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Safety Trance: sacrificio

Pitchfork·Marcos Sanoja·24 days ago
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Luis Garbán Valdeón is no stranger to parties: for years, he has commanded the international warehouse circuit, playing industrial, techno-forward sets under the moniker Cardopusher. Now, as Safety Trance , he offers his experimental take on mutated reggaeton through Venezuelan influences like raptor house , alongside dembow, ’90s Memphis rap, and witch house. The mix of genres and collaborators on his new album, sacrificio , feels distinct to someone who’s been integral to the neo-perreo movement for years. It’s the most readily accessible music of his career, as well as a glitchy, uncanny record that aims to crack through reggaeton’s status quo to reclaim space for counterculture and community. Though operating at the center of the Venezuelan underground, Garbán embodies the disconnect between the scene’s international acclaim and domestic invisibility. Venezuelan media tends to ignore local electronic music or treat it as a curiosity, reflecting a socially conservative mainstream culture.…

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