• Textural sampling: Experimental electronic producer Kyoka samples tiny bits of sound material (photo: pxfuel)
    Short Essay
    Experimental electronic producer Kyoka’s track «Toy Planet» is not overtly political. Yet, our author argues that the frenetic cutting techniques that Kyoka uses to arrange her sampled sound materials stand for what he calls «techno punk», an attitude that emerges at the re-contextualization of samples that reduces them to a pure sonic fabric devoid of semantics or extra-musical meaning. And the unpolitical becomes political.