Gabe Gurnsey remixes Das Koolies as they release KATAL
Two weeks to the release of debut album, DK.01, a fifth window opens into the new tower of electric sound built by four Super Furry Animals, now enriched with extra collaborative vitamins and minerals.
Das Koolies: Katal + Katal Gabe Gurnsey Remixes – OUT NOW
Debut album: DK.01 - Released Fri 22 September 2023
Vinyl / CD / Digital / Cassette
Strangetown Records in association with Amplify Music
daskoolies.co.uk
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Ebbing, foaming synth waves lap upon warm shores as Das Koolies’ irresistible gazpacho of warped island-techno-kraut-psych delivers new single, Katal, the fifth track to be revealed from their upcoming album DK.01. Heat haze and ocean shimmer meets quaking beats and contagious vocal lines on a track that found the band connecting their own, healed growing pains with those freshly felt by their children.
Kicking the prop away from beneath the trapdoor into their fiefdom of idiosyncrasy and watching DJ, producer and artist, Gabe Gurnsey fall in, Das Koolies have welcomed the former Factory Floor member as the first guest remixer to customise their wayward symphonies. Bringing four alternative versions of Katal to the party, all released at the same time, Das Koolies’ superheated core of sweat-dripping, warehouse to field house music influences are brought to an erupting surface in Gurnsey’s hands.
Tearing days off the calendar ahead of not only the 17-track album, but their first ever live shows, kicking off at Rough Trade East on release date, Fri 22 September 2023, Huw ‘Bunf’ Bunford, Cian Ciarán, Dafydd Ieuan and Guto Pryce deliver Katal as an unlikely, reflective hymn to their past. Having asked three of their, simultaneously 14-year-old children to sum up their existence, Das Koolies found themselves staring down their younger selves.
Having established their direction of travel in spare studio hours, during soundchecks and in rehearsals over their past three decades together, cultivating rumour of a parallel bands existence in interviews, Das Koolies first ever live dates will simultaneously confirm their legend and finally dispel tantalising musical myth. Their THREE in-store appearances at Rough Trade shops to mark the release of DK.01 are confirmed as follows:
Fri 22 Sep – Rough Trade East, London
Mon 2 Oct – Rough Trade Bristol
Tue 3 Oct – Rough Trade Nottingham
Tickets for all dates are available now via DICE. For information on future dates, sign up for updates at daskoolies.co.uk
Katal was produced by Das Koolies in collaboration with Grammy nominated engineer, Tom Forrest (Duke Dumont, Basement Jaxx).
DK.01 will be released in multiple physical formats, including Dinked collectors’ edition recycled coloured vinyl with bonus 7", Bandcamp and Indies recycled coloured vinyl, black recycled double vinyl, CD, recycled cassette and digital.
To be the first to know about upcoming Das Koolies releases and events, connect with the band online at:
Bandcamp: https://daskoolies.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daskoolies
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DasKoolies
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/das.koolies
