T3 Revival: Arsenal Mikebe + Takkak Takkak + more
T3 is over – but that doesn't mean there won't be revivals from time to time.
The first revival will take place on January 23rd and will feature Ugandan polyrhythmic hurricane Arsenal Mikebe, who will get every club dancing, and many others.
Bodies, drums, and raw energy come together when Arsenal Mikebe takes the stage. The Ugandan percussion trio plays on a handmade drum set for three players – they dance and drum live until everyone reaches a state of rhythmic ecstasy. Festivals from CTM and Roskilde to Dekmantel have already seen this for themselves, and in January they will get Bratislava dancing too.
This percussion group from the outskirts of Kampala blurs the boundaries between organic and electronic sound. Arsenal Mikebe created an industrial organic rhythm machine by reverse-engineering the TR-808, which allows them to seamlessly incorporate electronic bass sounds into their frenetic performances.
Arsenal Mikebe creates music that "cannot be pigeonholed" – rhythms shatter, intersect, and assemble into hypnotic spirals, while vocal lines oscillate between spiritual singing, whispers, and raw growls. Their debut Drum Machine (2024, Nyege Nyege) is a rhythmic manifesto that races from one explosive dance moment to the next. It is music that constantly defies, rewrites its own rules, and attacks the body and senses with immediate intensity.
The evening will bring a pulsating, uncompromising, and ecstatic experience that is simply irresistible.
"wall-to-wall rhythm. With music this exhilarating, you’d be stupid to refuse" – Bandcamp daily
*"Pure Ugandan polyrhythmic thunder to possess the spirit, no less!" * – Boomkat
“absolute adrenaline rush of polyrhythmic percussion that borders a little on anxiety-inducing. A multi-layered mix of bass kicks, cymbal clicks, and rim shots, the track leaves little room for anything other than the crests of a burbly synth that arrive in perfectly timed waves from what’s apparently a custom-built, reverse-engineered 808.” – The Fader
"don’t reflect genres like club music, metal, or hardcore so much as they burn straight through them. It is a one-of-a-kind release and an all-timer from the great Nyege Nyege Tapes." – Bandcamp daily
"It’s a fiercely disciplined and delirious demonstration of tradition factored by innovation; deploying a custom-built, steel-cast “percussion machine”, modelled on the famous Roland box, in six headlong manoeuvres that use the contraption to do things the 808 cannot, namely: polymetric rhythm." – Boomkat
Takkak Takkak is a playfully eccentric and wildly pulsating collaboration between producer Shigeru Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg / Scotch Rolex / WaqWaq Kingdom) and composer and DIY instrument builder J. Mo’ong Santos Pribadi (Raja Kirik). The two masters of radically distinctive musical worlds combine their fascinations with rhythm, noise, and unbridled energy into an unpredictable, trance-like hurricane.
The project’s name – Takkak Takkak – refers to the Asian tradition of vocal percussion and onomatopoeia, but their sound goes much further: it combines polyrhythmic ecstasy, bass-heavy club madness, DIY instruments, screams, gamelan echoes and electronic hacks. The result is music that is both familiar and unfamiliar, boldly experimental, yet filled with playfulness and humor.
Their debut album on Nyege Nyege Tapes (2024) shows the duo in their purest form: fierce rhythmic boundaries are broken, new traditions are created, and the energy is unpredictable and contagious. Takkak Takkak are an explosion of creative freedom—a sound ritual in which they reference their knowledge of traditional and underground Asian music while also building entirely new paths.
“Up-to-the-minute rave inventions by Shigeru Ishihara (Scotch Rolex) & Mo’ong Santoso Pribadi (half of Indonesia’s Raja Kirik) for Kampala’s undisputed heavyweights Nyege Nyege Tapes.”
Line-up:
- Arsenal Mikebe
- Takkak Takkak
- GbClifford
- Adriana Morn
- Kodiki B2B misxo
- Kýnakapi
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