as Edekit is a Hawaiian producer pushing the boundaries of bass music. Born on the Big Island, he spent his life growing up in the tropical paradise. That is until last year when a volcanic eruption brought him to the mainland. Despite the traumatic event, Edekit was able to find a silver lining, “The lava flow displaced a huge amount of people in the area and the whole community I was connected with dispersed all over the place. Since there wasn’t much left there for myself, or anyone really, I figured it would be a good time to move to the mainland and start releasing my music to a larger audience.”
Recent releases ‘Wookie Snacks’ and ‘I Can’t Even’ introduced us to his insane alien bass sound. His immense talent is fully displayed with his latest release ‘Just A Scratch’. The track is an exercise in sound design and music manipulation. “Basically every single bass, lead, lazer, or alien sound in here is coming from severely processing a regular ol’ sine wave, then resampling it many times over, and then taking the samples and further processing them through granular synthesis, resampling again, processing the samples again, etc. So in the end, other than those vocal samples and the drums I made a whole track using a single note, E0. It’s mind blowing what we can do with audio now-a-days,” Edekit explains.
But it’s not just a flex in technical mastery, Edekit adds in Monty Python samples to give the track some character and charisma. As he puts it, “I really like making tracks that have a super filthy drop but are kinda funny too. For some reason I just love that stuff, there’s something about writing a track that is a banger but also witty, or kind of tongue in cheek that can really make music fun for me.” Snapping drum work ties the wild ride together. If witty bangers are your thing, you’ll be hard pressed to find one that tops ‘Just A Scratch’. Stream below and grab the free download.
