Blog: SMASHCARTEL

Koushik's hyperactive imagination goes into overdrive with the skeletally fractal beat sketches of 'Beeptape'. There's an amazing frisson of styles going on here, running into some 30 tracks of lopsided rhythms, cropped breaks and loopy sounds constructed like an ADD collage of ideas for a mix. One second you're in the midst of a cracking hiphop break, the next we're filtered into an electro-soul bomb, before being swept 5 seconds later into dub ridden moon-scapes. No track lasts longer than 1 minute, meaning your attentions are being constantly shifted and bent in whatever direction he likes, leading to an unpredictable [...]

• Koushik - Beep 29