Impulse

by Okedo

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It was around 4.20pm in Okedo’s home studio in Goa. Ishaan was deep in the hard-drive dusting off some cobwebs. Will was on rolling duty, but it was also his lucky day! He could hardly believe his ears when Ishaan opened up ‘Impulse’ - a track he’d made when he was living in a hot box in Bombay, with his flatmate who made sure the plants were watered everyday. 6hrs into a youtube rabbit hole looking for samples, there appeared a track with beautiful Spanish guitars and serenading female vocals. Ishaan’s first impulse - chop up that beauty and make a 140bpm banger with a floor tom playing cross rhythms of 5/4. Soon, Ishaan found himself looking at a chaotic but blissed-out scene at the sea, ready to be explored by someone else.

Weeks later, Will sat down for a Saturday afternoon session and opened up the project. With no premeditated ideas, he started listening and began thinking about his older brother, who lives in Malta, a small Island in the Mediterranean where he loves to swim. Will also loves to swim, in the lake just opposite his house in Goa. In that moment, he had never felt closer to his brother and missed him terribly.

All of the vocal and instrumental ideas were written and recorded in that session and haven’t changed since. There is definitely plenty of bullshit out there about ‘artists’ and ‘inspiration’, but it almost never works out that way. After all, the track has taken plenty of hard work since, but the boys have preserved the spontaneous ‘Impulse’ behind it as best they could.

Artwork by Sajid Wajid Shaikh

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Are you scared, haunted waters
Will you come, along with me?

Everyday, swimming deeper
To prove a point to no one else

Learning how, I love my brother
I need him now, just as before.

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released June 4, 2020
Ishaan Gandhi & Will James Clark

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Skip-A-Beat is an independent record label & creative community, based in Mumbai, India with a commitment to showcasing the finest in emerging electronic music compositions across the region.

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