09 December 2022 - 0 Comments

Brought to you by Tiger Uncover, from all ends of the North Island comes one unlikely collaboration between Aotearoa’s golden boys Drax Project and Tāmaki Makaurau’s buzziest electronic band Imugi 이무기.

A track of bumping beats, raps and melodies in the underground scene for a hot minute – then open the airways and step into the comforting catharsis of a fresh collaboration that transcends scenes and genre. Drax Project and Imugi present to you with love: Solace.

Now the video filmed by Tutu Productions, directed by Manu Walters, and edited by Ian Bennett is ready for sharing, and reveals an unexpected, newfound comradeship between these two very different musical talents.

Being presented with the opportunity to collaborate with trailblazing genre-mashing pop architects Drax Project, was not particularly in the plans for subversively bold electronic duo Imugi. Now seven years deep in the underground scene, Imugi have been providing extraterrestrial beats, words and melodies for all the misfits in and beyond the buzzing community of Tāmaki Makarau.

Perhaps an unpredicted collaboration, the Drax and Imugi camps easily rolled into a joint flow without forced aural direction nor disagreements. Imugi stayed true to the meditative and experimental nature of their lore: that music connects across all worlds, words and sounds. With this coupling, Imugi’s snappy rap verses juxtaposed with the soft, sentimental lulling of vocals provided by Yery Cho and Drax Project’s Shaan Singh.

Solace contains some of Cho’s most heated verses to date alongside the pop style funk of Drax, and as always is absolutely dripping with Carl Ruwhiu’s aural embellishments and ethereally funky-and-so-smooth production. Inspired by pumping beats, bass and a pinch of house and created with an intention of catharsis and whimsical yearning for a gentler landscape in this world, at the core of the track Imugi deliver their truth to the rhythm of sax n' bass.

Imugi wraps it up with: “Music provides. It weeps and then smiles with you. In the bitter-sweetness of the trials and tribulations of life so far, we share with you our Solace – pumped together by Imugi X Drax.”

WATCH the epic collab process HERE

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