“Dark Rhythms” by Hidden Memory: an exploration of his Afro-Venezuelan roots

Venezuelan producer Emmerson Hernández Agrippo reinvents himself as Hidden Memory for his new EP Dark Rhythms,  a brief collection of tracks appealing to the techno, bass music and traditional afro-caribbean rhythmic sensibilities, intertwining venezuela’s tribal heritage with the milimetric BPM of the postmodern era.

“Caly” and “Elemento”, the first two tracks of his authorship make an extensive use of these sonic palettes creating an atmosphere pointed at a magnetic north of catwalks and nightclub comedowns. Then “Puya” signals that sweet spot of perfect intoxication and sensuality around 2 and 3 a.m.  before it gets real late. These creations are accompanied by a couple of remixes tailores by no less than Bok Bok and Tomás Urquieta, each one in the living image of their respective producer.

Each track of this EP resonates with the producer’s influences and bubbles with his enthusiasm for new directions: beats that go straight to your hip and echoes of tukki music, which was prominently developed by the Abstractor collective – that he became a member of in 2010 – along with the more atmospheric, nocturnal and universal sound of Diamante Records, a record label founded in Chile together with Daniel Klauser. A fusion of the local and global aesthetics, which he’s developed from his days in the Babylon Motorhome collective. If this is a new begininng, well, it does carry a mean stride to it.