Destroying Records Never Sounded So Good

It’s been a long time coming. Lovingly titled after “cut-out” cassettes rescued from their recycling death in China, my new collection of material is out now on all platforms. Written and recorded between homes in Los Angeles, the Catskills and South Florida across the quiet of the last few years, this is a first wave of music and visuals for 2023.

“And in this new era of digital saturation, for Dakou’s cover, Caural worked with Chicago-based design studio Someoddpilot to re-imagine the vinyl LP - another medium somewhere between the graveyard and the garden - as a surrealistic memorial to its progenitive power; after all, physical media is what made Musique Concrète and of course Hip Hop possible. In this way, Dakou both memorializes what’s been lost, and celebrates what’s inevitably always found: redefinition and rebirth.”

Behind the scenes of all-things-Dakou: the death of some records, paint, dyes, and delicious desserts.