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Where Diger Rokwell’s prior releases, The Earthhead and Digstrumentals, were a sprawling mass of samples from across the globe and genres, Digerbodia: remixes and beats from the Khmer Kingdom, finds him focusing and refining those ideas on the music from the Khmer Kingdom of Cambodia. The first chapter in a series of “beat tourism” beat tapes; these 7 tracks are built on samples unearthed on a journey in Cambodia.
Utilising inspiration gained from the golden age of Cambodian popular music, the work of artists including Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Sereysothea and Pen Ron, is re-imagined as a series of hip hop, prog-hop and quasi-dub step rhythms.
Digerbodia swelters with the exotic, cosmic realms and humidity similar to it’s spiritual home. While it reflects the work Madlib’s numerous musical forays into India, this beat tape is also an ode to those educated free thinkers, musicians, artists and countless other minority groups who were displaced or murdered by the Khmer Rouge Year Zero campaign from 1975-79.
Digerbodia is released through The Community Records & Paper Chain. With part proceeds made from the release to be donated to organizations assisting Cambodian landmine victims.