Treble Zine premieres the "strange and disorienting" new short film from GANGI

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The following was created on a $5 Mattel Vidster camera purchased on eBay.

I submit, courtesy of Treble, the 12-minute short film for Gangi's just-released three-track EP As Fake Estates, yes!

"Distorted and hazy imagery... a perfect pairing with the group’s songs. Pulsing, dub-inspired rock to psychedelic pop and more abrasive industrial grooves... Accessible melodies with sonic chaos."

What more do you want from outsider art than this, huh? A comfy chair to sit on while you watch? Click for your life!

Buzzbands shares the new warped, mangled version of GANGI's hit "Animals"

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“‘Animals Figure 427’ is revelatory — imagine if 2008 visitors from a distant galaxy got just close enough to Earth to pick up warped snippets of the song ‘Animals.’” Thanks a million to Kevin Bronson at Buzzbands.la for the reveal of another cut from the first official release from GANGI in a decade!

“Animals Figure 427” is from the upcoming 𝘈𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘌𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴, a nod to the duo's name going forward. The limited (100 copies!) vinyl of this release (with etched B-side!) is an actual artifact.

These pieces were pressed, then stored, when the songs were originally recorded and “mangled” ten years ago. They were gone once. They'll be gone again!

Pre-order here. 𝘈𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘌𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 is out August 5 via Office of Analogue and Digital.

Los Angeles duo GANGI to finally release limited-edition vinyl EP pressed and stored more than a decade ago.

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“As Fake Estates” by Los Angeles-based duo GANGI arrives on Aug. 5 via the band’s Office of Analogue and Digital label, streaming on all digital services, and also as a vinyl release with etched B-side.

These very limited vinyl copies are artifacts, having been pressed and stored at the time that the original recordings were made a decade ago, only to be released now.

Previously praised as “dark and rich” (Los Angeles Times) for its “aural collage that seems aimed at warping any expectations” (LA Weekly) or more esoterically, “a soundtrack to cognitive dissonance” (Under the Radar), GANGI’s “electro-psych evolution has been years in the making” according to SPIN, writing in the summer of 2012 about the Los Angeles-based duo’s second album.

Now, “making” is made as GANGI (Matt Gangi and Eric Chramosta) lands in the future with a three-song suite of sonic disturbance from the past.

The material on “As Fake Estates” was recorded around the same time as the 2012 GANGI album gesture is, and is mostly comprised of what Matt Gangi describes as “mangled” versions of songs that date back to the debut GANGI album A, released in 2007. “We sampled and re-constructed our own re-recordings to make most of it,” he explains.

Chramosta terms the new release “a multiple-decade long lineage of assembly, disassembly and reassembly” or the re-examination of “that which had been left to collect digital dust. Two men’s trash can be the same men’s treasure.”

The elements that call back GANGI’s psych-pop past are heavily spliced and fed through myriad electronic components, channeling the anarchy of The Pop Group and melting warble of DJ Screw. Other influences include Black Dice and Salem.