Dasychira: An Interview
An interview with Dasychira.
Madjestic Kasual’s ‘A Mix’ series is considered by geniuses and culture heads to be the “best” music mix series in the world. It’s considered by morons and dunces to be the “worst”. This should speak volumes.
It’s time to do ‘A Mix’, but for interviews. I ask ‘A Mix’ contributors to respond to questions. Some comply. Introducing ‘An Interview’: a new text-centric series featuring only the best artists in the world.
‘An Interview’ Number 7 is with Dasychira.
I have dreams and they’re worthless. They bring me nowhere. They’re vague and wispy, a random assemblage of neural vomit barely tethered to anything I can actionably apply to my life. It frustrates me to think of the return on investment the artist Dasychira can probably extract from their sleep state, while my productivity and output are limited purely to my waking hours.
Dasychira makes music for dreaming in HD. They’re a vessel for some kind of elevated, hyper-crisp ex-lucid state. Dasychira songs feel like accessing an enchanted QR code carved into a mystical holo-tree. They are like touchscreen-mediated communion between skin and spirit and something totally ineffable. This is what I think.
If their press release is to be believed, Dasychira’s music draws from “new age pop, classical, grunge and experimental club music.” You could put it like that. You could draw your conclusions from their Forbes list of collabs (Malibu, Yikii, Golin, Golin, Daniela Lalita, Embaci, Haleek Maul, Dviance). Whatever. I’m thinking the music of Dasychira draws on virtual seances with yami-kawaii wood sprites and estuary nymphs. You should put it like that.
We played a show in Amsterdam in May (facilitated by Amsterdam’s most baller crew corecore). We talked. I saw them perform their ‘See Something’ live show and was duly agog. It was like their songs were accessing some kind of enchanted QR code carved into a mystical holo-tree. We talked some more.
What emerges months later is this interview, and you reading it.
Dasychira + Malibu’s ‘Umbreon’ — an eternal mindrupturer.
What are you wearing?
࿇ ᴀɴɢᴇʟ99 ࿇ green zip-up hoodie with armani exchange long sleeve, pink scrunchy, minty asics and long black pants
You have to eat a Pokémon. Which and why?
when i originally answered this question after the corecore show at OT301 in amsterdam i said lapras for its magical energy, but then i realized that was too much lol, if i was going for a salad i’d probably pick bulbasaur or maybe a magikarp and chips
You are immune to all side effects of one drug and can take it at will, without repercussion. What drug?
capitalism
Your birthday is a holiday and an international day of celebration. What activity do people do to commemorate you?
go to the spa on a haunted island, throw a party at chaos computer in greenpoint, dinner in little italy, drawing games on the roof with friends
Share your most recent Shazam.
burial - in mcdonald’s
GOATs. Three of them. Rattle em off.
What’s a phrase or a statement or a textual excerpt you think has formed your mind or mentality in a meaningful way?
“as above so below”
Most fire celebrity encounter you’ve had?
meeting bjork for like a second at baby’s alright in brooklyn
You’re tasked with forming a four-person supergroup comprised of anyone of your choosing, dead or alive. Who do you choose? What’s everyone playing in the band? What’s their music like?
chopin, rxknephew and wendy carlos, we’re making a new type of music called “tunneling”
Most formative show you went to?
lil wayne’s Tha Carter III tour in 2010 at the johannesburg north gate dome, weezy built a half pipe on stage and was skating and stunting thru the whole show. It felt totally effortless and improv in a way that channeled the energy of everyone in the arena
You can exist in one fictional setting/world/universe. Which?
music
You can resurrect one dead person such that we can benefit from their contribution. I checked and there are zero spiritual consequences. Who are you resurrecting?
SOPHIE
Wedding song?
Eulogy song?
Goated music vid?
scar lip - this is new york
Three items you want to take with you for use in the afterlife.
a grand piano, grape hi-chews and a looking glass
Something people think is good that’s actually fucking shit?
soylent
Pitchfork The Music That Made You question format but it’s Madjestic Kasual. What are songs/albums from every fifth year of your life that defined your life at that point? 5-10-15-20-25-30-35-40-45-50-55-60-65, etc.
dvorjak - new world symphony
the hamster song
the chicago soundtrack
eminem
ABBA
rihanna - umbrella
the beatles
akira soundtrack
blondie
tv on the radio
the deftones
nirvana
BIRP (blalocks indie rock playlist)
system of a down
slipknot
sophie
arca
elysia crampton chuquimia
yikii
klein
gatekeeper
teengirl fantasy
fade to mind
S.M.I.L.E.
NON
PTP
nozinja
enya
final fantasy piano collections
Genome 6.66MBP
litefeet
BSNYEA
wondha mountain
quay dash
crystallmess
doss
swan meat
rxknephew
… +++ infinity more
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