Takkak Takkak
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.
Про Takkak Takkak
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.



