Chicken Garaage, a solo 2-track EP by Objekt, explores the fertile terrain around 00s breakbeat and garage. The A-side, ‘Chicken Garaage’, is a playful but poignant ode to early dubstep, garage and Horsepower Productions. First sketched out on tour in Melbourne while eating takeaway chicken karaage, it’s the first outcome of an experiment with a new workflow to produce music with an accelerated approach and more immediacy and expressivity; encouragingly, it has the lowest final version number (55) of any Objekt track in recent memory. B-side ‘Worm Dance’ leans into Hertz’s headsier inclinations – constructed mostly from field recordings made at a lake house outside of Berlin in 2022, it channels mid-00s T++ into a moody, elastic breakbeat roller. credits

released October 25, 2024