Takkak Takkak is an energetic new project from Indonesian composer, instrument-builder, and multi-instrumentalist J. "Mo'ong" Santoso Pribadi – one half of Raja Kirik – and Japanese producer Shigeru Ishihara – aka DJ Scotch Egg. Ishihara’s off-the-wall sounds, full of gabberfied Game Boys and ruthless beats, earned him praise from the likes of Lightning Bolt, Boredoms, and Shackleton, who collaborated with him on 2023’s Death By Tickling. On Takkak Takkak (2024), their eponymous debut on label Nyege Nyege, the duo hack together DIY instruments, building a trance-inducing kind of music that swirls with polyrhythmic fervour. Traversing along the lower-end of the frequency spectrum, their music lurks in the bassy deep waters of some sonic swampland – one whose ensnaring sub-bass is macheted by the duo’s intense drums and howling vocals. Pulling from their knowledge of Asian traditional and underground music, Takkak Takkak’s newly imagined sound hints at these histories while forging an entirely new path; drums, bells, electronics, chants, and noise gleefully proliferate. Under their marauding sound is a clearly joyful experimentation: this is undoubtedly the work of two people revelling in the possibilities of sensuous carnage.