ELECTRONIC POST-PUNK DUO WORKING WITH SELF-BUILT INSTRUMENTS, SENSOR-AUGMENTED GUITARS, AND SOMATIC PERFORMANCE
OBI BLANCHE AND KRISTINA TICA MET IN LINZ, AUSTRIA, DURING AN UNEXPECTED B2B DJ SET AND QUICKLY RECOGNISED A SHARED LANGUAGE IN SELF-BUILT INSTRUMENTS, MINIMAL BEATS, AND RAW MELODIC STRUCTURES.
IN 2024, THEY FORMALISED THEIR COLLABORATION UNDER THE CONCEPT OF #POSTDIGITALPUNK, A PLATFORM MERGING DIY INSTRUMENT BUILDING, MINIMAL SONGS OF MELANKOLIKA AND SOMATIC PERFORMANCE.
THEIR LIVE SET MOVES BETWEEN DANCE FLOOR MOMENTUM AND TANGIBLE EXPERIMENTATION WITH SELF-BUILT GUITARS. OBI BLANCHE’S SOUND BALANCES DIRTY TRANSISTOR RHYTHMS WITH UNSTABLE, EXPRESSIVE GUITAR TEXTURES, SHAPED BY YEARS OF WORK ACROSS EXPERIMENTAL AND POPULAR CONTEXTS. KRISTINA TICA, ROOTED IN THE BELGRADE UNDERGROUND, PERFORMS ON BRAKE, A CUSTOM-BUILT BASS. HER MINIMAL YET HEAVY LOW-END LINES AND WORN BARITONE VOCALS BRING DEPTH AND GRIT TO THE SOUND.
INFLUENCED BY UNDERGROUND CLUB CULTURE, ART SPACES, AND EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE, THE DUO CREATES LIVE ENVIRONMENTS WHERE BODY, BASS, AND TENSION BECOME PART OF THE COMPOSITION.
IN 2024, THEY FORMALISED THEIR COLLABORATION UNDER THE CONCEPT OF #POSTDIGITALPUNK, A PLATFORM MERGING DIY INSTRUMENT BUILDING, MINIMAL SONGS OF MELANKOLIKA AND SOMATIC PERFORMANCE.
THEIR LIVE SET MOVES BETWEEN DANCE FLOOR MOMENTUM AND TANGIBLE EXPERIMENTATION WITH SELF-BUILT GUITARS. OBI BLANCHE’S SOUND BALANCES DIRTY TRANSISTOR RHYTHMS WITH UNSTABLE, EXPRESSIVE GUITAR TEXTURES, SHAPED BY YEARS OF WORK ACROSS EXPERIMENTAL AND POPULAR CONTEXTS. KRISTINA TICA, ROOTED IN THE BELGRADE UNDERGROUND, PERFORMS ON BRAKE, A CUSTOM-BUILT BASS. HER MINIMAL YET HEAVY LOW-END LINES AND WORN BARITONE VOCALS BRING DEPTH AND GRIT TO THE SOUND.
INFLUENCED BY UNDERGROUND CLUB CULTURE, ART SPACES, AND EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE, THE DUO CREATES LIVE ENVIRONMENTS WHERE BODY, BASS, AND TENSION BECOME PART OF THE COMPOSITION.
HIGHLIGHTS
NAMED ONE OF TEOSTO’S 10 GLOBAL BREAKTHROUGH ARTISTS
GUITAR AND COMPOSITION FEATURED IN SONY PICTURES’ THE EQUALIZER 3, WITH THOMAS AZIER
FEATURED IN POST-PUNK.COM, GROOVE MAGAZINE AND BANDCAMP DAILY
PERFORMANCES AT DIM BELGRADE, FOTOGRAFISKA BERLIN, 8MM BERLIN, BOILER ROOM BERLIN AND STWST LINZ
COLLABORATIONS WITH ANIKA, YURI LANDMAN, ISABELLE WENZEL AND THOMAS AZIER
DEVELOPED CUSTOM POST-DIGITAL GUITARS RAKE AND BRAKE
NAMED ONE OF TEOSTO’S 10 GLOBAL BREAKTHROUGH ARTISTS
GUITAR AND COMPOSITION FEATURED IN SONY PICTURES’ THE EQUALIZER 3, WITH THOMAS AZIER
FEATURED IN POST-PUNK.COM, GROOVE MAGAZINE AND BANDCAMP DAILY
PERFORMANCES AT DIM BELGRADE, FOTOGRAFISKA BERLIN, 8MM BERLIN, BOILER ROOM BERLIN AND STWST LINZ
COLLABORATIONS WITH ANIKA, YURI LANDMAN, ISABELLE WENZEL AND THOMAS AZIER
DEVELOPED CUSTOM POST-DIGITAL GUITARS RAKE AND BRAKE
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