There's a tile-shop studio in Leeds, where Damiki - named after his father's imaginary childhood friend: the ghost behind the bathroom door - "downloads iPhone sampled orchestras, builds sampler instruments, bends melodicas out of tune and incorporates poems out of his journals."
Nathan Moseley, aka Damiki (who self-describes on his Facebook page as "an audio thug/poetry devotee") plays and manipulates everything on his debut four-and-a-half minute track, 'Before You Got The Tan' - which despite thinking its title might be a reference to sunbeds, deals with themes of platonic love and adolescence.
Featured is a sample that was recorded of the Hari Krishnas dancing, singing and making music around Covent Garden one New Year's Eve, along with a number of manipulated coughs, splutters and shouts of a tannoy announcer deafening the public through a distorted speaker in London's St Pancras station. It's a bouncy, infectiously bright little track too, that will have you whistling along with.
With another, as yet unveiled, track in the can - 'The Black Maria' - for a later official release, things are looking bright for the tile-shop 'ghost'.
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